An earthquake measuring 5.3 on the Richter Scale hit the sea off the coast of Hualien County in Taiwan at 4:16 pm Beijing Time Tuesday, according to the China Earthquake Networks Center.
Nora Sun, a former United States trade consul and granddaughter of Sun Yat-sen, the forerunner of the revolution that ended imperial rule in China, died on Saturday afternoon in a Taipei hospital, about one month after being injured in a car accident.
Top political advisor Jia Qinglin on Sunday called for efforts to be made to create more favorable conditions for the reunification of the Chinese nation.
A mainland tycoon on a charity tour of Taiwan gave NT$70,000 ($2,420) to an elderly woman who had been waiting for him at his hotel in Taipei, media reported on Jan 27.
Banking regulators of the Chinese mainland and Taiwan have agreed to hold regular talks on banking supervision to safeguard cross-Strait financial stability.
A Chinese mainland official Wednesday expressed hope that exchanges between the Communist Party of China (CPC) and the Kuomintang Party (KMT) would continue to play a unique and important role in promoting ties between the mainland and Taiwan.
The Chinese mainland and Taiwan are maintaining communications over four mainland fishermen detained by Taiwan authorities earlier this month, a mainland official said Wednesday.
The Chinese mainland would support the government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) in seeking an economic cooperation agreement with Taiwan, a mainland spokeswoman on Taiwan affairs said Wednesday.
Trade volume between the Chinese mainland and Taiwan reached $145.37 billion last year, up 36.9 percent year on year.
Beijing's top Taiwan affairs official has called on both sides of the Straits to jointly promote traditional Chinese culture in the latest effort to boost ties.
The Chinese mainland will continue to strengthen protection of the rights and interests of Taiwan compatriots after progress was made last year in processing complaints.
A mainland official Wednesday called on Taiwan authorities to treat mainland students enrolled in colleges on the island equally.
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