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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 ...

  • Quarterly average earnings lowest in four years

    TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Average monthly earnings (including regular and irregular earnings) in March were NT$41,652, a 0.63-percent increase compared with 2012, according to a report released today by the Directorate General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics ...

  • Journalists lose jobs after printing bogus report of Filipino grub snub

    TAIPEI, Taiwan -- 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 ...

  • Military sends minehunter to locate black box

    TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Taiwan's military yesterday sent a mine clearance ship to sea off Northwestern Taiwan to locate the black box of a Mirage 2000-5 fighter jet that crashed into the Taiwan Strait Monday during a regular training ...

  • Chip-maker UMC sets up RandD center in Singapore

    TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Energized by the strong uptake of smartphones and tablet PCs, Taiwan's number two contract chip-maker UMC has spent US$110 million in Singapore to spearhead the company's R&D and manufacturing for advanced specialty process ...

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Millions

Millions

In Danny Boyle's whimsical modern fable Millions, two young boys who have recently lost their mother are the recipients of a huge bag of money -- 256,000 British pounds, in fact -- that literally falls from the sky. It is originally found by 7-year-old Damien (Alexander Nathan Etel), the ... ...

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  • Ex-pres excluded from five-year probation

    TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Former President Chen Shui-bian (???) would be exempted from the Democratic Progressive Party's (DPP) five-year probation if he wished to rejoin the party, said General Secretary Lin Hsi-yao (???) after the Central Standing Committee meeting ...

  • FSC defends plan for trader margin

    TAIPEI, Taiwan -- The Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC, ???) yesterday defended its plan to impose margin requirements for day traders, during a Legislative Yuan ...

  • TAIEX edges higher as traders await testimony from US Feds Bernanke

    TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Shares in Taiwan closed slightly higher Wednesday as investors locked in gains they posted earlier in the session before U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke testified before Congress, dealers ...

  • Development Bank of Singapore pledges commitment in serving Taiwans SMEs

    TAIPEI, Taiwan -- The Development Bank of Singapore Limited (DBS, ????) yesterday indicated its wish to continue the company's extensive efforts in serving the needs of Taiwan's small- to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), during a recent press ...

  • Judgment day The fate of the TAIEX barrier looks set to come next Friday

    TAIPEI, Taiwan -- A new version of the stock gains tax is expected to go through a third reading next Friday at the earliest, however without help from the DPP on its passage and without the upward movement of large-cap stocks, the 8,500-point ceiling may remain an irremovable ...

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