Visitors watch the legendary Chinese ancient painting "Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains" in the Palace Museum in Taipei, southeast China's Taiwan, June 1, 2011.[Photo/Xinhua]
Zhejiang will invite 100 university students from Taiwan on a summer training program this year to beef up education cooperation across the Straits, Zhao Hongzhu, CPC Party Secretary of the province, said.
Chinese mainland announced on Wednesday that as of June 1, it will suspend imports of beverages, food products and food additives from Taiwan that are produced by companies suspected of using a cancer-causing plastic additive.
Visitors to the Palace Museum in Taipei from June to September will have the luck to view the two parts of a legendary Chinese ancient painting exhibited side by side after the separation of 360 years.
The scare over a cancer-causing plastic additive in food and drink products in Taiwan has spread to the Chinese mainland, with more than 4,800 beverage bottles suspected of contamination recalled, Beijing's top quality watchdog announced on Friday.
Mainland importers have begun recalling possibly DEHP-tainted sports drinks manufactured in Taiwan, Li Yuanping, spokesman for the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, said on Friday.
The Chinese mainland's police authorities will send back 14 Taiwan residents on suspicion of telecom fraud to police in Taiwan upon finishing investigation, Public Security Minister Meng Jianzhu said Thursday.
Two 15-year-old boys were arrested in Taiwan on the suspicion that they had pimped at least a dozen girls, some of them as young as 12, police said on May 18.
A Taipei hospital was fined after it fired a male employee for dressing as a woman at work. According to reports, the case is the first of its kind to occur in Taiwan.
The Chinese mainland on Wednesday called for joint efforts with Taiwan to seek common ground while reserving differences and jointly safeguarding cross-Straits peace.
Taiwan applicants have enthusiastically signed up for the upcoming third Strait Forum in Xiamen city of southeastern China's Fujian province, a mainland official said on Wednesday.
Chinese mainland spokeswoman Fan Liqing on Wednesday urged all Taiwan-funded companies to draw lessons from Friday's Foxconn blast, which killed three, and ensure production safety.