Australia-based Emergent Resources announced on Friday it would form a joint venture with China Metallurgical Investment to develop its Beyondie Iron project in Western Australia, the Australian...

Taiwan's dollar was little changed after Thursday sliding the most in a month on speculation the central bank intervened to prevent gains from hurting...

TOKYO -- Japan's near-silent hybrid cars have been called dangerous by the vision-impaired and some users, prompting a government review on whether to add a noise-making device, an official said...

NEW YORK -- Wall Street's hopes for a rapid recovery from recession, muddled by disappointing U.S. labor market data, faces a new test in the coming week with the looming corporate earnings...

TAIPEI, Taiwan -- A Taiwanese-Canadian impressionist artist showcases her work in Taipei at the Far Eastern Plaza Hotel from July 1 to 31. The exhibition will kick off with a reception this afternoon...

TAIPEI, Taiwan -- A Taiwan official from a semi-official agency in charge of cross-Taiwan Strait exchanges is scheduled to visit regions adjacent to the Bohai Sea in northern China from July 5-11 to...

LONDON -- PVM Oil Associates, the world's biggest over-the-counter oil brokerage, says it lost nearly US$10 million this week because of unauthorized trades that caused a temporary spike in Brent...

Most financial shares rose due to a report by China Times that China will open 20 percent of its credit card market to Taiwan. “Foreign banks current account for 32 percent of China's credit card...

LONDON -- Michelin-starred British chef and TV personality Gordon Ramsay's restaurants in Britain suffered a 90-percent drop in profits as the recession began to bite, it was revealed Thursday....

NEW YORK -- Stocks fell in Europe and Asia, extending the MSCI World Index's longest weekly losing streak since March, as lower commodity prices dragged down raw-material producers. U.S. markets were...

WASHINGTON -- Three Illinois banks were shuttered Thursday as government regulators proposed new rules for private equity firms seeking to take over failed banks. Regulators shut down John Warner...

The Department of Justice on Thursday said that it has launched a formal antitrust investigation into the proposed settlement over the Google Inc. project to scan millions of books into a digital...

WASHINGTON -- Credit card companies are raising interest rates and fees seven months before new rules go into effect that will limit their ability to do so, much to the irritation of Congress and...

GENEVA -- The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria is facing a budget hole of about US$3 billion as the recession dries up foreign aid, the Geneva-based funding body said on...

TAIPEI, Taiwan -- AxunTek Solar Energy, the first company in Taiwan to have developed cutting-edge CIGS thin-film technology for green energy, is set to upgrade and expand its production of CIGS...

On Monday, for instance, a land parcel along Beijing's Guangqu Road was auctioned off for more than 4 billion yuan (US$585 million) after fierce bidding among major developers from the mainland and...

JAKARTA -- Indonesia's central bank cut its benchmark interest rate by 25 basis points to 6.75 percent Friday in a bid to stimulate the economy as inflationary pressures...

TAIPEI, Taiwan -- CPC Corp., Taiwan, a state-run oil concern, yesterday announced it will raise its domestic sales prices for gasoline and diesel oil products by NT$0.3 and NT$0.6 per liter,...

PANAMA CITY -- President Ma Ying-jeou said in Panama Thursday that he looks forward to an early agreement with the United States on beef imports to...

LONDON/TOKYO -- The U.S. dollar edged up Friday against the euro as fresh worries about the health of the U.S. economy supported the “safe-haven” greenback, dealers...

TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Chunghwa Telecom will officially kick off its new FTTx network services to residents on the Alishan (Mt.Ali) in the southern county of Chiayi on July 8, as it has completed...

TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Guangzhou-based China Southern Airlines is likely to become China's first carrier to open a branch in Taiwan after it submitted Friday three copies of a document necessary for...

With the goal of building Shanghai into a world-class financial hub, the central government is showing renewed interest in inviting foreign-funded firms to be listed in the...

TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Yangmingshan National Park in Taipei City's northern suburbs has solicited volunteers to help with a census to find out the demographic changes of the butterflies found in the...

TAIPEI, Taiwan -- The waiting period for Chinese spouses of Taiwanese citizens to be naturalized remains too long, even after the Legislature passed an amendment last month to shorten the wait,...

LONDON -- International credit rating agency Moody's on Thursday downgraded the “Aaa” rating on Irish government bonds, citing a costly banking-sector bailout and stretched public finances....

TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Local biopharmaceutical firm Adimmune Corp. made public yesterday its intention to become the only supplier in Taiwan of a human vaccine against A(H1N1), a new influenza strain that...

Buyers are finding that the phone, introduced two weeks ago, has trouble making it through a work day without a rest stop at the electrical outlet. It's proving to be something of an Achilles' heel...

NEW YORK -- Manhattan apartment prices dropped for the first time since 2002 in the second quarter as the collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. and Bear Stearns Cos. caught up to property owners...

NEW YORK -- General Motors Corp. may have to wait out the long Independence Day holiday weekend to learn if its bankruptcy plan is moving forward, after U.S. Judge Robert Gerber adjourned a three-day...

New York -- Taiwan's 40 richest individuals or families in 2009 — topped by Cathay Financial Holdings' Tsai brothers — are worth a combined US$55 billion, down from US$77 billion a year ago amid...

KAOHSIUNG, Taiwan -- Six teams of performers that will be cheering for six countries and areas in the upcoming World Games gave a preview of their presentations at a press conference in Kaohsiung...

Although the Chinese stock market has breached the 3,000-point barrier after a six-month bull run, analysts and investors are cautious since they see the rally as being led largely by big-cap stocks...

LONDON -- Oil prices hovered above US$66 a barrel Friday in light holiday trading a day after grim unemployment numbers from the U.S. and Europe sent prices...

BEIJING -- China's power output rose for the first time in eight months in June, as demand was boosted by an unusually hot summer and a tentative economic recovery, state media said...

TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Inviting orphans for a space trip to the moon is one wild dream attempted by a compassionate senior high school graduate taking the English-language test in this year's college...

TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Former President Chen Shui-bian is asking the local media to show “mercy” to his daughter, who in a fit of rage chased after and tried to beat reporters mobbing her for comments...

TAIPEI, Taiwan -- The Cabinet-level Fair Trade Commission (FTC) will move to investigate a major trading dispute resulting from a pricing mistake by Dell Inc. to see if the computer giant's...

The new owner of Nan Shan Life Insurance Co., the Taiwan business unit of the financially troubled AIG, should focus on sustainable growth and look after the rights of employees and clients, said the...

China will accept the principle of proportional arrangement for cross-Taiwan Strait financial-market opening, said Liu Minkang, chairman of China Banking Regulatory Commission (CBRC), on Thursday. In...

Panama City, July 2 (CNA) President Ma Ying-jeou said in Panama Thursday that his government will not consider opening direct flights across the center line of the Taiwan Strait due to national...

Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Legislator Huang Sue-ying (黃淑英) urged the Department of Health (DOH) on Thursday to ban international pharmaceutical companies from exporting genetic data...

Taipei, July 3 (CNA) Taiwan has seen a substantial year-on-year growth in the number of winners of the European Commission's Erasmus Mundus scholarship program, setting a record for the 2009-2010...

The Taiwan Solidarity Union said Chinese state-run firms would invest in Taiwanese industry to steal advanced technology and take it back to...

STAFF WRITER, WITH CNA Saturday, Jul 04, 2009, Page 1 A total of 1,123 teams from 44 countries and areas around the world have registered to take part in a contest to design the best itinerary for...

The exhibition at National Taiwan Democracy Memorial Hall features more than 400 photographs, more than 20 documentaries and many rare...

STAFF REPORTER Saturday, Jul 04, 2009, Page 1 The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) yesterday said that despite government claims that opening the country to Chinese tourists would benefit the...

STAFF REPORTER Saturday, Jul 04, 2009, Page 3 The central government will refrain from increasing the size of local governments to the extent that it would compromise the principle of streamlining...

Bahia Bakari, 12, right, rests on Thursday as she is brought back to France on a French government plane in this picture made a from video broadcast. She is believed to be the only survivor of the...

AP, ISLAMABAD Saturday, Jul 04, 2009, Page 5 US missiles struck a training facility operated by Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud and a militant hide-out yesterday, killing 17 people and...