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  • Property transactions in Taiwan on the rise in Q1

    Taipei, May 18 (CNA) Residential and commercial property transactions rose substantially in Taiwan in the first quarter because of greater transparency in the market, the government said Saturday. Total property transactions increased 24.2 percent in the first three months of the year from the same period last year, according to statistics released by the Ministry of the Interior, after falling ...

  • HTC remains in smartphone brand top 10 in Q1 Digitimes

    HTC Corp. remained one of the world's top 10 smartphone makers in the first quarter despite sliding sales figures, according to local market research firm Digitimes Research. In its latest survey, Digitimes ...

  • Taiwan completes negotiations with Singapore on FTA signing expected

    Taipei (The China Post/ANN) - Taiwan and Singapore have concluded negotiations on a free trade agreement and both sides are expected to officially sign the deal soon, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) said yesterday. Taiwan and Singapore have "substantively concluded" negotiations for the agreement entitled "Agreement between Singapore and the Separate Customs Territory of ...

  • Taiwan indigenous peoples protest against nuclear energy

    TAIPEI (Taiwan News) - Members of Taiwan's indigenous peoples protested against nuclear energy outside of the Presidential Office Building Saturday in preparation for a larger protest scheduled for Sunday, the eve of ...

  • Taiwan-New Zealand trade talks nearing completion

    Taipei, May 18 (CNA) Taiwan and New Zealand are closing in on a free trade deal, with substantive talks possibly being completed in June, the Ministry of Economic Affairs said Friday. "We are working hard and there's a chance" substantive talks can be completed in the first half of the year, a ministry official said. The official's optimistic outlook on a free trade deal with ...

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Solaris (1972) [Blu-Ray]

Solaris (1972) [Blu-Ray]

Andrei Tarkovskys Solaris is a pulsating, frustrating, enigmatic science fiction masterpiece, a film of great metaphysical weight that demands multiple viewings and an open mind. It is a brooding, introspective work in which the vast reaches of space seem restricted in contrast to the ... ...

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  • Taiwan says Philippine attack showed intent to kill

    Philippines May 18 (CNA) Philippine coast guard personnel intended to kill the crew of an unarmed Taiwanese fishing boat because their shots were targeted at the boat's engine room where the crew was trying to take cover, an official said Saturday. A Taiwanese investigation report on the May 9 incident found most of the bullet holes on the boat near the engine room, said Chen Wen-chi, the ...

  • Taiwan investigators on way back from Philippines

    Philippines empty-handed Saturday after the authorities there refused to cooperate in the investigation into the May 9 shooting of a Taiwanese fisherman. The death of Hung Shih-cheng, 65, on a fishing trawler in an area where the two countries' exclusive economic zones overlap raised tension between the two countries to an unprecedented level, with Taipei issuing a total of eleven types of ...

  • Taiwanese fisherman killed in cold blood ROC envoy to U.S.

    Philippines ' shooting of a Taiwanese fisherman cold-blooded and presented a diagram of where bullet holes were located on the fisherman's boat to back his claim. At a press conference held in Washington D.C., Republic ...

  • Taiwan GDP growth may not reach 3 in 2013 economist

    Taipei, May 18 (CNA) Taiwan's economy may not be able to grow 3 percent in 2013 after the country reported much worse-than-expected gross domestic product (GDP) growth for the first quarter of the year, an economist said Saturday. Ray Chou, a research fellow with the Institute of Economics of Academia Sinica, said that he was not upbeat about the country's economic climate and did not ...

  • Anti-Manila rage puts Taiwan on high alert

    (MENAFN - Arab News) Taiwan's leader yesterday called for calm and promised to protect Filipinos on the island amid widespread anger at the Philippines over the killing of a Taiwanese fisherman.Anti-Manila sentiments mounted after a 65-year-old fisherman was shot dead last week by Philippine coastguards who said his vessel intruded into Philippine waters.Taiwanese media have reported an ...

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