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  • Heavy rains in southern Taiwan to continue CWB

    Taipei, May 19 (CNA) A stationary front that has drenched the southern part of Taiwan over the past three days is expected to bring further downpours across the country until Thursday, the Central Weather Bureau (CWB) said Sunday. The mountainous Taoyuan District in the southern city of Kaohsiung had received 212 millimeters of rain between midnight Saturday and 5 p.m. Sunday and 423mm of rain ...

  • Commercial Times Clarify disparity in cross-strait trade data

    China since the beginning of this year. While Chinese customs data showed substantial growth in cross-Taiwan Strait trade in the first four months of the year, Taiwan's official figures pointed to almost zero growth during the same period. According ...

  • Employers says relations with Filipino workers unaffected by row

    Philippines has not affected their relationships with their Filipino workers, and they did not think the spat would deter them from hiring Filipinos in the future. "They come to work and get off work as usual, and we pay them as we should. I tell them there is nothing to worry about," K. R. Lin, owner of a marble factory in Hualien and chairman of the Taiwan Marble Association, told ...

  • Ang Lee attends Taiwan cinema night in Cannes

    Cannes, France, May 18 (CNA) Taiwan held an event at the Cannes Film Festival on Saturday to promote the country's films, with the attendance of director Ang Lee one of the highlights of the evening. Taiwan's representative to France Michel Lu opened the annual "Taiwan Cinema Party" with a short hand puppet performance about Taiwanese movies and the Cannes Film Festival. The ...

  • Tablet prices to continue sinking in 2013 researcher

    Taipei, May 19 (CNA) The global tablet computer market will continue to witness a price war this year as more brand companies jump onto the affordable tablet bandwagon, according to a local research company. Worldwide tablet shipments in 2013 are forecast to grow by 63.9 percent from one year ago to 254 million units, including 73 million Apple iPads, 82.4 million non-iPad models from brand ...

Movie Review

American Outlaws

Most of the would-be young movie stars donning cowboy hats and six-shooters in American Outlaws were probably barely in their teen years when Emilio Estevez, Charlie Sheen, Kiefer Sutherland, and Lou Diamond Phillips did the same thing 13 years ago in Young Guns (1988). And, while Young Guns was hardly a masterpiece of the Western genre, at least it had the integrity to maint ... ...

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  • Taiwan investigation team to revisit Philippines soon

    Philippines to investigate the shooting death of a Taiwanese fisherman by a Philippine government patrol boat, after both sides finalize details on how they will cooperate, Foreign Minister David Lin said Sunday. Both sides have to establish a communication mechanism and agree on the details of cooperation before Taiwan again sends an investigation team, Lin added. Lin's remarks came one ...

  • Health minister arrives in Geneva for WHA

    Geneva, May 19 (CNA) Taiwan's Health Minister Chiu Wen-ta arrived in Geneva Saturday to attend this year's World Health Assembly (WHA), the decision-making arm of the World Health Organization (WHO). Chiu told reporters after his arrival that he will speak at 19 technical sessions during the 66th WHA, which is being held from May 20-28. It will be the largest number of technical ...

  • Filipinos in Taiwan told to limit movement

    Presidential Spokesperson Abigail Valte. INQUIRER FILE PHOTO MANILA, Philippines – As violence against Filipinos escalated, Philippine officials have advised the thousands of workers to ';limit their movement'' in Taiwan amid the backlash over the killing of a Taiwanese fisherman by the Philippine Coast Guard in Philippine waters. Antonio Basilio, resident representative ...

  • Philippines waiting for Taiwan anger to cool

    Amadeo Perez, chairman of the Manila Economic and Cultural Office (Center) AFP FILE PHOTO MANILA, Philippines – The Philippines is waiting for tempers in Taiwan to cool before settling the dispute over a shot Taiwanese fisherman, the head of an office in charge of relations said Sunday. Issues like Manila’s ';one-China'; policy and comments by Taiwanese investigators ...

  • Taiwan fishermen burn Filipino flags in protest over fatal shooting

    Angry fishermen burn Filipino flags outside the Philippine representative office in Taipei in a protest at the killing of a Taiwanese fisherman by the Philippine coast guard. Hundreds of fishermen wearing yellow headbands and chanting "Justice must be done!" and "Killer must be punished!" hurled eggs at the office and demanded Manila apologize for the incident last Thursday ...

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