Taipei, May 29 (CNA) Taipei Mayor Hau Lung-bin said Friday that the holding of the annual assembly in Taipei of Japan’s oldest floral art school, Ikenobo, marked a step forward for bilateral cultural exchanges and strengthened the friendship between the two countries. “The gathering here today serves as a platform for floral art exchanges between [...]

Taipei, May 29 (CNA) Renowned film music composer Ennio Morricone on Friday invited the Taiwanese public to experience the power of the diverse genres of his film music, which he says mirrors the contemporary era. “Film music is a relatively young form of art, but it encompasses all artistic elements such as painting and poetry,” [...]

Taipei, May 29 (CNA) Taiwan Stock Exchange Corp. (TWSE) has won the right to host the 52nd World Federation of Exchanges (WFE) Annual Conference in 2012 to promote cooperation among regulated exchanges worldwide, a TWSE executive said Friday. TWSE, in an attempt to lift Taiwan’s international image, will invite leaders of 103 stock, futures and [...]

Kaohsiung, May 29 (CNA) The company that won the contract to operate a self-service bicycle rental system in Kaohsiung city complained Friday that it has been in deficit since the system was launched about three months ago by the city government. When the service was introduced in March, there were 1,500 bikes available for rent [...]

Taipei, May 27 (CNA) Taiwan should further improve its infrastructure to compete with neighboring countries and areas and better court foreign tourists, business representatives said Wednesday at a seminar sponsored by the Travel and Tourism Committee under the European Chamber of Commerce Taipei (ECCT). Josef Dolp, the ECCT’s committee chairman and Sheraton Taipei Hotel general [...]

Taipei, May 27 (CNA) Although the total score of the monitoring indicators for Taiwan’s economy advanced in April one point to 11 from March, business conditions in the domestic market remained sluggish, a government agency said Wednesday. Hung Jue-pin, director of the Economic Research Department under the Cabinet-level Council for Economic Planning and Development (CEPD) [...]

Panama City, Panama, May 28 (CNA) Taiwan donated 27 ambulances to Guatemala Thursday on the eve of a visit by Republic of China President Ma Ying-jeou to the Central American country. The donation was made by ROC Ambassador to Guatemala Adolfo Sun and received by Sandra Torres de Colom, the first lady of Guatemala, at [...]

China will send buying missions to Taiwan with orders worth billions of dollars to boost the island’s struggling economy, the Chinese government said Wednesday, in a fresh sign of warming bilateral ties. Seven to nine Chinese business delegations are expected to visit Taiwan in the period until September, according to Yang Yi (楊毅), spokesman of [...]

Taipei, May 29 (CNA) The plaque designating the former Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall as National Taiwan Democracy Memorial Hall will be removed in July and replaced by the inscription with the monument’s original name, according to the Executive Yuan. An Executive Yuan official said Thursday that the move follows a legislative resolution passed in January [...]

Kaohsiung City Government’s attempt to levy a carbon tax on major polluters has ground to a halt because city councilors have failed to reach a consensus on the issue. It now looks unlikely that the city council will pass the proposal any time soon after it wrapped up the spring session on Wednesday. CREDIT When [...]