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She can sing, act and speak fluent Chinese and Japanese, launching her career in Japanese propaganda films. In spite of her Japanese ancestry, she's passed off to audiences as a Chinese songbird. This confusion of identity and national allegiance is shared...
Tags: China Lover, Yoshiko Yamaguchi, Japanese, Ian Buruma, China Post, American, Japan, Yamaguchi, Yoshiko ᅤフtaka
China's economy expanded more than 7 percent in the first nine months of the year and will certainly surpass the 2009 growth target of 8 percent, a top economic official said Monday. China is due to release official third quarter economic data on Thursday.
Tags: China Vanke, China Post
A coalition of human rights, judicial reform and social movement organizations criticized the Kuomintang government of President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) for "pulling Taiwan's human rights standards down to the level of the People's Republic of China," citing...
Tags: republic of china, Ma Ying-jeou, 'TaTaiwan Dream, human rights, China Post
Taiwan Strait to the Legislative Yuan before the pact is signed, and will send the accord to the legislature for ratification after it is inked. Ma made the remarks at the closing ceremony of the National Congress of the ruling Kuomintang (KMT) in his...
Tags: China Post, cross-Taiwan Strait
Lower levels of testosterone in men will not only lead to erectile dysfunction, but also a heightened tendency to develop osteoporosis, medical experts recently warned. Huang Zhao-shan, a physician with the endocrinology and metabolism department at...
Tags: China Post, Taiwan
Minister of Health Yaung Chih-liang is proposing what he calls betel nut tax to improve public health and increase Taiwan's tax revenue. Yaung broached his idea of a new tax or surtax to lawmakers on the floor of the Legislative Yuan yesterday. “We've...
Tags: Health Yaung Chih-liang, swine flu, flu vaccinations, minister yaung, China Post, betel nut
Compal Electronics Inc. added 3.7 percent to NT$40.55, the highest since Nov. 6, 2007. Holdings Plc upgraded the company to “overweight” from “neutral” on expectation of “robust” demand outlook...It also raised its growth forecast for Taiwan this year,...
Tags: Taiwan Medical Association, Taiwan Hospital Association, Taiwan Stock Exchange Corp., china post, China
More than 34,584 military servicemen around Taiwan and on several outlaying islands were ready to respond to calls for rescue and relief operations during the onslaught of Typhoon Parma, the Ministry of National Defense said yesterday. In a press release,...
Tags: Taiwan, Typhoon Parma, Typhoon Morakot, China Post
The Veterans General Hospital in Taipei gave President Ma Ying-jeou a clean bill of health yesterday. At a joint press conference, the hospital's superintendent and deputy superintendent, together with Ma's personal doctor, said that after a thorough...
Tags: China Post, president ma, upcoming typhoons
A 55-year-old Middlesex County woman’s death, announced today by state officials, was linked to H1N1. The woman had multiple underlying health conditions, according to the state Department of Public Health. If a third of people wind up catching swine...
Tags: China Post, Taiwan, Thomas Willemsen