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  Taipei Times - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Taipei Times is one of the three English-language newspapers in Taiwan, the other two being the Taiwan News and the China Post.
Established in 1999, it is published by the Liberty Times group, which also publishes the Chinese language newspaper the Liberty Times.
Along with such newspapers as The Guardian, it is a participant of Project Syndicate, established by George Soros.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Taipei_Times   (177 words)

  
 Liberty Times - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Liberty Times (Chinese: 自由時報, pinyin: Zìyóu-shíbào) is a newspaper published in Taiwan in Traditional Chinese.
It is published by the Liberty Times group, which also publishes the English language newspaper the Taipei Times.
Like the Taipei Times and in contrast to the China Times and United Daily News, it is widely regarded as taking an editorial line that leans toward the pan-Green Coalition.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Liberty_Times   (121 words)

  
 Taipei Times: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
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www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/ta/taipei_times.htm   (447 words)

  
 Taipei - New York Times
The people, too, embody all the complexities of a country that is at once forward-looking and historically aware, internationally plugged in but diplomatically isolated, and as multiculturally hybrid (influences include China, Japan and the United States) as it is full of hometown pride.
WHERE TO EAT People in Taipei are so obsessed with food that they won't leave the house without the promise of a dumpling or a plate of stinky tofu (yes, it's a real dish) at their destination.
The epitome of today's Taipei, however, is Taipei 101, 7 Xinyi Road, Section 5, (886-2) 8101-8898; currently the world's tallest building, a 1,671-foot behemoth that may have disturbed an ancient fault line on the earthquake-prone island.
travel2.nytimes.com /2006/02/12/travel/12going.html   (906 words)

  
 Asia Times Online - News from greater China; Hong Kong and Taiwan
In Taipei this was regarded as the harshest, most decisive expression of this principle made for some time, at least during the administration of US President George W Bush.
No sooner had Taipei received the news of Powell's interview than the opposition simply refused to deal with the bill, which means it is suspended at least until January and, unless the pro-government parties win the majority in the legislature they now lack, it may simply be dead.
Laurence Eyton is the deputy editor in chief of the Taipei Times newspaper and a columnist for the Chinese-language Taiwan Daily.
www.atimes.com /atimes/China/FJ30Ad03.html   (1587 words)

  
 Taipei Post
Taipei Times The US Federal Reserve's move to raise interest rates this week is not expected to have much of an i...
Taipei Times Japanese police said yesterday that a Taiwanese student who was found dead on Thursday after having...
Taipei Times A pregnant 31-year-old housewife sat the national college entrance examination at a school in Kaohsi...
archive.wn.com /2004/07/03/1400/taipeipost   (522 words)

  
 Greenpeace Flays US
EPA officials told the Taipei Times yesterday, however, that the shipped waste, amounting to about 100 tonnes, had already been treated properly in an undisclosed European county, and that all related information would be released when the procedures are completed.
Members of the team told the Taipei Times that the point of that meeting is to review plans for a mercury-recovery machine the company is to purchase.
Officials from EPA's Bureau of Solid Waste Control told the Taipei Times that the company has still not given up the possibility of treating the waste abroad, as negotiations between the company and residents nearby its facility in Kaohsiung are not complete.
www.ban.org /ban_news/environmentalists.html   (779 words)

  
 Military Balance and Arms Sales
(Taipei Times, June 26, 2003) The question of Taiwan purchasing US-supplied diesel submarines apparently has been put on the back burner as a result of the high costs of the vessels and difficulties in getting a country to supply the technology and build the submarines.
(Taipei Times, June 3, 2003) The Legislative Yuan has freed the navy's budget for the purchase of four Kidd-class destroyers from the US after the navy agreed to cut the budget by 15 percent to meet opposition lawmakers' demands.
(Taipei Times, May 13, 2003) The military is becoming interested in two unmanned aerial vehicles being developed by the a military technology institute for surveillance purposes.
www.taiwansecurity.org /TSR-Arms-2003.htm   (3813 words)

  
 SurfWax: News, Reviews and Articles On Sanchung
The Taipei City Government's Department of Rapid Transit Systems and the MRT contractors must share responsibility for their negligence, which caused the flooding in Sanchung during Typhoon Aere, according to the final investigation report released yesterday by the Taiwan...
Taipei City Government officials yesterday said that the Department of Rapid Transit Systems had not avoided responsibility for the flooding of Sanchung in a preliminary report released on Monday, saying the department was just providing facts to the investigation team.
Taipei City Government's Depart-ment of Rapid Transit Systems yesterday alleged that MRT contractors did not adequately install an underground conduit box -- which functions as a drain for the Sanchung City MRT construction site -- thus causing Sanchung to be hit by a overpowering volume of floodwater...
news.surfwax.com /worldcities/files/Sanchung_Taiwan.html   (1371 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The Taipei Times was launched on June 15, 1999, and is an affiliate of Taiwan's largest newspaper, the Liberty Times, and follows the Liberty Times' "Taiwan First, Liberty Foremost" concept, emphasizing professional, non-partisan reporting.
Other awards received in the same period were from the New York Times and Canada's National Post, not only demonstrating the high standard of the Taipei Times' reporting, editing and design, but also showing that the Taipei Times' professional design standard is able to compete with the best English-language newspapers in the world.
The Taipei Times web site has been in operation since September 1999, and is located at www.taipeitimes.com.
ecommerce.taipeitimes.com /ecom/6th/index_html   (206 words)

  
 Taipei Times: Falun Gong says 90 on blacklist | Clearharmony - Falundafa in Europe
The Taipei Times is a newspaper in Taiwan.
TAIPEI (AP) July 3 --- Hong Kong police have expelled more than 90 Taiwanese [practitioners] of the Falun Gong meditation group, who planned to protest in the Chinese territory, a [practitioner] said yesterday.
Also expelled from Hong Kong's airport on Monday were about 30 other Taiwanese tourists who were mistaken for Falun Gong [practitioners] because they had the same names as those on a fllist, said Chang Ching-hsi, [contact person] of the group's Taiwan branch.
www.clearharmony.net /articles/200207/5523.html   (356 words)

  
 Taipei Business
Taipei Times They were not happy about the size of the stage, but the show must go on and the performers of Beiji...
Taipei Times This sounds familiar: You've come to Taipei to see the sights, but end up seeing a lot of rather uns...
TAIPEI - Trade between Taiwan and China in the four months to April rose 33.5% from a year...
archive.wn.com /2004/07/03/1400/taipeibusiness   (597 words)

  
 The Taipei Times Online: 2001-03-17
On Oct. 29, 2000, three men used chi gung and their penises to pull a flatbed delivery truck across part of a Taipei parking lot.
Tu said he learned the method in Taipei about 25 years ago from Wu Zhen (®©¯u), a Taoist monk who'd come to Taiwan from Mt Omei (®oØÝ¤s) in Sichuan Province.
On occasion, in front of local TV cameras or in front of international audiences, he would break 10 blocks of ice with a single fist or a wooden board with a single finger.
www.gapsn.org /project2/press/The%20Taipei%20Times%20Online%202001-03-17.htm   (1822 words)

  
 FalunInfo.Net - Taipei Times Editorial: Human rights trump sovereignty   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
(Taipei Times) Recently the Taiwan High Court, on grounds of "mistaken jurisdiction," rejected a lawsuit filed by Taiwanese practitioners of Falun Gong against former Chinese Communist Party leader Jiang Zemin and others.
From ancient times, nations have always been viewed as the primary unit in international politics.
At the same time, he adopted a policy of ethnic cleansing that resulted in massive casualties and led to armed intervention by NATO.
www.faluninfo.net /displayAnArticle.asp?ID=8418   (825 words)

  
 Ride For Life: 'Taipei Times' wins journalism award for ALS coverage
Taipei Times Editor in Chief Rick Chu was presented with the 2002 Brighter Society Journalism Award yesterday.
This is the first time in the 10-year history of the award, organized by the Taipei Journalists' Association, that an English-language daily has won.
Since its inception more than three years ago, the Taipei Times has won an award from the Society of Newspaper Design for three consecutive years.
www.rideforlife.com /archives/000200.html   (429 words)

  
 Taipei Times to President Chen: Editorial: Focus on economics, not wordplay
Taipei Times to President Chen: Editorial: Focus on economics, not wordplay
Li Weiyi (§õºû¤@), spokesman of China's Taiwan Affairs Office, departed from Beijing previous line of intimidation in his response, for the first time appealing to the people of Taiwan by saying that Chen's remarks will affect Taiwan's economy and therefore the economic interests of the people.
Chen has stressed many times that the economy is his priority.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/731475/posts   (863 words)

  
 Taiwan :: China Digital Times (CDT) 中国数字时代
The Mayor of Taipei and head of the nationalist KMT Party, Ma Ying-jeou, says Taiwan's Presidential election in 2008 will be a chance to step away from the confrontation policies of the current Taiwanese Government.
Ma Ying-jeou, the popular mayor of Taipei and chairman of the opposition Kuomintang, has just spent a week in the US explaining to politicians, think tanks and universities his views on the issue the international community cares most about: relations with China.
As Taipei moves to tighten supervision of cross-strait economic exchanges, bankers and business leaders are warning that companies might be forced to minimise their ties with China or retreat from it altogether.
chinadigitaltimes.net /taiwan   (7773 words)

  
 The Taipei Times Online: 2001-08-29   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The man, Eyal Cohen, has patented what may be thought of as a very expensive, computerized sandwich board that screws onto the roof of a cab, and that over the next few months will increasingly begin to invade whatever small part of pedestrians' brains is not already ad-saturated.
But consider these facts: There are 12,187 medallion cabs in the city and the billboards atop the cabs are, conveniently, at about eye level.
Of course, it is not at all certain whether New Yorkers, who find advertisements even in public restrooms or phone booths, really want to feel that a multinational conglomerate is speaking to them personally as they cross the street.
www.adaptmedia.net /The%20Taipei%20Times%20Online%202001-08-29.htm   (802 words)

  
 Taipei Times Editorial: Vanuatu - More open diplomacy needed
Due to the ministry's rash announcement, Taipei and Beijing staged a diplomatic battle on the world stage.
This situation was caused by procedural flaws and should serve as a reminder of what not to do when seeking diplomatic allies.
Vohor has not attempted to hide the fact that his decision to sign the joint communique in Taipei was done in exchange for financial support.
news.vu /en/news/diplomacy/041117-taipei-times-editorial-vanuatu.shtml   (486 words)

  
 classical music - andante - disabled musicians honored in taipei
The Taipei Times / andante - 26 August 2003
Taiwan's Nationwide Music Competition for the Disabled came to a close in Taipei on Sunday, the Taipei Times reports.
The disabilities of the competitors ranged from blindness and deafness to cerebral palsy and autism.
www.andante.com /article/article.cfm?id=21953   (203 words)

  
 The Taipei Times Online: 2000-02-27   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The son of a New Zealander donated his father's manuscript titled Formosa Calling, Chronicle of Taiwan's 2-28 Incident, to the 228 Memorial Museum in Taipei yesterday, on the eve of the 53rd anniversary of the 1947 massacre.
A portion of the manuscript focuses on his eye witness accounts of the 1947 tragedy, detailing atrocities that took place in southern Taiwan.
The 228 Incident refers to the KMT's bloody crackdown on civilian demonstrations in 1947 that followed an incident in Taipei on Feb. 28 of that year.
www.formosa.org /~taiwanpg/fc/shackleton-tt.htm   (606 words)

  
 FalunInfo.Net - Taipei Times: Falun Gong Practitioners Meditate While Holding Glow Sticks During Yesterday's Protest at ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Taipei Times: Falun Gong Practitioners Meditate While Holding Glow Sticks During Yesterday's Protest at Taipei's Ta-an Forest Park.
Hundreds of Falun Gong practitioners and followers gathered in Taipei last night to light candles and watch artistic performances to observe the third anniversary of the ban of the group in China.
DPP Taipei City Mayoral candidate Lee Ying-yuan also participated in the ceremonies.
www.faluninfo.net /displayAnArticle.asp?ID=5970   (343 words)

  
 Singapore has betrayed Taiwan: Taipei Times
Singapore's leaders, in particular during the tenure of former prime minister Goh Chok Tong, ignored the multifaceted good relations between Singapore and Taiwan and instead openly said that Taiwan is not a nation.
At the time, no East Asian nation, nor the US or the UK, opposed Singaporean independence on the grounds that it would threaten regional stability.
Nor should we forget that Singapore at the time also was trying to dispel suspicions of being a fifth column working for China overseas.
www.singapore-window.org /sw04/041006tt.htm   (942 words)

  
 台灣部落格 TWBLOG.NET: The Taipei Times sends a memo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
For the playa haters on Taiwan’s largest expat web forum (www.forumosa.com), where threads such as “The Taipei Times Sucks” have garnered so much traffic that they’ve been restarted several times, this was just another nail in the coffin, proof that the Taipei Times is unquestionably biased and worthy of their scorn.
The evening that the email was sent, one Taipei Times reporter said that “there was a lot of whispering in the office.
One of the recipients was Tim Culpan, a former editor at TT who still lives in Taipei freelancing for the SCMP, the Washington Post, and other publications.
www.twblog.net /archives/000975.html   (724 words)

  
 Voice of a Native Son: Taipei Times - archives
Taipei Times - archives: "Colonial period should not be glorified: forum
Taipei City Government's Department of Cultural Affairs held a forum yesterday to discuss the 'bizarre glorification' of the Japanese colonial era and also to remind the public of the 'truth' behind the modernization of Taiwan.
Taiwan was under Japanese rule for 51 years -- from 1895 to 1945, and many past studies have shown that the Japanese carried out extensive development of Taiwan in areas such as railroads, agricultural research and development and public health and education."
angryindian.blogspot.com /2005/11/taipei-times-archives.html   (150 words)

  
 Taipei Times: Japanese Doughnut Chain Enters Taiwan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Read the article in http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/biz/archives/2004/09/30/2003204994 Japan's Duskin Co. planned to open its first doughnut outlet on October 1st in Tienmu District of Taipei with an aim to generate NT$60,000 in sales a day during its initial stage.
Kevin Lin, president of Mister Donut Taiwan Co. said "we hope to sell 2,000 to 3,000 doughnuts per day." The second outlet is scheduled to be opened in Taipei's Breeze Center in November, and President Chain Store Corp. plans to break even in 2 years for the NT$200 million venture.
What actually happened can be read in Apple Daily article http://www.appledaily.com.tw/template/twapple/art_main.cfm?loc=TP&showdate=20041010&art_id=1295743 * It seems any time you go to the Tienmu outlet, there are 150 people in line for buying the doughnuts.
www.talkaboutculture.com /group/alt.culture.taiwan/messages/10133.html   (245 words)

  
 Durian Nation: Glocally Speaking: The Taipei Times
Gerrit's wildly sophomoric attempts at satirical comparisons with regard to the crisis here in Taiwan on the Taipei Times letters page may explain why the publication died.
She has also said that she needs to "wash" my brain and de-program me because I always listen to the Taipei Times but that is quite unnecessary.
When the Taipei Times first went into print, those folks shook the other two English language dailies out of their lethargy with sharp presentations and on the spot reporting in Indonesia, for example, among many other things.
duriannation.typepad.com /durian_nation_glocally_sp/2004/04/the_taipei_time.html   (351 words)

  
 FalunInfo.Net - Taipei Times: An inside look at China's censorship   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
In one instance, a story several months ago on the Taipei Times Web site on Falun Gong in Taiwan could not be downloaded while the rest of the Web site was accessible.
As advanced as the system is, the government at times finds it necessary to block entire sites.
The waste of resources in blocking foreign news content is eclipsed, though, by the lengths to which the government goes to keep the domestic media in line.
www.faluninfo.net /displayAnArticle.asp?ID=7159   (936 words)

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