Taiwan manufacturing giant Chi Mei Corp. has donated a fine arts museum to the southern city of Tainan, where the company was established.

Peter Huang, Chairman of the Peacetime Foundation of Taiwan, has been named a distinguished alumnus by National Chengchi University.

Ongoing U.S. support for Taiwan?s expanded participation in the World Health Organization is welcomed by the ROC government, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs May 17.

Taiwan manufacturing giant Chi Mei Corp. has donated a fine arts museum to the southern city of Tainan, where the company was established.

Taipei-based Institute for Information Industry inked a memorandum of understanding with Japan?s Fujisoft Inc. and the nonprofit Open Embedded Software Foundation May 17 in Tokyo, with a view to enhancing the industry?s embedded software stability for the Android operating system.

The Taipei Representative Office in the U.K. rebutted May 17 Georgetown University history professor Richard C. Thornton?s claim made in a letter published in the Financial Times that the Diaoyutai Islands belong to Japan because they were included in a U.S. reversion of Okinawa in 1969. Lin Kuo-chung, director of the office?s press division, said [...]

A total of 70 percent of Taiwan?s people support maintaining the status quo in cross-strait relations over the next four years, according to a poll released by the Mainland Affairs Council May 17.

ROC President Ma Ying-jeou said May 17 that one of his administration?s top goals over the next four years is to enhance Taiwan-EU economic relations by inking a bilateral free trade agreement.

More than 230 foreign dignitaries in 41 separate delegations, including heads of state and special envoys, will attend ROC President Ma Ying-jeou?s second-term inauguration May 20, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said May 17.

ROC President Ma Ying-jeou?s inauguration will be held at the Presidential Office in Taipei City between 9:00 a.m. and 9:50 a.m. May 20. The event will be streamed live in Chinese and English on the office website, and in Japanese and Vietnamese on the Radio Taiwan International website, the Presidential Office said May 16.