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  • Agricultural losses from rain top NT$100 million

    Taipei, May 22 (CNA) Taiwan's agricultural sector has suffered NT$126.7 million in losses as of Wednesday morning from heavy rains that have drenched the island over the past week, according to the Council of Agriculture. The figure includes NT$99.42 million in crop losses, primarily in Pingtung County and Kaohsiung City, and NT$20,000 in losses on both livestock farms and in forests. ...

  • Rainy weather forecast for next seven days

    Taipei, May 22 (CNA) Rainy weather in Taiwan will persist into next week given the current weather front that is lingering over the island and the approach of another front early next week, the Central Weather Bureau predicted Wednesday. Areas around Taiwan can expect showers or thunderstorms on Wednesday and Thursday, while mountainous areas in central and southern Taiwan could see torrential ...

  • Shares of IC inspection tool supplier play catch-up with Largan

    Taipei, May 22 (CNA) Shares of Hermes Microvision Inc., one of Taiwan's leading semiconductor inspection tool and equipment suppliers, extended their gains Wednesday morning as they played catch-up with shares of Largan Precision Co., dealers said. As Largan shares pulled back after rising sharply a day earlier, investors moved their funds to Hermes shares, which had lagged behind the ...

  • China Times Taiwan China need to discuss regional cooperation

    China Sea Peace Initiative" put forth by Taiwan that calls for joint development of maritime resources despite differences over territorial issues. The recent diplomatic row between Taiwan and ...

  • French chamber in Taiwan moves into new business center

    Taipei, May 22 (CNA) The France Taiwan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCIFT) has moved into a new business center and will hold an opening ceremony for the new office on May 24, the group said Wednesday. Set in central Taipei, the new 450-square-meter center will provide a flexible and cost-effective office solution, the group said on its official website. Established in 1991, the CCIFT is a ...

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The Truman Show [Blu-Ray]

The Truman Show [Blu-Ray]

Peter Weir's masterful The Truman Show is a prophetic comedy of ideas that hit all too close to home in our media-savvy, television-obsessed, celebrity-enthralled times. In the movie's bizarre, but ultimately tenable fantasy world, a young man named Truman Burbank (Jim Carre ... ...

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  • ANZ maintains Taiwans economic growth forecast at 3.6

    Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Ltd. (ANZ) has maintained its forecast that Taiwan's economic growth will reach 3.6 percent in 2013 despite the country's lackluster first quarter and successive declines in export orders. In its latest research note, ANZ said that while Taiwan's export orders fell in April for the third consecutive month, the decline was smaller than in the ...

  • Taipei journo made-up story on anti-Filipino sentiment

    (56 mins ago) A new reporter in Taiwan has been sacked for fabricating a story about a diner refusing to serve Filipinos amid a diplomatic row over the recent killing of a Taiwanese fisherman, his company said today. The journalist, identified only by his family name Cheng, wrote on his Facebook page that he ';witnessed'' a diner owner refusing to sell boxed lunches to two men ...

  • Taiwan reporter sacked over Philippine hoax

    Chen Wen-chi (left), from Taiwan’s Ministry of Justice of the Department of International and Cross-Strait Legal Affairs, listens as Chen Ming-tang, deputy minister of Taiwan’s Justice Ministry, speaks while holding a picture showing a bullet found in the fishing vessel after it was attacked by Philippine coastguards, killing a Taiwanese fisherman, during a press conference in Taipei ...

  • IHT Rendezvous Tensions Flare in Asian Seas Now Involving Taiwan

    Residents of Taichung in Taiwan, led by a Taiwanese lawmaker, Lu Shou-yen (center, in purple shirt,) chant slogans demanding an apology from the Philippine government for the death of a Taiwanese ...

  • Taiwan April unemployment down says DGBAS

    Taiwan had 464,000 jobless citizens in April 2013, equivalent to an unemployment rate of 4.07%, which represents a drop by 0.10 percentage point on month and 0.03 percentage point on year, according to the Directorate-General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics ...

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