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  • President pitches for wind power generation

    Ma Ying-jeou said Saturday that the government will continue to promote wind power generation as it seeks a diversified power supply and independent power generation. Ma made the remarks during a tour of a wind power generation plant operated by state-run Taiwan Power Co. at the Changhua Coastal Industrial Park to find out more about wind power generation and hold talks with industry ...

  • New HTC One first HTC pro-certified device in U.S.

    HTC pro Certified device in the United States. The certification means that the device meets security and encryption standards that make it a good enterprise solution for companies with security concerns. As the ...

  • Sales of listed companies in Q1 down 3.4 percent

    Taipei, May 25 (CNA) Sales generated by companies listed on Taiwan's main board and the over-the-counter (OTC) market for the first quarter of this year fell 3.4 percent from a year earlier to NT$6.07 trillion ...

  • Chiayi-Shizuoko charter flights launched

    China Airlines (CAL) Saturday with 158 passengers aboard. CAL Chairman Sun Huang-hsiang noted that Chiayi Airport became an international airport last December and said that his company is proud to provide the maiden charter flight. He added that a charter flight would take off from Shizuoka to Chiayi later in the day, with another two-way charter flight scheduled for May 29. CAL and the Chiayi ...

  • Source of banned industrial starch in food found

    Taipei, May 25 (CNA) A Taipei-headquartered chemical manufacturer and supplier, UPC Technology Corp., has been tracked down as a source of an industrial starch banned from use in food but recently found in tapioca balls that are used in bubble tea drinks. So far, all the evidence indicates UPC Tech to be the main source, Kang Jaw-jou, director-general of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ...

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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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  • First Banks Shanghai branch to start yuan transactions

    Taipei, May 25 (CNA) First Commercial Bank, the banking flagship of First Financial Holding Co., said Saturday that its Shanghai branch is scheduled to launch Chinese yuan-denominated transactions such as deposits, lending and remittances May 27. First Bank said the Shanghai branch secured approval from ...

  • Taiwan sets new condition for NBI team’s visit

    Philippine special envoy Amadeo Perez (Center) AFP FILE PHOTO TAIPEI, Taiwan--Taiwanese authorities issued additional conditions on Saturday that could possibly delay further a trip here by a team from the National Bureau of Investigation to complete its investigation into the circumstances around the killing by the Philippine Coast Guard of a Taiwanese fisherman in disputed waters off Batanes, ...

  • Taiwan eyes closer business ties with France

    Paris, May 24 (CNA) Taiwan's representative to France, Michel Lu, visited the Paris Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCIP) Friday to promote economic exchanges, eyeing closer business ties between the two countries.Lu, along with the secretary of the Taipei representative office's economics division, Liang Chia-chen, met with Pierre-Antoine Gailly, president of the CCIP, and Gilles ...

  • Taiwan DPP congress sticks with candidate selection method

    TAIPEI (Taiwan News) - At a congress Saturday, the opposition Democratic Progressive Party rejected the reintroduction of voting by party members to select election candidates while also ...

  • Taiwan teachers protest against pension reform

    TAIPEI (Taiwan News) - Tens of thousands of teachers protested outside the Presidential Office Building in Taipei Saturday against the government's pension reform plans. The teachers union organizing the event said the administration of ...

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