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U.S. and Chinese Presidents Barack Obama and Hu Jintao announced Tuesday a package of measures designed to strengthen U.S.-Chinese cooperation on clean energy. Hu said the two countries' corresponding officials signed agreements to enhance "cooperation on climate change, energy and...

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...

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...

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...

In recent years, the Kinks frontman has lamented the indefinite hiatus of the band he led for decades, but as of late he's responded with renewed energy and ambition unknown to many of his surviving contemporaries from rock's original British...

The news that a Hong Kong-based financial group reportedly sold 30 percent of its recently acquired stake in Nan Shan Life Insurance Co., Ltd. to Chinatrust Financial Holding would complicate a government review, a Cabinet official said Wednesday.

TSMC, UMC report July sales, weakened by lagging demand Both foundries are bolstering for a rough Q3, as both expect sales to be lower than is seasonally expected. By Ann Steffora Mutschler, Senior Editor -- Electronic News, 8/8/2008 Hsinchu, Taiwan-based...

Taiwan's stock exchange for announcing a NT$177 billion (US$5.5 billion) takeover by Innolux Display Corp. a day after denying it was in merger talks. The exchange is examining whether the company misled investors, spokesman Stanley Chu said by phone yesterday....