Mainland and Taiwan negotiators have opened the inaugural meeting of the cross-Straits Economic Cooperation Committee (ECC) in a bid to push for closer economic exchanges.
The first meeting of the cross-Straits Economic Cooperation Committee (ECC) opened Tuesday in Taiwan's Taoyuan county.
A prison hospital decided Friday that Wu Shu-chen, wife of former Taiwan leader Chen Shui-bian, was physically unfit to serve her jail term of 17 and a half years for corruption.
A Chinese mainland business delegation led by Chen Yunlin, president of the Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS), will visit Taiwan from February 23 to 28.
Wu Shu-chen, wife of former Taiwan leader Chen Shui-bian, arrived at a prison hospital in the central city of Taichung Friday morning where a medical team will assess whether she can serve her 17.5-year corruption sentence.
People in Taiwan celebrate the annual Lantern Festival by flying sky lanterns, which are made of oiled paper and bamboo frame, and contains a candle or other lighting inside.
A Chinese mainland delegation from the northeastern province of Liaoning, composed of more than 100 representatives from the business, culture and education sectors, started its five-day tour of Taiwan on Wednesday.
The number of passengers travelling between Fujian on the eastern coast of China's mainland and Taiwan by direct sea and air links surpassed 2 million in 2010, according to the Fujian provincial bureau of transport.
A senior Chinese mainland official has said the government will work with Taiwan to enhance cross-Straits economic exchanges and cooperation.
A magnitude-5.5 earthquake jolted over the seas south of Taiwan at around 0720 GMT on Tuesday, said the Hong Kong Observatory.
Panda experts from both the Chinese mainland and Taiwan await the result of artificial insemination procedures on two pandas after the pair failed to breed naturally on Feb 11.
Taiwan universities and vocational and technical colleges can admit 2,000 students from the Chinese mainland in 2011.
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