Taiwan Travel News

Nancy Cheng, Taipei; Meiling Chen, DIGITIMES [Tuesday 24 November 2009] Taiwan-based IC designers expect inventories to run low through Lunar New Year if the current momentum in the market can last, according to industry sources.

SOUNDING: Participants at a speech contest shared their impressions of Taiwan and said that it was a much better place to learn Chinese than China By Loa Iok-sin STAFF REPORTER Sunday, Nov 22, 2009, Page 2 A foreign student holds up a dissected Chinese character yesterday while speaking about the problems she encountered learning Chinese at a ...

THE United States plans to resume arms sales to Taiwan and warned of a build-up of missiles aimed at the island by China, a top US diplomat said on Tuesday.

Daniel Shen, Taipei; Steve Shen, DIGITIMES [Monday 23 November 2009] Lou Qinjian, China's vice minister of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology , will arrive in Taipei on November 23 for a three-day visit, according to industry sources.

The Japanese animated movie "Hatta Yoichi" was given wide theatrical release Friday in Taiwan, but few moviegoers here are likely to grasp its political significance.

Jade Mountain, northeast Asia's highest peak and Taiwan's sole finalist for a "New 7 Wonders of the World" award, remains an alluring mystery due to its remoteness and tough permitting rules.

Chinaa s biggest banks are vying to open branches in Taiwan after the two sides agreed to widen access to each othera s financial industries.

Taiwan and China are looking into developing electric cars together and will hold a conference here next week to seek areas where they can cooperate, a Taipei official said Monday.

Taiwan's biggest LCD monitor maker on Saturday agreed to buy the island's second largest LCD screen maker in a bid to compete with South Korea's market leading giants.

Taipei, Nov. 14 To boost sales of Taiwanese goods in China's Nanjing city, a key Taiwan trade promoter on Saturday signed an agreement with the Nanjing City government to set up a Taiwan Brand Street and a Taiwanese goods center in the historic capital city in China's Jiangsu province, officials said.

Taipei, Taiwan is my favorite friendly Asian city. I have traveled all over the world, and I have many favorite cities.

Taipei, Nov.10 The visiting head of China's eastern coastal province of Jiangsu said Tuesday that his province is set to purchase US$3 billion worth of products from Taiwan.

After reaching a crisis level earlier in this decade as President Chen Shui-bian sought to distance Taiwan from China, relations across the Taiwan Strait have calmed noticeably since the election of Ma Ying-jeou as Taiwan's president in 2008.

Taipei, Nov. 7 The number of Chinese stowaways detained in Taiwan has dropped to 45, the lowest number in the past decade, officials of the National Immigration Agency said Friday.

Taiwan Peking opera "A Tale of Golden Locks," based on a novel of renowned writer Eileen Chang, will be staged at the National Center for the Performing Arts in Beijing on Nov.

Harris Lin, Taipei; Steve Shen, DIGITIMES [Wednesday 4 November 2009] Four of the five 3G mobile telecom carriers in Taiwan have adopted the WCDMA standard while reserving a 5MHz frequency band which may be used for TDD technologies including the China-developed TD-SCDMA and TD-LTE standards, according to industry sources.

Taipei, Oct. 29 The aviation and tourism industries on the two sides of the Taiwan Strait will jointly launch a a package tour of Taiwan and the Shanghai Expo 2010 early next year.

Taipei's dogs are living it up at hotels, complete with VIP suites and pools, that aim to ease the problem of strays that has plagued the city for decades.

Taiwan's tourism sector is performing better amid signs of economic recovery, Stanley Yen, honorary chairman of the Taiwan Visitors Association said a day before the 2009 Taipei International Travel Fair opens today.

Some 60 countries are participating in the Taipei International Travel Fair, which opens at the Taipei World Trade Center today.