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  • Do-or-die for India women against Chinese Taipei

    It will be a do-or-die match for Indian women's football team when they face Chinese Taipei in their next group D match of the AFC Women's Asian Cup (qualifiers) here Wednesday. The Indian team despite giving a good account of themselves against Myanmar in their opening game of the have their backs to wall after a 0-2 reversal. Against Chinese Taipei, who pumped in six goals against hosts ...

  • NBI team’s trip to Taiwan on hold

    MANILA--The trip to Taiwan by a team of probers from the National Bureau of Investigation has been put on hold due to a disagreement over the presentation of evidence collected by both sides. A reliable source privy to the negotiations told the Philippine Daily Inquirer in a telephone interview that the disagreement involved ';the turnover of a video to the Taiwanese investigators taken by ...

  • Taiwan market LG launches waterproof smartphone

    Following the steps of Sony Mobile Communications and HTC, LG Electronics has launched a waterproof smartphone, the Optimus GJ. LG expects sales of the waterproof model in the Taiwan market to reach 50,000 units in ...

  • Windows 8 expected to take up 5-8 of global tablet shipments in 2013 say Taiwan makers

    Possibly because Microsoft has lowered licensing rates for Windows 8 for use in tablets, many vendors are developing Windows 8 tablets for launch in the second half of 2013, and thus the operating system is expected to account for 5-8% of all tablets shipped globally in 2013, equivalent to a volume of 10-20 million units, according to Taiwan-based supply chain ...

  • Taiwans anger baffles Filipinos

    The ferocity of the storm of anger that has erupted in Taiwan over the fatal shooting of a Taiwanese fisherman by Filipino coast guards has left the Philippines stunned. Indeed, the death of Hung Shih-cheng on May 9 - which unleashed sanctions against the Philippines and revived a maritime dispute - is continuing to make headlines here. Analysts and media commentators in the country are ...

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The Sound of Music [Blu-Ray]

The Sound of Music [Blu-Ray]

Robert Wises film version of the Rodgers and Hammerstein Broadway musical The Sound of Music is one of the greatest examples of the sometimes massive divide that separates film critics and audiences. When it was released in 1965, it was a smash success, a true cinematic ph ... ...

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  • Feud not between peoples president

    TAIPEI, Taiwan -- President Ma Ying-jeou said yesterday that a row between Taiwan and the Philippines is not a dispute between the two countries' peoples but between the people of Taiwan and the Philippine ...

  • Feud not between Filipinos and Taiwanese says Ma Ying-jeou

    Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou said yesterday that a row between Taiwan and the Philippines is not a dispute between the two countries' peoples but between the people of Taiwan and the Philippine government. The Kuomintang yesterday held its weekly Central Standing Committee meeting in which Foreign Minister David Lin gave a report on the incident. On May 9, a Taiwanese fisherman was ...

  • Philippines to send probe team to Taiwan

    Taipei has approved Manila's request to send investigators to Taiwan to examine evidence and interview witnesses to the May 9 fatal shooting of a Taiwanese fisherman by Filipino coast guards. But Justice Secretary Leila de Lima on Wednesday declined to tell reporters when a team from the National Bureau of Investigation would leave for Taiwan. "It will be very soon but we don't ...

  • Anxious Taiwanese See Independent TV Station at Risk

    A screenshot from an NTD Television broadcast on May 22, about the contract negotiations with Chunghwa Telecom. Taiwanese see the deal's delay, and possible canceling, as a threat to media freedom from China. (Screenshot via The Epoch ...

  • Taiwanese journalists fired over bogus report of anti-Filipino treatment

    A newspaper group has fired a reporter and seen its editor-in-chief resign in the aftermath of a bogus report of an eatery refusing to serve a Filipino customer. The fake story of the now-infamous grub snub played on the fears of Taiwan's Philippine community, some who'd reported real harassment by Taiwanese nationals in the wake of the shooting death of a Taiwanese fisherman by ...

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