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KMT CALLS FOR END TO SPECULATION ABOUT CROSS-STRAIT CHARTER FLIGHTS
TAIPEI, May 9 Asia Pulse - Kuomintang (KMT) Chairman Wu Poh-hsiung urged the public Thursday not to dwell too much on a possible delay in the opening of direct weekend charter flights between Taiwan...

TAIWAN'S PENGHU ISLAND ANTICIPATES CASINO-TOURISM DEVELOPMENT
TAIPEI, May 9 Asia Pulse - The Penghu county government is planning to have plots of public land ready for the construction of gambling casinos on the offshore island, Penghu Magistrate Wang Chien-fa...

TAIWAN PRODUCED GRAPE WINE WINS INTERNATIONAL AWARD
TAIPEI, May 8 Asia Pulse - Love Rose, a grape wine submitted by the Puli Township Farmers' Association to the 2008 Brussels international wine competition, won a silver medal -- the first award ever...

HONG KONG POISED TO BE HUB FOR ASIA'S GROWING WINE TRADE
HONG KONG, May 7 Asia Pulse - Asia's wine market will expand by 10-20 per cent over the next five years, with growth led by China, Hong Kongh, Taiwan, Singapore and Korea, according to Hong Kong's...

AMERICAN INSTITUTE IN TAIWAN RECRUITS BUYERS FOR US FOOD EXPO
TAIPEI, May 7 Asia Pulse - The American Institute in Taiwan (AIT) is recruiting for an International Buyer Program (IBP) that will attend the IFT Food Expo to be held in New Orleans, Louisiana June...

TAIWAN YOUNG DESIGNERS' EXHIBITION TO OPEN MAY 15
TAIPEI, May 7 Asia Pulse - The 2008 Young Designers' Exhibition (YODEX), which will take place at the Taipei World Trade Center May 15-18, will showcase the latest creations by students from home and...

PRIVATE UNIVERSITY GRADS SCORE HIGHER IN EMPLOYER SURVEY
TAIPEI, May 7 Asia Pulse - Graduates of Taiwan's private universities have generally been better received by employers than their counterparts from public universities, according to the results of a...

TAIWAN CUSTOMS OFFICIALS SEIZE 1,000 COUNTERFEIT BRAKE PADS
KEELUNG, May 7 Asia Pulse - The Keelung Customs Office in northeastern Taiwan announced Tuesday that its officials had seized nearly 1,000 counterfeit brake discs bearing the marques of Volkswagen,...

TAIWAN MIDDLE-AGED WORKFORCE INCREASED IN PAST DECADE: OFFICIAL
TAIPEI, May 6 Asia Pulse - The middle-aged employed population -- people aged 45-64 -- in 2007 reached 3.26 million, an increase of 45.97 per cent compared with the 2.23 million registered in 1997, a...

TAIWAN AND JAPAN SIGN AVIATION SAFETY AGREEMENT
TAIPEI, May 6 Asia Pulse - Taiwan and Japan signed an aviation agreement Monday to promote exchanges on aviation safety and cooperation in the investigation of airline accidents, the Ministry of...

TAIWAN LAWMAKERS URGE CONSUMERS TO BUY LOCAL COCONUTS
TAIPEI, May 5 Asia Pulse - Ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) legislators called on the public Friday to consume Taiwan-grown coconuts, saying that they are both fresh and safe. DPP...

HUNDREDS COMPETE FOR 15 AIR MACAU FLIGHT ATTENDANT JOBS
TAIPEI, May 5 Asia Pulse - Some 700 applicants showed up at an Air Macau recruitment drive Saturday to fill 15 flight attendant vacancies. The Macau-based Air Macau operates 10 flights between...

TAIWAN FLOWER GROWER HOPES TO MAINTAIN CARNATION SALES
KAOHSIUNG, May 5 Asia Pulse - With the coming of Mother's Day, a floral company expressed the hope Friday that this year's carnation sales can be maintained at around 1 million flowers as in past...

KAOHSIUNG COUNTY COUNCILORS PROMOTE TAIWAN FRUIT
KAOHSIUNG, May 5 Asia Pulse - Kaohsiung County Council Speaker Hsu Fu-sen and Deputy Speaker Lu Shu-mei dressed up as farmers Friday to promote local fruit to foreign representatives attending a...

TAIWAN LABOR GROUPS CALL FOR SHORTER WORKING HOURS
TAIPEI, May 5 Asia Pulse - The Taiwan Confederation of Trade Unions (TCTU) called again Sunday for the incoming administration of President-elect Ma Ying-jeou to cut the current workweek from 42...

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