Australia extends reach of tough refugee regulation to mainland
AFPMay 17, 2013, 12:12 am TWN
SYDNEY–Australia on Thursday extended tough refugee policies to any asylum-seeker who lands on its mainland, allowing them to be banished to remote Nauru or Papua New Guinea for detention.
Until now, [...]
Studying in mainland is rewarding
Updated: 2013-05-11 05:51
By Jambon Chan (HK Edition)
The last day of the Hong Kong Diploma of Secondary Education Examination (DSE) fell on May 2. It’s time now for candidates to think about their future. The competition for getting [...]
Mainland Chinese services growth slows sharply: HSBC
ReutersMay 7, 2013, 12:07 am TWN
BEIJING — Growth in China’s services sector slowed sharply in April to its lowest point since August 2011, a private sector survey showed on Monday — fresh evidence of rising risks to a revival [...]
No plans to buy mainland electricity: gov’t
By Adam Tyrsett Kuo ,The China PostMay 7, 2013, 12:07 am TWN
The Bureau of Energy and Taiwan Power Company said yesterday that the country has no plan to purchase mainland Chinese electricity, in response to rumors claiming that the Economics [...]
Taiwan orangutans arrive at mainland zoo
Orangutans [File photo]
A pair of rare orangutans from Taiwan were shipped to Fuzhou, capital of Fujian Province, on Monday, starting a new life on the mainland as a token of improving mainland-Taiwan relations.
The orangutans [...]
Mainland, Taiwan mark 20th anniversary of “Wang-Koo meeting”
TAIPEI, April 28 (Xinhua) — A symposium was held Sunday in Taipei to mark the 20th anniversary of the historic “Wang-Koo meeting,” which laid the foundation for peaceful development of relations between the Chinese mainland [...]
Mainland means a lot for HK
Updated: 2013-04-24 05:22
By Thomas Chan (HK Edition)
If food stopped coming at low cost from the mainland to Hong Kong, there would be food price inflation. To replace freshwater from Dongguan, Hong Kong would have to build more reservoirs [...]
Mainland wage increases hasty
In recent years, the central government has tended to increase the national income, in order to improve people’s lives and enable everyone to share in the achievement of the country’s economic development. The intention, admittedly, [...]
Chinese films dominate Q1 mainland box office
[unable to retrieve full-text content]Chinese films made a strong comeback from last year’s losing battle with foreign flicks, taking in 69 percent of mainland box office revenues in the first quarter.
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Mainland, Taiwan fight H7N9 by sharing virus strain
[unable to retrieve full-text content]The Chinese mainland will provide Taiwan with human H7N9 avian influenza virus strain, allowing the two sides to jointly explore new detection and prevention methods, mainland health authorities said Thursday.
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Chinese films dominate Q1 mainland box office
Chinese films made a strong comeback from last year’s losing battle with foreign flicks, taking in 69 percent of mainland box office revenues in the first quarter.
Statistics from the film bureau under the State General Administration [...]
Chinese films dominate Q1 mainland box office
BEIJING, April 17 (Xinhua) — Chinese films made a strong comeback from last year’s losing battle with foreign flicks, taking in 69 percent of mainland box office revenues in the first quarter.
Statistics from the film bureau under [...]
Bomb scare suspects extradited from mainland
By Lauly Li ,The China PostApril 17, 2013, 12:01 am TWN
TAIPEI, Taiwan — Two suspects in a twin bomb scare, Hu Tsung-hsien (胡宗賢) and Chu Ya-tung (朱亞東), were extradited back to Taiwan from China yesterday afternoon, according [...]
Mainland to better protect Taiwanese enterprisers’ rights
The Chinese mainland will better protect the legitimate rights and interests of Taiwanese people doing business here, a spokeswoman for the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council said Wednesday.
Spokeswoman Fan Liqing told reporters at [...]
Asylum-seeker boat reaches Australian mainland
A boat packed with 66 asylum-seekers managed to evade detection by border patrols and arrived at a port on the Australian mainland.
The boat was spotted within the harbour limits of Geraldton in Western Australia, more than 2,000 kilometres [...]
Microsoft to launch 1st mainland innovation center
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BOAO, Hainan – Microsoft is expected to establish an innovation center in South China’s Hainan province, the first of its kind on the Chinese mainland, according to an agreement signed between [...]
Top 10 super models in Chinese mainland
[unable to retrieve full-text content]Check out the top 10 most popular models in Chinese mainland.
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Taiwan on alert after more H7N9 cases in mainland
Taiwan was on high alert against H7N9 bird flu as the mainland reported increasing number of cases while cross-strait travelers were rising during the Tomb-sweeping Day holiday.
The island’s disease control authority Friday urged airports [...]
More mainland students allowed to study in Taiwan
Students from two more mainland provinces will be allowed to study in Taiwan, bringing the number of such municipalities and provinces on the mainland to eight, a mainland spokesman said Wednesday.
Launched in 2011, the pilot program for mainland [...]
‘Combat-ready’ NK threatens Hawaii, US mainland
AFPMarch 27, 2013, 12:00 am TWN
SEOUL–North Korea’s military put its “strategic” rocket units on a war footing Tuesday, with a fresh threat to strike targets on the U.S. mainland, Hawaii and Guam, as well as South Korea.
The [...]
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