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  • Chinese Taipei win mens doubles TT title

    Chinese Taipei's Chen Chien-An and Chuang Chih-Yuan upset Hao Shuai and Ma Lin from China to win the men's doubles title at the World Table Tennis Championships here. Chen and Chuang fought back from one game down to win three in a row but Ma, former Olympic Champion, and Hao Shuai took the fifth before the Chinese Taipei tandem sealed the victory Sunday by taking the sixth 11-8, reports ...

  • Thousands of Taiwanese protest n-power project

    About 10,000 Taiwanese took to the streets here Sunday to protest against further development of nuclear power on the island. The demonstration was launched by an environmental protection organisation to protest the construction of a new nuclear power plant, which will be the fourth plant on the island, Xinhua reported. Protestors waived banners and flags that read messages like "No Nuclear ...

  • The Perfect Balance between Performance and Comfort

    The Mercedes-Benz luxury SUV family has a new member! Today Taiwan Mercedes-Benz launches the brand-new GL 350 with BlueTEC and 4MATIC, the perfect melding of premium materials and careful craftsmanship to create the ultimate in luxury SUVs. Fitted with a spacious full-size interior and a high-efficiency energy-saving engine, the GL 350 is the perfect machine for buyers who want the best for ...

  • Immigration officials to raise safety awareness among Filipinos

    Taipei, May 20 (CNA) Immigration officials will visit places with large Filipino populations in the coming days ahead to raise safety awareness among Filipinos amidst the row between Taiwan and ...

  • ROCs overseas missions making case on Philippines shooting

    China embassies and representative offices have begun making their country's case in the wake of the May 9 fatal shooting of a Taiwanese fisherman by a Philippine government vessel. The overseas missions have written letters to the media or run ads so that the international community can learn about the excessive use of force against an unarmed and unprovocative Taiwanese fishing boat in ...

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Kill Bill: Vol. 1

Kill Bill: Vol. 1

For the past few months, the trailer has promised us that, In the year 2003, Uma Thurman will Kill Bill. It turns out that wont be the case because, as is now widely known, Kill Bill, Quentin Tarantinos expansive, ambitious grindhouse homage, his first film in six years, has been split into two parts, Volume 1 and Volume 2, the latter of which wont bow in theaters until next ... ...

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  • Taiwan exports in April decline 1.1 percent year-on-year

    US $35.69 billion, the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) reported Monday. Exports to major countries and areas, including Europe and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, all dropped last month, with those headed ...

  • Scholar Non-official dialogue over East China Sea initiative

    China Sea Initiative proposed by Taiwan, according to Song Yann-huei, a research fellow at the Institute of European and American Studies of Academia Sinica. The initiative, which calls for all parties that lay territorial claims to the Diaoyutai Islands in the ...

  • Regional scholars urged to find ways to resolve Diaoyutais row

    China Sea, a legal and political science scholar said Monday. Regional scholars should hold seminars to straighten out the historical and legal facts critical to the Diaoyutai Islands issue, said Song Yann-huei, a research fellow at Academia Sinica, Taiwan's top research institute. The Diaoyutai Islands, believed to be sitting on rich oil and natural gas resources, have been under the ...

  • Taiwan make history by claiming men’s doubles title at World Table Tennis Championships

    May 19 - Taiwan's Chen Chien-An and Chuang Chih-Yuan claimed a stunning victory in the men's doubles final at the 2013 World Table Tennis Championships in Paris to take the country's first ever gold medal in the history of the event. The seventh seeds went in as huge underdogs against the Chinese top seeds Hao Shuai and Ma Lin but in a thrilling clash, the duo prevailed in six ...

  • Taiwanese investors want Taiwan PHL gov’ts to sit down and talk

    MARIVELES , Bataan- Taiwanese investors and executives at the Freeport Area of Bataan here on Friday asked both governments of Taiwan and the Philippines to sit down and talk to settle the issue on the alleged shooting by the Coast Guard of a Taiwanese fisherman."The two governments should calm down and both sides should be open to talks to know the truth," said Samson Su, plant ...

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