China and Taiwan agree to flights
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China and Taiwan agree to allow direct flights for one month, including February's  lunar new year holiday.
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TAIPEI, Feb. 2 -- Taiwanese President Chen Shui-bian inaugurated a runway on one of the disputed Spratly Islands on Saturday and insisted the archipelago belongs to Taiwan despite claims by China and several other Asian countries.
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China&#39;s recent decision to cancel a military exercise, followed a few days later by a similar announcement from Taiwan, offered the first ray of hope in months that relations were on the mend.
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Singapore and Sri Lanka concluded an &quot;open skies&quot; agreement Tuesday allowing airlines to increase flights between the two nations.
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The exchange of historic flights between  China and Taiwan, a rare Beijing offer to restart stalled talks  and a private visit by senior Chinese officials all point to a  thaw in tensions in one of Asia's most dangerous hot spots.
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The old Chinese saying &quot;The tree prefers to be still, but the wind will not stop&quot; is true of the current relations between the mainland and Taiwan.
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An agreement comes into effect which allows Chinese tour groups to visit 29European nations.
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In a gradual opening of China&#39;s skies to more commercial aviation, Hong Kong and mainland regulators struck a deal Wednesday to grant more flying rights to carriers from the two sides.
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China claimed victory Thursday in a diplomatic battle with rival Taiwan for relations with Vanuatu, saying the tiny Pacific island nation was withdrawing its recognition of the Taiwanese government in fa
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Taiwan's government approved plans by four chip testing and packaging firms to invest in China, an official said Thursday, as the country further eases long-standing restrictions on high-tech investment in its communist rival.
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Taiwan's largest airline plans to sign a deal tomorrow that clears the way for the Connexion by Boeing in-flight Internet service to be offered on one Boeing 747-400 aircraft that flies between Taiwan and North America.
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Arch-rivals China and Taiwan may  exchange their first direct flights in more than five decades  in February under a proposal hammered out by Chinese  policymakers and Taiwan opposition legislators in Beijing on  Monday.
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Taiwan's president inaugurated a runway Saturday on a disputed island in the South China Sea, sparking a protest from the Philippines which also claims sovereignty over the isle, officials said.
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The first planes to fly non-stop between China and Taiwan since the two sides spilt in 1949 after a civil war departed, ferrying Taiwanese businesspeople home for the Lunar New Year holidays.
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Pakistan and China signed a series of agreements on Wednesday on everything from agriculture to aid as they sought to deepen economic and trade ties during a visit by Pakistani President Shaukat Aziz.
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China signed a contract to buy 23 A319, A320 and A321 commercial jets from aircraft manufacturer Airbus in a deal worth close to 1.0 billion euros (1.34 billion dollars).
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Taiwan invited China to send envoys to the island to discuss direct charter flights on Monday, a day after Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian called for peace talks between the rivals.