Taiwan Politics News

Taipei, Nov. 20 (CNA) President Ma Ying-jeou said Friday that he hopes for religious exchanges with China when he received a special envoy from Pope Benedict XVI. Jozef Cardinal Tomko, who arrived here Nov. 18, was in Taiwan to attend...

Premier Wu Den-yih stated yesterday that the time is not yet ripe for negotiations for a cross-strait "peace agreement" with the People's Republic of China and said that Beijing must "face the reality" of divided rule in the Taiwan Strait...

Mainland to push normalization of economic relations with Taiwan XI'AN�A Chinese mainland official on Taiwan affairs said here Thursday that the mainland would work actively for "normalization" of economic relations with Taiwan...The results show that signing the agreement would produce...

From Nov. 30, Taiwanese passport holders traveling to New Zealand for less than three months on business, as tourists, to visit friends or relatives or for short-term study, will no longer be required to apply for a visa before they...

US President Barack Obama ended his state visit to China with a call for fresh talks between Beijing and the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama. The US and China also agreed to disagree on Iran, the world economy...

US President Barack Obama Monday pushed for an unshackled Internet and expanded political freedoms as he sought to get around China's media curbs with a webcast town hall event in booming Shanghai. Obama also said the United States and China,...

They are expected to ink four agreements on fishing crew cooperation, agricultural quarantine inspection, industrial product standards, inspection and certification, and the avoidance of double taxation...As to the much-discussed signing of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on cross-strait...

Kaohsiung Mayor Chen Chu said yesterday that a documentary titled “The 10 Conditions of Love,” which focuses on the life of exiled Uighur political activist Rebiya Kadeer, will be publicly screened in Kaohsiung Sept. 22-23 prior to the Kaohsiung Film...

People of Taiwan held a novel protest – they took to the streets of Taipei wearing pyjamas. The protest was against the mismanagement of the recent typhoon Morakot by the Government of President Ma Ying-jeou in which as many as...