Vanuatu affirms Taipei link
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SYDNEY Vanuatu&#39;s new diplomatic ties with Taiwan remain in place, a spokesman for Prime Minister Serge Vohor said on Friday, contradicting a claim by China that his South Pacific island government had renounced links with Taipei.
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Taiwan&#39;s African allies on Sunday gave their backing to the island&#39;s bid to secure a seat in the United Nations.
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Australian Trade Minister Mark Vaile has predicated a successful outcome to free trade agreement (FTA) negotiations with China. &quot;We can&#39;t afford not to enhan ce our relationship
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Typhoon Aere is reported to be on a collision course towards Taipei, the capital of Taiwan, after pelting the northern portion of the island with high winds and rain.
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TAIPEI : Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian has pledged to push for the island&#39;s inclusion in the United Nations under the name of &quot;Taiwan,&quot; in a move certain to anger rival China, it was reported on Monday.
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Three people are killed and almost 200 arrested as tribal violence hits the Pacific Island of Vanuatu.
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The Taiwanese government added several companies to a&#160;growing list of WiMax wireless broadband technology partners&#160;on Monday, including Alcatel-Lucent, Motorola, Nokia Siemens Networks, and Sprint Nextel.Taipei has been putting together incentive packages for multinationals to entice them to build WiMax research and development centers in Taiwan, work on development projects with companies from the island, and to make the island a part of the standards-making process for the technology, which delivers high speed Internet service over the airwaves.Intel was an early champion of WiMax as a replacement for the Wi-Fi wireless networking standard uses for Internet access in coffee shops, airports and other places in much of the developed world. The chip giant has already signed a similar agreement with Taiwan, and is working with Taiwanese computer parts makers to ready the technology for inclusion in laptop PCs next year.&quot;We believe partnerships between Taiwan WiMax players and global leaders will speed up the development of WiMax technologies,&quot; said Steve Ruey-Long Chen, Taiwan&#39;s economics minister, in a speech at the 2007 WiMax Forum, which opened in Taipei on Monday.The agreements are memorandums of understanding, nonbinding pacts to work together to promote WiMax. Most signatories of such agreements have already pledged to invest in Taiwan or work with Taiwanese companies.&quot;Nokia Siemens Networks already has partnerships with Taiwanese companies. This memorandum of understanding provides the framework to extend those partnerships,&quot; said Marko Tiesmaki, head of business development in broadband wireless access at the company.Alcatel-Lucent has already pledged to establish a WiMax lab in Taiwan, said Patrick Plas, chief operating officer of the company&#39;s GSM/WiMax business. Its memorandum signifies its openness to working with Taiwan to promote WiMax technology, he said.The pacts are part of Taiwan&#39;s plan to become one of the largest producers of WiMax equipment in the world. The island is already positioning itself to be one of the fastest adopters of WiMax wireless broadband Internet connectivity outside of North America. Officials see the technology as a good way to spread broadband Internet access throughout the island, which includes remote mountain villages and sparsely populated outlying islands.Taiwan often signs such agreements with multinationals to stimulate technology development on the island. Such deals can encourage companies to build technology-specific R&amp;D centers on the island through the use of incentives such as tax-free status, research grants, rent-free space in science parks and more.Other companies have also signed memorandums of understanding with Taiwan, including Starent Networks, NEC, Nortel Networks, and German WiMax tester Rohde &amp; Schwarz.Last week, Taipei pledged to spend $1.22 billion to build out Taiwan&#39;s WiMax network over the next five years, including $1 billion for a fiber optic backbone running the length of the island and $220 million for WiMax base stations and other equipment.The island has been promoting its M Taiwan project, or Mobile Taiwan, to speed up Internet mobility and encourage companies on the island to invest more in building products for WiMax, 3G (third generation) mobile telecommunications and other wireless technologies. The government has granted WiMax licenses to six operators, and some of them plan to start offering services as early as next year.
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Australia has easily defeated Solomon Islands in the first leg of the Confederations&#39; Cup soccer final played in the Solomons capital, Honiara.
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More than 100,000 Taiwanese rallied Saturday to demand the United Nations accept the island as a member, the most important step yet in the government-orchestrated campaign to emphasize its separation from mainland China.
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ASIA/TAIWAN - La Commissione per lo Sviluppo della Conferenza Episcopale Regionale di Taiwan invita i fedeli a Âmandare un altro regalo dÂamoreÂ in Mongolia per i fratelli piÃ¹ poveri Taipei (Agenzia Fides) - ÂDue anni fa, la Chiesa di Taiwan ha messo insieme con entusiasmo un Âregalo dÂamoreÂ destinato alla Mongolia. Abbiamo mandato 5 container di abbigliamento, scarpe, posate, oggetti scolastici e giocattoli, rispondendo cosÃ¬ ai...
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The tiny nation of Tokelau, a remote atoll in the South Pacific, is prospering thanks to its .tk domain name.
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The UN mission in Kosovo has issued a statement saying it was satisfied with yesterday's meeting between Belgrade and Pristina officials in Vienna.
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Taipei, Oct. 28 (CNA) President Chen Shui-bian reaffirmed his sincerity Thursday to promote normalization of relations across the Taiwan Strait.
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Several Central American countries and the Dominican Republic have pledged to support Taiwan in its bid to join the United Nations, officials said Thursday.
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Australia&#39;s Foreign Minister says he&#39;s confident of progress in talks on a regional free trade area, during this week&#39;s meeting of South-East Asian nations in Laos.
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Secretary of State Colin Powell  exchanged brief greetings with Taiwan's foreign minister when  the two attended the inauguration of Panama's President Martin  Torrijos this week, a gesture that might trouble China.
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I am a professor of geography visiting Taiwan, and have read about the proposed construction of a freeway from Taipei to Hualien. The experience of communities in North America and Europe has been fairly consistent