Taiwan in fresh UN membership bid
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Taiwan prepares to make its 15th attempt to become a member of the UN - a bid fiercely opposed by China.
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Japan, Brazil, India and Germany are joining forces to lobby for permanent seats on the UN Security Council. The move comes as a high-level panel prepares recommendations on reforming and enlarging the most powerful UN body.
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The United Nations again blocked  Taiwan&#39;s quest for membership in the world body on Wednesday  despite a high-profile campaign this year by Taipei that has  irritated the United States as well as China.
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Taiwan's president kicks off a nationwide torch relay to highlight the island's bid to join the United Nations.
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TAIPEI, Taiwan -- The people of Taiwan have said no to aa new mandate to accelerate President Chen Shui-bian&#39;s pro-independence policies.
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President Chen Shui-bian of Taiwan, in a conciliatory gesture aimed at China&#39;s newly consolidated leadership, proposed a fresh start Sunday on long-suspended talks
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A key General Assembly committee rejected Taiwan's bid to join the United Nations on Wednesday, the 15th straight year the island has been thwarted in its attempt to become a member of the world body.
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South Africa is ready to serve as a permanent member of a revamped UN Security Council, the foreign minister said as a campaign for expanding the UN&#39;s decision-making body heated up.
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The people of Taiwan are voting to choose a new parliament in a ballot that could shape its future relations with China.
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Taiwan&#39;s voters go to the polls on Saturday for parliamentary elections which could shape the way the island handles relations with China.
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A key General Assembly committee rejected Taiwan's bid to join the United Nations yesterday, the 15th straight year the island has been thwarted in its attempt to become a member of the world body. The General Committee met behind closed doors for the first time in years to weigh 167 recommendations, including Taiwan's application, for inclusion on the agenda of ...
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The Taiwanese cabinet is to hold a referendum on joining the United Nations under the name &quot;Taiwan,&quot; following a policy reversal on Thursday.
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BEIJING, July 21 -- Brushing aside warnings from the Bush administration, the Taiwanese government of President Chen Shui-bian announced Friday that it has applied for U.N. membership under the name Taiwan.
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Taiwan vowed to continue its fight to join the United Nations despite its 12th consecutive failure to gain a seat due to opposition from rival China.
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(InfoWorld) - Taiwan is moving forward on its wireless broadband Internet initiative by finalizing rules for an upcoming WiMax license auction and preparing its first major WiMax testing zone, officials said Tuesday. The island hopes to be among the world leaders in adopting WiMax. Part of the idea is to boost Taiwanese companies, which already manufacture a lot of related IT gear, by promoting the technology. Officials also want to ensure speedy wireless Internet access for even the most remote areas of the island. WiMax base stations can send broadband Internet signals to far greater distances than the Wi-Fi technology it is meant to replace. Although estimates vary on how far WiMax signals can go, in a densely populated place such as Taiwan, where users are not likely to be positioned within sight of access points, the distance should be between 2 km to 4 km. By the end of this year, government officials will finalize rules for a WiMax license auction meant to dole out radio spectrum to network operators. Currently, the government is debating how many WiMax licenses to issue. The National Communications Commission (NCC), which is charged with creating policy related to WiMax, wants to see nine licenses auctioned. But the ministry under which the NCC operates is pressing for just two, an NCC spokesman said. He said officials still plan to have auction rules in place by the end of this year, despite the disagreement. Early next year, the island's biggest telecommunications service operator, Chunghwa Telecom, will start work on a WiMax test site in Luo-Dong Township, on the northeast coast of Taiwan. By mid-year, over a third of the town's residents will be able to access the network, and the rest of the town will be covered by the end of 2007, said Hsu An-ling, a Chunghwa representative. In early 2008, Chunghwa will expand the network to the rest of Yilan County, where Luo-Dong is located. Nortel Networks is providing mobile WiMax base stations based on the IEEE 802.16e standard for the project, which include antennas capable of demanding applications such as VOIP (voice over Internet protocol) and voice over WiMax. WiMax gained a huge boost earlier this year when U.S. operatorÂ Sprint Nextel announced plansÂ to build a coast-to-coast network using the technology. The company hopes to launch trials by the end of next year, and expand coverage to 100 millionÂ people in 2008. WiMax needed the push because it competes with technologies that could be used in its stead, such as Wi-Fi and 3G (third generation) HSDPA (High-Speed Downlink Packet Access) technology. Taiwanese mobile phone service operator Far Eastone Telecommunications recently started offering HSDPA in Taiwan.ADVERTISEMENTNEW IT SERVICES FROM IBM: EASIER TO BUY AND IMPLEMENTDiscover a simpler, more cost-effective way to get the solutions your company needs to grow more flexible and efficient.
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Japan, Greece, Denmark, Argentina and Tanzania have been elected to two-year terms on the UN Security Council. Japan plans to use its election as a springboard to campaign for a permanent council seat.
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Taiwan pledged Thursday to press on with its diplomatic battle for a seat at the United Nations after the world body turned down its 15th bid for membership amid opposition from China.