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  • Philippine Workers in Taiwan Feel Backlash

    MANILA -- Advocates for Philippine migrant workers say they are concerned about the effects of a hiring freeze Taiwan's government has put in place against the Philippines. The move came less than a week after a Philippine Coast Guard crew admitted shooting at a Taiwanese vessel, killing a fisherman. Statistics from ...

  • Filipinos in Taipei pray for deceased fisherman

    Taipei, May 16 (CNA) Around 20 Filipino nationals participated in a prayer ceremony in Taipei on Sunday to express their apologies for the killing of a Taiwanese fisherman by the Philippine Coast Guard and also urged people in Taiwan not to discriminate against them. The participants gathered in front of St. Christopher's Church and stood in silent tribute to the late Taiwanese fisherman ...

  • Despite row Taiwanese students show support for Filipino workers

    Taipei, May 19 (CNA) A group of Taiwanese students launched a campaign on Sunday to show support for Filipino workers in Taiwan amid growing tensions between the two countries over the killing of a Taiwanese fisherman on May 9. The students held posters and placards during a rally outside a Taipei church where migrant workers from ...

  • Taiwan seeks joint investigation into fishermans death

    InterAksyon.com The online news portal of TV5 TAIPEI - Taiwan Sunday repeated calls for a joint investigation into the killing of a Taiwanese fisherman by Philippine coastguards, an incident which has ignited a major diplomatic dispute. A team of Taiwanese investigators returned to the island Saturday, accusing the Philippine government of failing to honor its agreement to conduct a joint ...

  • Santiago Harassment of Filipinos in Taiwan may warrant MECO abolition

    Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago. INQUIRER FILE PHOTO MANILA, Philippines -- Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago warned on Sunday that injuries sustained by overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) from Taiwanese attackers could be considered "an act of aggression" that could serve as basis for the fold-up of the Manila Economic and Cultural Office (MECO) in Taipei. "The 87,000 overseas ...

Movie Review

American Outlaws

Most of the would-be young movie stars donning cowboy hats and six-shooters in American Outlaws were probably barely in their teen years when Emilio Estevez, Charlie Sheen, Kiefer Sutherland, and Lou Diamond Phillips did the same thing 13 years ago in Young Guns (1988). And, while Young Guns was hardly a masterpiece of the Western genre, at least it had the integrity to maint ... ...

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  • Boracay hotels resorts hit by Taiwan tourist cancellations

    Boracay Photo by Don Lejano/INQUIRER.net ILOILO CITY, Philippines -- Hotels and resorts on Boracay Island have been reeling from the cancellation of bookings of Taiwanese tourists amid the diplomatic row following the killing of a Taiwanese fisherman by Filipino coast guards, according to travel operators. Henry Chusuey, chair of the Boracay Foundation Inc. (BFI), said several resorts catering ...

  • Heavy rains in southern Taiwan to continue CWB

    Taipei, May 19 (CNA) A stationary front that has drenched the southern part of Taiwan over the past three days is expected to bring further downpours across the country until Thursday, the Central Weather Bureau (CWB) said Sunday. The mountainous Taoyuan District in the southern city of Kaohsiung had received 212 millimeters of rain between midnight Saturday and 5 p.m. Sunday and 423mm of rain ...

  • Commercial Times Clarify disparity in cross-strait trade data

    China since the beginning of this year. While Chinese customs data showed substantial growth in cross-Taiwan Strait trade in the first four months of the year, Taiwan's official figures pointed to almost zero growth during the same period. According ...

  • Employers says relations with Filipino workers unaffected by row

    Philippines has not affected their relationships with their Filipino workers, and they did not think the spat would deter them from hiring Filipinos in the future. "They come to work and get off work as usual, and we pay them as we should. I tell them there is nothing to worry about," K. R. Lin, owner of a marble factory in Hualien and chairman of the Taiwan Marble Association, told ...

  • Ang Lee attends Taiwan cinema night in Cannes

    Cannes, France, May 18 (CNA) Taiwan held an event at the Cannes Film Festival on Saturday to promote the country's films, with the attendance of director Ang Lee one of the highlights of the evening. Taiwan's representative to France Michel Lu opened the annual "Taiwan Cinema Party" with a short hand puppet performance about Taiwanese movies and the Cannes Film Festival. The ...

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