From the Taipei Times, “In an obvious reference to Taiwan, General Xu Caihou (徐才厚), vice chairman of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Central Military Commission, told a Washington audience on Monday that China had to modernize and build its armed forces because the country ‘has yet to realize complete unification.’”
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The Taipei Times reports on a tax cut on carbon dioxide emissions. “The Cabinet’s Tax Reform Committee, which is to hold final discussions on green tax reform on Monday, is set to slash a proposed tax on carbon dioxide emissions from NT$2,000 per tonne to NT$750 per tonne to quell industry resistance.
Chung-Hua [...]
[Taipei Times]– Taiwan has carried out a major missile exercise less than a fortnight after China showed off advanced ballistic weaponry in a massive National Day parade in Beijing, local Chinese-language newspapers reported yesterday. The Presidential Office, however, declined to confirm or deny the reports.
Missiles capable of striking major Chinese cities [...]
[Taipei Times]– The Taiwan High Court yesterday held a second detention hearing on arguments from prosecutors and former president Chen Shui-bian’s (陳水扁) lawyers to determine whether Chen should remain in detention. The hearing was continuing at press time.
After the High Court’s decision on Sept. 24 to keep the former president behind [...]
[Taipei Times]– Taiwan yesterday issued a sea warning for Typhoon Parma, which is expected to affect Taiwan after hitting the Philippines.
By 9pm yesterday, the eye of Parma was 420km southeast of Oluanbi (鵝鑾鼻) Taiwan’s southern tip, the Central Weather Bureau (CWB) said. Moving in a northwesterly direction at 10kph, Parma packs center [...]
[Taipei Times]– The Presidential Office said yesterday it was inappropriate for presidential advisers to attend Beijing’s celebrations marking 60 years of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) rule in China, but stopped short of denouncing or threatening to punish them.
Presidential Office Spokesman Wang Yu-chi (王郁琦) said that he had been informed that the [...]
[Taipei Times]– Minister of Justice Wang Ching-feng (王清峰) said yesterday that prosecutors would look into allegations by former president Chen Shui-bian’s (陳水扁) attorney that Chen was an “agent” of the US government.
Wang made the remarks at a meeting of the legislature’s Judiciary and Organic Laws and Statutes Committee.
She was referring to the [...]
The Taiwan High Court yesterday ruled to keep former president Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) behind bars for another three months, on the grounds that he might flee the country if released.
At 8:45pm last night, an hour later than scheduled, Presiding Judge Teng Chen-chiu (鄧振球) announced the appeals court’s decision to extend Chen’s [...]
Prosecutors yesterday issued another wave of indictments against former president Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁), charging him and four others with embezzlement in a case involving classified diplomatic projects.
The Supreme Prosecutors’ Office’s Special Investigation Panel (SIP), in charge of probing the former president’s corruption and money laundering cases, said it had completed its [...]
The government is pressing for unprecedented mass relocation of residents in high-risk areas to head off any future problems with flooding and mudslides after coming under fire for its slow response to Typhoon Morakot last month.
The central government, still reeling from the deadly typhoon that hurt the reputation of President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九), aims to [...]
