Tag: Taiwan

• Monday, July 30th 2018 - 09:44 UTC

  Airlines yield to Beijing and eliminate reference to Taiwan as independent

  

  The Chinese Foreign Ministry said that the move by the three biggest US airlines to change how they refer to Taiwan on their booking websites was a “positive development”.

• Tuesday, June 12th 2018 - 08:32 UTC

  US opens new US$ 250 million de facto embassy in Taipei

  

  While the world watches the summit between president Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un unfold, another significant event will take place elsewhere in Asia. On June 12 in Taipei, Taiwan and the US will jointly mark the establishment of a new facility for the American Institute in Taiwan (AIT), the US’s de facto embassy in the country. Politicians from both nations are attending a ceremony to commemorate the US$ 250 million complex, which will open formally later this year.

• Thursday, May 3rd 2018 - 08:29 UTC

  Dominican Republic drops Taiwan and establishes relations with Beijing

  

  The Dominican Republic and China announced on Tuesday they were establishing diplomatic relations as the Caribbean country became the latest nation to dump Taiwan, leaving it with just 19 diplomatic allies around the globe. Taipei said it was “deeply upset” at the decision, which it blamed on “dollar diplomacy”. The move deepens the island's international isolation while its giant neighbor flexes its economic and political might on the global stage.

• Tuesday, March 6th 2018 - 09:10 UTC

  Drifting jigger towed outside the Falklands' Conservation zone

  

  The Taiwanese jigger Hung Shun 1 which on 24 February caught fire to the north of the Falkland Islands capital Stanley, last Sunday was towed outside the Islands Conservation zone. When the incident took place last month all 58 crew members were swiftly and safely evacuated to another fishing vessel Lung Soon Fa 1, which was in the area at that time.

• Saturday, February 24th 2018 - 09:01 UTC

  China, Spain, Taiwan, Japan and S Korea account for 85% global fishing efforts, says Science magazine

  

  More than half of the world’s oceans are being commercially fished, spanning an area four times what is used for global agriculture, according to a new study published in the journal Science. The study is the first in-depth look at the global footprint of the industrial fishing industry.

• Thursday, November 5th 2015 - 07:30 UTC

  Beijing and Taiwan leaders to meet for the first time in 66 years, in Singapore

  

  Just weeks before Taiwan holds general and presidential elections, Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou announced he will hold face-to-face talks with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Singapore. The meeting Saturday will be the first between Taiwanese and Chinese leaders since 1949 and authorities in China are predicting it will be a “major historic milestone” in the development of cross-strait relations.

• Tuesday, May 5th 2015 - 17:50 UTC

  China warms up to Taiwan and calls for future relations on an “equal basis”

  

  Chinese President Xi Jinping met with the chairman of Taiwan's ruling Nationalist Party (KMT) in Beijing on Monday for the highest-level meeting between the two sides since 2009.

• Friday, January 17th 2014 - 07:23 UTC

  Taiwan grant to Santa Lucia for development and fisheries

  

  Taiwan is providing an estimated 3.5 million dollars grant to St. Lucia in the Caribbean to fund three projects identified by the PM Kenny Anthony administration.

• Tuesday, October 15th 2013 - 12:41 UTC

  “Chinese Taipei” represented at ICAO for the first time in four decades

  

  Taiwan was represented at an International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Assembly for the first time in over four decades when a Taiwanese delegation was present at the opening session of this year's meeting in Montreal last month.

• Thursday, July 11th 2013 - 07:04 UTC

  China blesses Taiwan economic accords if ‘one-China’ policy is respected

  

  China accepts that Taiwan signs economic cooperation agreements with other countries as long as they are not political and those countries do not interfere with the ‘one China policy’ which considers the island a province part of the nation, and not two nations as defended by Taipei.