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  • Taiwans space programme offers tsunami satellite images to aid relief

    Taiwan's national space programme offered Wednesday its satellite images of the damage caused by powerful tsunamis that ravaged Asia at the weekend to affected countries and aid groups for free.The National Space Programme Office (NSPO) normally charges 3,000 euros (4,080 dollars) for each photograph covering an area of 600 square kilometres (240 square miles), the office said.The images ...

  • Taiwan slashes 2013 GDP growth forecast

    Taiwan on Friday slashed its 2013 GDP growth forecast to 2.4 percent from 3.59 percent as the faltering global economic recovery weighs on the island's ...

  • Kin of Taiwanese fisherman unaware of Philippines apology

    The captain of a Taiwanese fishing boat whose father was shot and killed by the Philippine Coast Guard in disputed waters claimed on Friday he and his men were fired upon without provocation, and his family accused the Filipinos of murder. Denying that his boat had encroached on Philippine waters, Hung Yue-chien, 39, insisted at a press conference here that the May 9 incident occurred in a ...

  • China Airlines adding nonstop flights between Taiwan and Hawaii

    China Airlines said it will begin flying two weekly nonstop flights between Taipei and Honolulu, using Airbus A330 aircraft. Seen here is a China Airlines Boeing 777 aircraft. China Airlines will launch regular nonstop flights between Taiwan and Hawaii on June 2, the airline said Friday. The airline will fly nonstop between Taipei and Honolulu International Airport using Airbus A330 aircraft ...

  • Taiwanese entertainer Luo Da You shows no sign of slowing down

    Taiwanese singer-songwriter Luo Da You, 60, shows no sign of slowing down. For a veteran musician who keeps referring himself as ...

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The 10th Victim (La decima vittima) [Blu-Ray]

The 10th Victim (La decima vittima) [Blu-Ray]

The Tenth Victim is one of the great, bizarre curiosity pieces of 60s international cinema at its most flamboyantly groovy and ridiculously satirical. One would be hard-pressed to describe a film as fundamentally absurd and utterly mired in the most blatant cinematic, stylistic ... ...

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  • Kin of killed Taiwanese fisherman asks for PCG video end to harassment of OFWs

    The daughter of the Taiwanese fisherman who died in an alleged ramming and shooting incident in disputed waters in extreme northern Luzon on May 9, has sought access to the Philippine Coast Guard video of the encounter. Tzu-Chien Hong, first-born of Hung Shih-Cheng also asked Taiwanese to not harass Filipino workers in Taipei The first born of the Taiwanese fisherman Hung Shih-cheng who was ...

  • Bosch Taiwan works toward improved sales results in 2013

    "After experiencing significant growth in the past years, our sales were subdued under the circumstances of high economic uncertainty in both the local and global economy in 2012. We aim to improve our sales performance in the current year despite the continuous influence of the considerable economic risks," said Bernd Barkey, managing director of Bosch Taiwan. "Despite the ...

  • University head detained on corruption

    TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Nan Kai University of Technology President Chen Yu-lung (???) was taken into custody yesterday after a judge ruled that there was sufficient evidence of alleged corruption to warrant his ...

  • Lin Join-sane touts close ties with China

    TAIPEI--Lin Join-sane (???), Taiwan's top negotiator with China, said yesterday that relations between Taiwan and China are the best in 60 years and hoped the two sides could set aside disputes and create a win-win situation through close exchanges and ...

  • Nokia reignites patent dispute with HTC

    TAIPEI, Taiwan -- After filing its latest complaints with the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) and a federal court in the state of Delaware, Nokia said Friday it has filed two new complaints in San Diego district court against HTC and accused the company of infringing on nine of its ...

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