The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) on Tuesday expressed condolences and donated US$50,000 to the Philippines government to help victims of Typhoon Ketsana.
“In order to express our humanitarian concern and sympathy to the people of the Philippines, the Foreign Ministry immediately requested its representative office in Manila to gain knowledge of the disaster and donated US$50,000 [...]
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The Ministry of the Interior (MOI) will present a plan some time between May and June next year to revise the government’s current definition of poverty so that more people could have access to social welfare, Minister Jiang Yi-huah said on Tuesday.
In an exclusive interview with the Central News Agency, Jiang said that government support [...]
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Taipei, Sept. 30 (CNA) President Ma Ying-jeou has appointed former Premier Liu Chao-shiuan to attend the upcoming annual conference of Forum 2000, which is slated for Oct. 11-13 in Prague, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Wednesday. [...]
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The opposition Democratic Progressive Party announced Wednesday that it would file a petition to the Executive Yuan Appeals Commission for the overturn of the rejection by the Referendum Review Commission of a proposed referendum on the controversial “Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement” with the People’s Republic of China.
On August 27, the 17-member Referendum Review Committee under [...]
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Taipei, Sept. 30 (CNA) Minister of Justice Wang Ching-feng requested Wednesday that the U.S. government assist with the return of 75 Taiwanese fugitives from the United States to face justice in Taiwan. To this end, Wang said, [...]
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Taipei, Sept. 30 (CNA) The new top Canadian envoy to Taiwan has visited areas in the southernmost county of Pingtung that were devastated by Typhoon Morakot Aug. 8, to express sympathy for the storm survivors, according to a Wednesday [...]
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Taipei, Sept. 30 (CNA) The opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) officially filed an appeal with the Cabinet Wednesday against its rejection of the party’s initiative to hold a referendum on a proposed economic cooperation framework agreement (ECFA) between Taiwan and China. [...]
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Premier Wu Den-yih (吳敦義) on Tuesday denied that the government had referred to Rebiya Kadeer, president of the World Uyghur Congress, as a terrorist, but noted that her organization has relations with terrorist groups.
“The government never said Kadeer was a terrorist. We never said that nor did we accuse the World Uyghur Congress led by [...]
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Taiwan will neither encourage nor ban overseas compatriots from participating in China’s National Day celebrations, Premier Wu Den-yih (吳敦義) said on Tuesday.
Fielding questions from Kuomintang (KMT) Legislator Wu Yu-sheng (吳育昇), the premier said the government respected the rights of compatriots and the democracy of the nations where they live.“The government cannot impose a ban on [...]
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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) said on Tuesday that it was working on a plan to set up a new representative office in Istanbul, Turkey, but its timetable is “flexible.”
“The foreign ministry has maintained close contact with its Turkish counterpart and is working on the matter, but it takes time and patience, as further [...]
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