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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 ...

  • Taiwanese official demands Manila apology for fishermans death

    Philippines should officially apologize for the May 9 fatal shooting of a Taiwanese fisherman by one of its government vessels, a Taiwanese official said in an article contributed to the Wall Street Journal Tuesday. Recent Taiwanese naval and coast guard drills in the ...

  • Output of Taiwans petrochemical sector down 8 in Q1

    Taipei, May 22 (CNA) The production value of Taiwan's petrochemical sector for the first quarter of this year fell about 8 percent from a year earlier as a result of falling product prices on weaker global demand, according to a government report released Wednesday. The Industry and Technology Intelligence Services (ITIS), a research institute under the Ministry of Economic Affairs, said ...

  • Donations reach families of fishermen killed in Philippine patrols

    Philippines on Wednesday offered a total of NT$5 million in donations to the families of two Taiwanese fishermen who were shot dead by Philippine marine patrol personnel over the past seven years. The donations, split evenly, were delivered by Jose Kho, chairman of ...

  • Man confesses to fabricating rumor on Filipino mistreatment

    Taipei, May 22 (CNA) A Lihpao Daily reporter confessed to police Wednesday that he never personally saw a Filipino denied service at a cafeteria in Taipei amid an onging diplomatic standoff between the two countries. The reporter, identified only by his surname Cheng, wrote in a May 14 Facebook post that a Filipino worker was refused service by a cafeteria owner who was angered by the May 9 ...

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Whip and the Body (La frusta e il corpo) [DVD]

Whip and the Body (La frusta e il corpo) [DVD]

Mario Bava began his career as a cinematographer on some 40 films before taking his place in the director's chair for the first time with 1960's Black Sunday (La maschera del demonio). Over the next 20 years, he became one of the most influential horror directors in the second half of the 20th century, although the breadth of his influence has only recently been acknowledged. Co ... ...

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  • Philippines makes mutual legal assistance request to Taiwan

    Philippines has filed a letter of request for mutual legal assistance to Taiwan for a joint probe into the May 9 shooting death of a Taiwanese fisherman by a Philippine government vessel in overlapping waters of the two countries' exclusive economic zones. The Ministry of Justice was expected to receive the letter Wednesday through the Manila Economic and Cultural Office (MECO), ...

  • MECO chairman says he never linked shooting one China policy

    Taipei, May 22 (CNA) The chairman of the Manila Economic and Cultural Office (MECO) said Tuesday in a letter to Taiwan's Foreign Ministry that he never mentioned Manila's ...

  • PH thanks Taiwan for call to citizens not to harm Filipino workers

    MANILA, Philippines — In a sign of easing tensions, President Benigno Aquino III's expression of gratitude to Taiwan when it urged its citizens not to harm Filipinos was received well by the Taiwanese leaders, Malacaang said on Wednesday. After talking with his counterparts in Taiwan, Amadeo Perez, chair of the Manila Economic and Cultural Office (Meco), on Wednesday relayed the ...

  • Mainland to ensure continuity of Taiwan policy

    The Chinese mainland will ensure the continuity of its policies towards Taiwan and work to make new achievements in the development of cross-strait relations, top political advisor Yu Zhengsheng said on Wednesday.While meeting a visiting delegation of Taiwan's United Daily News Group(UDN), Yu, chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, ...

  • Philippines investigation team on shooting incident to leave for Taiwan

    The Philippines will soon send an investigation team to Taiwan to gather evidence on the death of a Taiwanese fisherman killed by the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG), Justice Secretary Leila de Lima said Wednesday."The team will be leaving very soon," de Lima told reporters Wednesday, but she would not confirm when the team would exactly leave for Taipei, explaining that is because the ...

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