Thu, Mar 05, 2015
KMT puts pay raises at top of agenda
The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) caucus yesterday said it will work in this legislative plenary session toward amending four labor-related laws to secure better salaries and bonuses for workers. As GDP growth is expected to reach 3.78 percent this year, alongside an increase of ...FULL STORY
Two retired MIB officers arrested as alleged spies
UNDER OBSERVATION: The defense ministry said that the investigation was the result of an internal tip...FULL STORYChina to boost defense spending by 10 percent this year
China’s official military budget will grow by about 10 percent in the coming year, a legislative spokeswoman...FULL STORY
Police say Ko death threat suspect is octogenarian
An 81-year-old man was detained on Tuesday for allegedly leaving a death threat against Taipei Mayor...FULL STORYChina plays down concerns over new ‘anti-terror law’
China played down US concerns that proposed “anti-terror legislation” would give the Chinese government...FULL STORY
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Singing protesters decry flight route
More than 100 demonstrators yesterday sang in unison outside the Taipei office...FULL STORY
- Taipei reaches tentative deal on ex-air force site
- Planned party touts plans
- Eight million expected to visit lanterns in Taichung
- Chinese capabilities in space pose threat to Taiwan: expert
- Universities run foul of NIA regulations
- Ministry of Labor revises rules for foreign caregivers
- Decapitator faces life in prison
- Food writer Lucille Han dies of cancer at age 57
- Drugs, risky sexual behavior linked
- Physicians promote anti-cancer effects of HPV vaccination
- Activists criticize adultery law, citing S Korean reversal
- New magazine a voice for Orchid Island youth
- Kaohsiung shortcuts on ferry site EIA: activists
- AEC report on nuclear scare heavily censored
- More challenges for THSRC as stock lawsuits continue
- Taipei to set up openness board
- Protest planned against China’s new flight routes
Industrial production rises 8.14 percent
Taiwan’s industrial production index in January rose 8.14 percent year-on-year to 109.49,...FULL STORY
- Alibaba pledge of entrepeneur fund is rejected
- Casetek earnings plunge 19.6% on falling margins
- Apple, Android browsers vulnerable to ‘FREAK attack’
- Sony set to launch virtual-reality headset
- Record number of US firms call China top bet
- Honey, we shrank the SUV — and Europe loves it
- Taiwan Business Quick Take
- India announces another surprise interest rate cut
- Japanese firms hold off on raises
- Salary gap widens most in North America, Asia: study
- Ubisoft game aims to be what the doctor ordered
- Oil decline seen by A.T. Kearney to spur M&A spree
- Japan slams brakes on Uber service pilot project
- World Business Quick Take
- Machine tool exports to rise 10%: TAMI
- January export orders surged 8.1 percent: MOEA
- Lenovo squares up to Xiaomi for China sales
EDITORIAL: China flight route heightens tensions
China has unilaterally created a new flight route, M503, along the Taiwan...FULL STORY
- Oversight rules are long overdue
- KMT is facing political meltdown
- Claims over victory in Pacific war are hollow
- Malawi’s parents toil in the field to keep daughters in school
- Wal-Mart policy of raising wages should inspire other firms
- EDITORIAL: The irony of the KMT infighting
- Christianity is thriving in China
- KMT still in denial over 228 killings
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- Germany, France on friendly terms as Merkel, Hollande click
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- EDITORIAL: Left-wing parties light the third way
- Authorities neglect water issues
- Karma is the key to compromise
- Vocal rally over China’s contentious flight routes
- Fifty years on from US troops’ arrival, a new, dynamic Vietnam flourishes
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Australia post 417, World Cup record
Australia hit the highest Cricket World Cup score in tournament history yesterday...FULL STORY
- Benteke penalty moves Villa out of bottom three
- Taiwan’s Chang makes semis in Malaysia
- James stars, Cavaliers destroy Celtics
- Saint-Etienne in Coupe de France semis
- Devils win 3-1, deal Predators fourth straight loss
- Pacquiao favored over Mayweather
- Immobile double puts Dortmund into DFB Pokal quarters
- India star batsman Kohli shouts at wrong reporter
- Alonso to miss Australian Grand Prix
- Mealamu to set record for Super Rugby appearances
- Greek clubs to unveil plan to tackle violence
- Jarryd Hayne inks three-year deal with the 49ers
- German soccer in the spotlight due to doping allegations
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- Amla, Du Plessis star in massive win
- Roma earn point against Juventus
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Indian state blocks beef
The state that includes Mumbai, India’s financial capital, this week became the...FULL STORY
- Australian smugglers on Indonesia’s death row arrive at execution island
- India censors documentary on deadly Delhi gang rape over rapist’s remarks
- West vows response to truce violations
- Blast at Donetsk coal mine kills at least 30 in Ukraine
- Study links Syrian unrest to drought, climate change
- UHRP says more than 450 killed in Xinjiang last year
- Beijing tells Hong Kong to protect Chinese tourists
- Parisians shop upstairs as mass graves exhumed
- Netanyahu draws rebuke from Obama
- Colombia detains Chinese vessel
- Chinese ‘birth tourism’ prompts raid
- Former head of CIA admits to sharing US military secrets
- Police in Ferguson violate rights of blacks: US report
- Probe of politicians sought in Brazil
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- Top Indian and Pakistani diplomats holding talks
- Human feces, urine piling up on Everest, official says
Australian farmers struggle through drought
On the road to Walgett a sign welcomes visitors: “Farming is not...FULL STORY
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Speed controls along highway 16
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A picture showing how police in Jiji Township, Nantou County, are fighting...FULL STORY
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