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  • Teachers workers protest over pension issues

    Taipei, May 25 (CNA) Nearly 30,000 teachers and laborers rallied at Ketagalan Boulevard in front of the Presidential Office in downtown Taipei Saturday to protest the government's initiative to reform the country's pension systems. The demonstrators said the government-proposed pension reform packages are unfair and unjust to salaried middle-class and working-class people and overlook ...

  • Taiwan protests Philippine naval ships presence on Spratlys shoal

    Philippines ' dispatch of naval ships to Renai Shoal, also known as Second Thomas Shoal, in the Spratly Islands. "The MOFA expresses its serious concern and firm opposition" over such a move because the Spratlys are the "sovereign territory of the Republic ...

  • First migrant workers union formed in Taiwan

    Taipei, May 25 (CNA) A migrant workers union composed of 89 Filipino fishermen was founded Saturday in Taiwan's northeastern county of Yilan, becoming the first such union formed in the country, which employs nearly 88,000 workers from ...

  • TransAsia Airways plane returns to Taoyuan due to electrical fault

    Taipei, May 25 (CNA) A TransAsia Airways plane bound for Bangkok returned to Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport Saturday evening after the crew detected an electrical problem that could not be fixed in the air, the airline said. The Taiwanese airline said the plane, an Airbus A330, took off from Taoyuan at 4 p.m. and was scheduled to arrive in Bangkok in three hours and 30 minutes. Crew ...

  • US concerned over Philippines killing of Taiwanese fisherman

    WASHINGTON, May 15 (Xinhua) -- The United States on Wednesday expressed concern about the increasing tensions between the Philippines and China's Taiwan following last week's fatal shooting of a Taiwanese fisherman by the Philippine Coast Guard. At a news briefing, the State Department's acting deputy spokesman Patric Ventrell also urged the two sides to take "all ...

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Heist

Writer/director David Mamet doesn't waste any time getting down to it in his new twisty crime-thriller Heist. Within the first two minutes we are right in the middle of an elaborate robbery of a jewelry store that involves a team of four working together, creating distractions, drugging the employees' coffee, breaking into the store. It's all set to a jaunty, rhythmic musical score that's ... ...

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  • 5 invoice lottery millionaires yet to claim prizes

    TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Five invoice lottery winners who are eligible to claim NT$10 million and three winners who won NT$2 million for the January-February period have not come forward for their prizes yet, the Ministry of Finance (MOF) said ...

  • DPP says no to member voting for primaries

    TAIPEI, Taiwan -- During its party congress yesterday, the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) rejected a proposal for party-member voting in its primaries, maintaining instead the current system which determines party nominations solely on public opinion ...

  • Reformers to urge Ma to relinquish control of KMT

    TAIPEI, Taiwan -- President Ma Ying-jeou is likely to be re-elected to the Kuomintang's (KMT) top post this summer, but internal calls are mounting for him to relinquish the KMT leadership if the ruling party loses seats in next year's local elections, sources ...

  • President responds to wind power operators complaints

    TAIPEI, Taiwan -- President Ma Ying-jeou yesterday promised to consider revising the renewable energy law after a wind power company complained about restrictions on selling electricity directly to ...

  • Teachers civil servants rally against pension reform schemes

    TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Over 10,000 public schoolteachers and civil servants yesterday gathered on Ketagalan Blvd. in front of the Presidential Office in protest of the government's retirement pension reforms, which they claim run counter to social ...

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