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  • Talk of the Day -- HTC Chair 46th most powerful woman Forbes

    HTC Corp., ranks 46th in the Forbes Magazine's newly released list of the world's 100 most powerful women. Wang moves up 10 notches on the Forbes' latest global rankings. In 2012, the 54-year-old business executive, ranked 56th. The noted U.S. financial publication applies three metrics -- money, media presence and impact -- in determining the rank of each influential woman on the ...

  • Taiwanese fishermen urge fishery deal with the Philippines

    Taipei, May 23 (CNA) Taiwanese fishermen and representatives of fishermen's associations on Thursday urged Taiwan's government to start talks on a fishery agreement with ...

  • Taipei rebuffs Manila anew

    Justice Secretary Leila De Lima. INQUIRER FILE PHOTO TAIPEI--Taiwan on Wednesday set aside a Philippine request for legal assistance, delaying the completion of Manila's investigation of the fatal shooting of a Taiwanese fisherman by Filipino coast guards two weeks ago. The Taiwanese Ministry of Justice said it declined the Philippine request for the time being because Manila continued to ...

  • Slain Taiwanese was ‘good to Filipino fishermen’

    Taiwanese fisherman Hung Shih-cheng’s boat, the Kuang Ta Hsing No. 28, is checked by Taiwanese officers after arriving at Liuqiu port in Pingtung County, southern Taiwan, Saturday, May 11, 2013. Taiwanese boat owner Steven Liao said the damage to the Guang Ta Hsin 28 costs around NT$8 million (P11 million). AP PHOTO TAIPEI--Filipinos in Pintung county, where the Taiwanese fisherman ...

  • Luxury tax to be amended in June minister

    TAIPEI, Taiwan -- The so-called "luxury tax," aimed at preventing speculative real estate investments, will be reviewed for possible changes in June, Finance Minister Chang Sheng-ford (???) said ...

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Mon Oncle [DVD]

Mon Oncle [DVD]

Jacques Tati's Mon Oncle is visually structured around two disparate sections of Paris, which Tati uses to illustrate his contempt for what he saw as the increasingly sterile and lifeless trajectory of modernization. ...

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  • City councilor claims Taipei covers up sexual harassment

    TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Taipei City Councilor Lee Ching-yuan (???) yesterday claimed that the Taipei City Government attempted to cover up the sexual harassment case of a city government ...

  • Defense chief apologizes for jet crashes

    TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Defense Minister Kao Hua-chu (???) yesterday apologized to the public over two recent Air Force fighter crashes that occurred within five days of each ...

  • Taiwans Air Force steps up patrols in south region

    TAIPEI--The Air Force will increase its patrols over waters around the country's southern coast, Air Force Commander Gen. Liu Chen-wu said ...

  • Students of European school issued French-inspired pedestrian licenses

    TAIPEI, Taiwan -- City sidewalks just got a whole lot safer. Students of the Taipei European School's French Section were presented yesterday with their "permis pieton," the French term for pedestrian license, by the French Institute in Taipei (IFT), signifying their mastery of road safety and ...

  • MOJ Philippines make legal headway

    TAIPEI, Taiwan -- The Ministry of Justice (MOJ) yesterday said in regard to the shooting death of a Taiwanese fisherman that the ministry and the Philippines have reached a consensus to conduct indirect questioning of relevant ...

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