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Chi Mei presents art museum to Tainan City

Taiwan Today News — Thu, 17 May 2012 16:00:00 +0000

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

Human rights activist named NCCU distinguished alumnus

Taiwan Today News — Thu, 17 May 2012 16:00:00 +0000

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

Taiwan thanks US for ongoing WHO support

Taiwan Today News — Thu, 17 May 2012 16:00:00 +0000

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.

Chi Mei presents art museum to Tainan City

Taiwan Today News — Thu, 17 May 2012 16:00:00 +0000

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

Taiwan, Japan collaborate on Android software

Taiwan Today News — Thu, 17 May 2012 16:00:00 +0000

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.

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Taiwan Today News — Thu, 17 May 2012 16:00:00 +0000

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 in a letter printed in the U.K. business daily that between 1945 and 1972, the island chain ?was merely under U.S. administrative control, which conferred no rights to sovereignty over them.? He added that Washington sent a letter to the ROC government May 26, 1971 stating the transfer of ?administrative rights? over the islands to Japan did not affect the ROC?s claim of sovereignty.

Majority of ROC nationals favor cross-strait status quo

Taiwan Today News — Thu, 17 May 2012 16:00:00 +0000

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.

Ma seeks to sign Taiwan-EU free trade agreement

Taiwan Today News — Thu, 17 May 2012 16:00:00 +0000

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.

Over 230 foreign guests to attend Ma inauguration

Taiwan Today News — Thu, 17 May 2012 16:00:00 +0000

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.

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Taiwan Today News — Wed, 16 May 2012 16:00:00 +0000

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.