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  • Do-or-die for India women against Chinese Taipei

    It will be a do-or-die match for Indian women's football team when they face Chinese Taipei in their next group D match of the AFC Women's Asian Cup (qualifiers) here Wednesday. The Indian team despite giving a good account of themselves against Myanmar in their opening game of the have their backs to wall after a 0-2 reversal. Against Chinese Taipei, who pumped in six goals against hosts ...

  • Taiwan Said to Curb Bullish Currency Bets as Yen Hits 2008 Low

    Taiwan tightened limits on local banks' bullish bets on the local dollar, boosting efforts to rein in the exchange rate and defend export competitiveness after the yen tumbled to the lowest since 2008. The Central Bank of the Republic ...

  • Fitch Affirms Taiwans Hua Nan Commercial Bank at BBB+Stable

    Fitch: Recession Concern Dampens European Investor Sentiment An increasing number of investors expect fundamental credit conditions will deteriorate across sectors, according to a Fitch Ratings investor survey. The more circumspect sentiment was most notable for the sovereign segment, where the proportion of survey respondents anticipating worsening conditions more than doubled to 55%, from 24% ...

  • President promises regular coastguard patrols to protect fishermen

    Philippines maritime patrol personnel. Ma said, however, that Taiwan's Coast Guard operations will not involve any military drills. The government will make every effort to protect its fishermen, "anytime, anywhere," as long as they are operating in the country's exclusive economic zone, Ma said at a Kuomintang (KMT) meeting in Taipei where he was briefed by Foreign Minister ...

  • Data center sector to post strong growth in 2013 supplier

    Taipei, May 22 (CNA) French engineering company Schneider Electronic SA expressed optimism Wednesday about the outlook for Taiwan's data center sector thanks to rising demand for cloud computing-based applications. Yicai Qiao, country president of Schneider Electronic Taiwan Co., forecast that the output of local data centers will grow 7 percent in 2013 from a year earlier, despite a weak ...

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Lost in Translation

Lost in Translation

Sofia Coppolas Lost in Translation is a beautiful, lyrical cinematic ode to lost souls finding each in an unlikely place. In this case, it is a burnt-out movie star and a lonely young newlywed who strike up a relationship in downtown Tokyo, where they both feel isolated and alone, spiritually and culturally. The location setting in Tokyowith its technologically overdetermined neon gaudines ... ...

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  • FOCUS | China may be fanning flames of Taiwanese anger with PH - expert

    InterAksyon.com The online news portal of TV5 MANILA, Philippines - Since the shooting of a Taiwanese boat that killed a 65-year-old fisherman off Batanes on May 9, there has been no confirmed incident of violence against Filipinos in Taiwan that is clearly linked to it, boosting the possibility-as raised by an expert-- that Beijing may be fanning the heat as a test case while it continues its ...

  • Taiwanese official demands Manila apology for fishermans death

    Philippines should officially apologize for the May 9 fatal shooting of a Taiwanese fisherman by one of its government vessels, a Taiwanese official said in an article contributed to the Wall Street Journal Tuesday. Recent Taiwanese naval and coast guard drills in the ...

  • Output of Taiwans petrochemical sector down 8 in Q1

    Taipei, May 22 (CNA) The production value of Taiwan's petrochemical sector for the first quarter of this year fell about 8 percent from a year earlier as a result of falling product prices on weaker global demand, according to a government report released Wednesday. The Industry and Technology Intelligence Services (ITIS), a research institute under the Ministry of Economic Affairs, said ...

  • Donations reach families of fishermen killed in Philippine patrols

    Philippines on Wednesday offered a total of NT$5 million in donations to the families of two Taiwanese fishermen who were shot dead by Philippine marine patrol personnel over the past seven years. The donations, split evenly, were delivered by Jose Kho, chairman of ...

  • Man confesses to fabricating rumor on Filipino mistreatment

    Taipei, May 22 (CNA) A Lihpao Daily reporter confessed to police Wednesday that he never personally saw a Filipino denied service at a cafeteria in Taipei amid an onging diplomatic standoff between the two countries. The reporter, identified only by his surname Cheng, wrote in a May 14 Facebook post that a Filipino worker was refused service by a cafeteria owner who was angered by the May 9 ...

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