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  • As no longer a deprived island environmental sustainability should be valued over any individual business gains in Taiwan

    Query from Taiwan News on April 17:Attention: Taitung County Government Do you agree with claims by environmentalists that the impending Meiliwan Resort development project will do much damage to Shanyuan Bay as well as the way of life of local indigenous people? If not, what is your argument? As of May 21, Taitung County Government has not responded to the press ...

  • Japan releases Taiwan fishing vessel

    Japan impounded his vessel in waters between the two countries. The incident followed the death of Taiwanese fisherman Hung Shih-cheng at the hands of a Philippine government agent on May 9, which led to rising tension and to the imposition of sanctions on Manila by Taiwan. ...

  • Taiwan prosecutors appeal sentence ex-Cabinet official

    TAIPEI (Taiwan News) - Prosecutors filed an appeal against the prison sentence of seven years and four months for former Cabinet Secretary-General Lin Yi-shih, reports said Tuesday. After the Taipei District Court issued the verdict on April 30 and found Lin not guilty on two corruption-related charges, while also throwing out similar charges against his wife, mother and two uncles, public ...

  • Local bourse ends flat as profit taking erases gains

    Taipei, May 21 (CNA) Shares in Taiwan closed little changed Tuesday as investors pocketed the gains they had built up earlier in the session amid fears over a possible pullback ahead of 8,400 points, dealers said. Smartphone camera lens supplier Largan Precision Co. continued an uptrend amid optimism toward its bottom line, while several other high-tech heavyweights remained stagnant after their ...

  • CLSA raises MediaTek target price on brighter Q3 outlook

    Taipei, May 21 (CNA) MediaTek Inc., Taiwan's largest handset chip designer, is expected to post stronger revenue growth in the third quarter thanks to lower-priced chips and improving production capacity, ...

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Juno

Juno

In Juno, a beautifully cracked comedy about teen pregnancy, director Jason Reitman gets exactly right what he mostly failed to do in his directorial debut, the acerbic political satire Thank You for Smoking (2005): the interlacing of the hilarious and the humane. Juno is certainly ... ...

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  • Taiwan registers net outflow of funds for 11th quarter in a row

    Taipei, May 21 (CNA) Funds poured out of Taiwan for the 11th quarter in the row in the first quarter of 2013 as life insurers bought overseas bonds and individuals increased their investments abroad, Taiwan's central bank reported Monday. In its quarterly review of Taiwan's balance of payments, the central bank said the country ran ...

  • Taiwans specialty chemicals output to grow in 2013

    Taipei, May 21 (CNA) The output of Taiwan's specialty chemicals sector will grow marginally in 2013 despite global economic uncertainties, a government report said Tuesday. The report released by the Industry and Technology Intelligence Services said that the output value of the sector is expected to reach NT$678.54 billion ...

  • Philippine president mulling fishery cooperation talks with Taiwan

    Manila, May 21 (CNA) Philippine President Benigno S. Aquino III told local media Tuesday that he is considering discussions with Taiwan on matters related to fishery cooperation to avoid any recurrence of an incident in which a 65-year-old fisherman was shot dead by Philippine marine patrol personnel in overlapping waters of the two countries May 9. Such cooperation would help promote regional ...

  • Moderate earthquakes jolt eastern Taiwan

    Taipei, May 21 (CNA) A total of seven earthquakes struck eastern Taiwan between 12:21 p.m. and 1:16 p.m. Tuesday, with the largest one registering a magnitude of 4.9 on the Richter scale, according to Central Weather Bureau data. No casualties were immediately reported. The quakes, ranging from 3.4 to 4.9 in magnitude, were all centered in Hualien County in eastern Taiwan -- an earthquake prone ...

  • Kempinski Hotels Opens Grand Kempinski Hotel Shanghai

    Official reflagging of the 678-room Gran Meli Hotel Shanghai took place on 15 May 201321th May 2013 - Kempinski Hotels, the oldest European luxury hotel group, has signed an agreement with Shanghai Suncuba Co. Ltd to take over the management of the Gran Meli Hotel Shanghai in Pudong, Shanghai. Opened in February 2010, the hotel was rebranded as Grand Kempinski Hotel Shanghai on 15 May 2013 and ...

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