Taipei, Feb. 28 (CNA) Addressing a ceremony held in Tainan City in southern Taiwan Sunday to commemorate the 228 Incident of 1947, President Ma Ying-jeou said he hopes the anti-government uprising and its aftermath will serve to help Taiwan to forge ahead. Ma offered an apology to the victims of the 228 Incident, in which [...]

Tainan, Feb. 28 (CNA) President Ma Ying-jeou, who doubles as chairman of the ruling Kuomintang (KMT), said Sunday that the latest defeat in the legislative by-elections the previous day comes as a “severe warning” for the party. The KMT took only one of the four seats up for grabs in the by- elections held in [...]

Taipei, Feb. 28 (CNA) Taiwan’s International Cooperation and Development Fund (Taiwan ICDF) is cooperating with the U.S. charity Mercy Corps in hiring Haitian earthquake survivors to clean up debris and rebuild their homes, an official said Sunday. “The employment replaces relief” program is designed to create jobs to allow Haitian people displaced by the magnitude-7 [...]

The ruling Kuomintang (KMT) suffered yet another humiliating defeat in Saturday’s legislative by-elections, winning only one out of four seats up for grabs. Some said a low voter turnout rate was the main reason for the KMT’s defeat, but the crux of the KMT’s problems is more than that. The KMT lost three other legislative [...]

The ruling Kuomintang (KMT) suffered yet another setback Saturday as it failed to take three out of four legislative seats up for grabs in Saturday’s by-elections. With the latest defeat coming hard on the heels of the party’s disastrous performance in last December’s local government chief elections and all three seats at stake in Jan. [...]

The government has submitted a new version of the draft industrial innovation statute in which the controversial Article 30 of the statute that would offer extra-low 15 percent corporate income tax rate to international businesses, was scrapped. The government is right to do this in response to mainstream public opinion. But the fate of the [...]

Taipei, Feb. 28 (CNA) A tsunami triggered by a massive earthquake that struck Chile early Saturday is not expected to have a major impact on Taiwan, located on the other side of the Pacific Ocean, the Central Weather Bureau (CWB) said Sunday. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC) in Hawaii removed Taiwan from a Tsunami [...]

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(ChinaPost.com.tw) – Premier Wu Den-yih said yesterday that national health insurance (NHI) rates will not be raised on March 1 and that any rate adjustment will be accompanied by complementary measures. More Info: http://www.chinapost.com.tw/taiwan/national/national-news/2010/02/27/246104/Premier-promises.htm

(ChinaPost.com.tw) – The monitoring indicator for Taiwan’s economic performance flashed a yellow-red light for the third consecutive month in January, indicating the local economy kept heating up in the past month, according to data released yesterday by the Council for Economic Planning and Development (CEPD). More Info: http://www.chinapost.com.tw/taiwan/t-business/2010/02/27/246163/Third-yellow-red.htm