More than 30,000 Chinese mainland tourists are expected to travel to Taiwan from Sept 29 to Oct 8, which covers the week-long National Day holidays ending on Oct 7.
A luxury cruise liner carrying 1,000 bronze figurines of Guanyin, or the Goddess of Mercy, set sail from East China's Zhejiang province on Monday on a direct cross-Straits voyage to Taiwan that is intended to promote cross-Straits cultural and religious exchanges.
The Chinese mainland's Taiwan affairs chief on Monday invited Taiwan compatriots living abroad to visit the mainland and support the peaceful development of cross-Straits ties.
Kuomintang (KMT) vice chairman Chiang Hsiao-yen said Friday in Ganzhou, east China's Jiangxi Province, that the Diaoyu Islands belong to China and "the entire Chinese people."
Taiwan's banking regulators Thursday approved the applications of two major mainland banks - Bank of China and Bank of Communications - to establish representative offices on the island.
The mainland-based Red Cross Society of China has donated $100,000 to help relief efforts after typhoon Fanabi slammed Taiwan Sunday.
Taiwan and Chinese mainland share the same root and the inseparable relations between them will be even closer in the future, a Taiwan representative told a youth forum here on Tuesday.
An earthquake measuring 5.2 on the Richter scale struck the sea areas near Taiwan's Hualien at 11:17 a.m. local time Monday, Taiwan's weather bureau said in a statement on its website.
The most powerful typhoon to hit China in two years landed in Taiwan on Sunday, injuring at least 45 people, grounding flights and cutting power to tens of thousands of homes.
Two tourists from China's Taiwan province were wounded when unidentified gunmen opened fire near the main mosque in the Indian capital, CNN-IBN TV reported.
A strong typhoon lashed Taiwan Sunday morning, bringing heavy rains and strong winds.
The shipping route linking Xiamen, in East China's Fujian province, and Jinmen, in Taiwan, was closed Sunday in the wake of Typhoon Fanapi, said local authorities Sunday.
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