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  • Deutsche Bank to list yuan-denominated bonds on OTC market

    Taipei, June 20 (CNA) The GreTai Securities Market (GTSM) announced Thursday that Deutsche Bank will list its Chinese yuan-denominated bonds on the local over-the-counter (OTC) market the next day. The listing will make the German banking group the first foreign institution to issue yuan-denominated bonds in Taiwan, and the fifth enterprise to sell yuan debt on the local market, the GTSM said. ...

  • Taiwan thanks U.S. House for legislation

    Taipei, June 20 (CNA) Taiwan is grateful to the U.S. House of Representatives for supporting the expansion of bilateral exchanges between high-level governmental officials and the sale of F-16 C/D fighter jets to Taiwan, a foreign ministry official said Thursday. The House on June 14 passed the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2014, which included amendments to allow Taiwanese ...

  • Taipei among worlds top 20 tourist destinations

    Taipei, June 20 (CNA) Taipei has been ranked 18th in a survey of the world's top travel destinations in terms of number of visitors, according to a survey conducted by MasterCard Worldwide. Taipei moved up two places from last year to rank behind ...

  • `One China not relevant to fishery talks with Philippines MOFA

    Philippines and have been proceeding without disruption," Kao said. She was responding to press inquiries about the government's stance toward a Philippine media report ...

  • Lawmakers urge government to implement refugee law

    Taipei, June 20 (CNA) Lawmakers across political lines urged the government Thursday to establish laws that protect the rights of refugees and improve their living conditions in Taiwan. Kuomintang lawmaker Chen Shei-saint, Democratic Progressive Party Legislator Yu Mei-nu and Tien Chiu-chin expressed hope that a refugee protection bill could be put on the top of the legislative agenda for the ...

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Lara Croft: Tomb Raider

When are they going to figure it out? How many bad movies based on popular video games does Hollywood have to make before they finally figure out that animated computer games, especially ones that have no real point besides shooting things, don't translate well to big-screen feature films? ...

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  • Bill on cross-strait offices boycotted at legislature

    Taipei, June 20 (CNA) An initial review of a bill that will allow the establishment of Taiwanese and Chinese representative offices in each other's territory was boycotted by opposition parties at the Legislature Thursday. Lawmakers from the Democratic Progressive Party, the People First Party and the Taiwan Solidarity Union occupied the podium to prevent the Internal Administration ...

  • Taiwans Hon Hai to hire 3000 after Mozilla tie-up

    Taiwan's Hon Hai Precision said Thursday it aims to hire up to 3,000 new employees to develop devices and software for Mozilla's Firefox operating system as it seeks to diversify from its core manufacturing ...

  • Offices important part of cross-strait infrastructure president

    China in each other's territories will be "neutral" organizations that will be an important part of the infrastructure in cross-Taiwan Strait relations. Ma said the offices will show the need for the two sides to manage and help the 8 million people who travel across the strait every year and trade activities that are ...

  • Irregular lifestyle blamed for skin aging

    Taipei, June 20 (CNA) Staying up late and poor handling of stress could aggregate skin aging, local doctors warned Thursday. Cheng Hui-wen, a dermatologist at the Shu-Tien Urology and Ophthalmology Clinic, said a 35-year-old patient of hers showed symptoms of dark spots, deepening lines and wrinkles that are more common among older people. Upon examining the patient's lifestyle, Cheng found ...

  • U.S. dollar closes higher on Taipei forex

    Taipei, June 20 (CNA) The U.S. dollar rose against the Taiwan dollar Thursday, gaining NT$0.20 to close at the day's high of NT$30.160. Turnover ...

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