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Staff from the member airlines of Star Alliance, the world's biggest airline grouping, pose for a group photo during a ceremony of Taiwan's EVA Airways joining the alliance at a hangar in Taoyuan, northern Taiwan, on June 18, 2013. EVA Airways, an air carrier affiliated with Taiwan's Evergreen group, joined Star Alliance to boost its flight networking worldwide.
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George has passed him after a three-year college career ... He got to play in the Cape Cod League. He got to play in Japan and Taiwan [with Team USA]. He has some unbelievable experiences. And, oh by the way, George ended up signing for a $1 million more [$2.23 million with the Astros compared to Hewitt's $1.38 million].
We will continue our efforts to make Taiwan a normal state through correcting its national title, formulating a new constitution and joining the United Nations
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2 men indicted in failed train bombing in Taiwan
-- Prosecutors in Taiwan have indicted two men on charges of planting cyanide-tainted bombs on a high-speed train and at a lawmaker's office.The devices failed to explode.The Xinbei Prosecutors' Office said late Thursday that Hu Tsung-hsien arranged for Chu Read more »
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China gives Costa Rica $900M credit for refinery
and has been rewarded with projects and visits by two sitting Chinese presidents since it first recognized the Asian giant over Taiwan in 2007.The refinery, in Puerto Limon, is small and old and refines about 18,000 barrels of imported crude a day. The remodel Read more »
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Quakes kill 1 in Taiwan, injure 9 in Philippines
in the central and southern regions. The magnitude-6.3 quake's epicenter was near Jenai township in Nantou County in central Taiwan, about 250 kilometers (155 miles) south of Taipei, the Central Weather Bureau said.In Mountain Ali in the southern part of the Read more »
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Taiwan military holds drills amid row with Manila
brushed aside an apology by Manila -- the second in 24 hours -- as insufficient and insincere. As a result, a series of Taiwanese sanctions imposed on the Philippines -- a hiring freeze placed on Philippine workers coming to Taiwan, the recall of Taiwan's Read more »
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Taiwan rejects Manila apology for fisherman death
on the fisherman's death, part of its efforts to emphasize its claims of sovereignty over the island of 23 million people. Taiwan has so far resisted those attempts.On Wednesday the spokesman for the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council in Beijing repeated Read more »
Around the web
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Taiwan businesses still in dark about China services accord: DPP
Democratic Progressive Party said Wednesday. The Straits Exchange Foundation and China’s Association for Relations across the Taiwan Straits are scheduled to conclude the accord at their twice-a-year round of negotiations which opens in Shanghai June 20, but 40 m ago from eTaiwan News Read more »
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U.S. House passes legislation backing Taiwan's ICAO bid
the legislation, said Taiwan's exclusion from the ICAO is extremely disadvantageous to the millions of passengers flying between Taiwan and the United States every year. The passage of the bill is "a significant step towards ensuring that Taiwan's airports 40 m ago from eTaiwan News Read more »
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ASUS VivoBook S551 Ultrabook, a 15.6-Inch System with NVIDIA Graphics
an international trade show, Computex 2013, which took place in Taipei, Taiwan between June 4 and 8, didn't really bring about the release of that many new computers. Slowly, however, the list of products grows. Ultrabooks were a surprise all on their own, 55 m ago from Softpedia Read more »
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HTC Butterfly S official, packs Snapdragon 600 & Ultrapixel camera
expected, HTC today took the wraps off Butterfly S smartphone at a press event in Taiwan. An upgraded version of the company’s original HTC Butterfly, the smartphone offers significant improvements in various departments. The new HTC Butterfly S runs on Jelly 3:06 AM from AndroidOS.in Read more »
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Public Outcry In Taiwan Kills Their Version Of SOPA
Leigh Beadon: @GM their segment name of "Good News! You're Not Paranoid" was especially great, i thought :) Great Mizuti: @Leigh definitely. they did not lose their edge with the replacement host (i suppose no sign they should have, same writers probably) 2:43 AM from Techdirt Read more »
