Taiwan Travel News

Business representatives from Taiwan and Japan will sign a memorandum of understanding today in Taipei with the aim of boosting their countries' economies, according to Chung-hua Institution for Economic Research .

The Smithsonian's Freer and Sackler Museums of Asian Art celebrate the Chinese Lunar New Year with a free noodle reception and screening of Taiwan-born, Oscar-winning director Ang Lee 's " Eat Drink Man Woman " on February 15.

The deputy head of China's quasi-official agency in charge of relations with Taiwan continued a trip to southern Taiwan Sunday, where he met with a local Buddhist leader and visited various tourist attractions.

Taiwan will open its doors to individual tourists from eight more Chinese cities to effectively boost travel exchanges across the Taiwan Strait, the Tourism Bureau said, citing a conclusion reached at a meeting between both sides yesterday.

Derek Hayes must certainly be the only Canadian writer who has taught high school on three continents and been graced with a cover blurb from Martin Amis.

In December of last year, a South Korean housewife became the year's 6 millionth foreign national to arrive in Taiwan as a tourist.

The China Post news staff--The Taiwan Institute for Sustainable Energy has decided to hold one extra seminar on corporate sustainability in Taipei on Friday, March 9 in Taipei to assist more enterprises to become more responsible corporate citizens and beef up international competitiveness.

Donald Tsang, chief executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China, currently has no plans to visit Taiwan, his office said yesterday.

TAIPEI, Taiwan -- A laser light show warmed up the Taipei skyline and also lit up the festive spirit on Monday as Taiwanese people in the capital and around the island celebrated the annual Lantern Festival.

Taiwan 's Ministry of Foreign Affairs is set to enforce the new rule requiring migrant workers from four Southeast Asian countries to submit fingerprint records when applying for work visas to enter Taiwan beginning on March 1. The fingerprint ing programme will be run on a trial basis in March and April for applicants from Indonesia, Thailand, the ... (more)

A foreign tour operator at Vakantiesalon van Brussel, an international travel fair in Brussels, Belgium, said Saturday that one of his tours that inluded Taiwan was selling well.

This fashionable perch from which to explore Taipei has enough amenities that you may wish to stay in.

President Ma Ying-jeou said yesterday that while Taiwan will strive to accommodate at least 10 million foreign arrivals per year until 2016, the government's priority will be to improve the nation's overall travel quality.

A tour guide from Changhua County purchased 500 cups of coffee from a convenience store in eastern Taiwan Thursdayto thank the store clerks for returning the purse she left there.

The Kaohsiung Lantern Festival, which started in Southern Taiwan on Jan. 27, was warmly welcomed with a water dance that lasted 6 minutes, dragon shaped kite with 50-meter length, and stunning fireworks display on Jan.

President Ma Ying-jeou said yesterday said his government will adopt a "new approach" to handling a dispute over U.S. beef imports.

Taiwan's new culture minister, Professor Lung Ying-tai, a prolific author and influential social critic, is likely to be a player worth watching in cross-strait relations because of her "incendiary role" in political and cultural developments in Taiwan, Hong Kong and even on the mainland, analysts say.

A diplomatic tit-for-tat between Japan and China has escalated as Tokyo lodged a new protest with Beijing over the drilling of gas fields in disputed waters in the East China Sea.

The China Post news staff--The writing was on the wall yesterday as medium-sized demolition vehicles struck down the signs, neon or otherwise, of the "exotic" eateries lining a side street a stone's throw from the main campus of National Taiwan Normal University in Taipei.

Taipei, Jan. 31 The chairman of the American Institute in Taiwan said Tuesday that resolving the beef dispute between the United States and Taiwan is a first step toward trade liberalization and vital to the country's acceptance into the Trans-Pacific Partnership .