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Travel Postcard: Hiking around Jade Mountain, Taiwan

TAIPEI (Reuters Life!) - Jade Mountain, northeast Asia's highest peak and Taiwan's sole finalist for a "New 7 Wonders of the World" award, remains an alluring mystery due to its remoteness and tough permitting rules.

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11. Shoes made of recycled paper, not cheap US$100 a pair

TAIPEI: Confronted with an ever-growing pile of old newspapers, Taiwanese fashion designer Colin Lin came up with the idea of using them to make shoes and tote bags for her environmentally friendly footwear company.

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Media Tek seals patent deal with Qualcomm, shares rise

Taiwan's largest chipmaker MediaTek Inc on Friday reached a broad patent agreement on third-generation (3G) chips with US rival Qualcomm without paying royalties, the firm said in a statement on its website.

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Taiwanese trust Obama more than their own president: Survey

Taipei, Nov 20 : A majority of Taiwan residents have more trust in US President Barack Obama than in their own president or Chinese President Hu Jintao, an opinion poll showed Friday. The telephone survey of 1,004 adults by the...

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ASIA/TAIWAN - The celebrations for the 150th anniversary of the evangelization of Taiwan have ...

Taipei (Agenzia Fides) - On the afternoon of Saturday, November 21, Solemnity of Christ the King, Special Envoy of Pope Benedict XVI, Cardinal Jozef Tomko, Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples,...

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Second Taiwan baseball team sacks players over match fixing

Taipei - Taiwan's La New Bears baseball team sacked five more players over alleged match fixing Friday, as the illegal betting scandal snowballs and implicates more players. In a statement, La Mew Bears said that after firing...

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Taiwan Central Bank: Taiwan Dollar Rising Persistently Vs Won

TAIPEI -(Dow Jones)- The New Taiwan dollar has been rising persistently against the Korean won, Yen Tzung-Ta, director general of the Taiwan central bank's department of economic research, said Friday. Korea is Taiwan's major...

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Former Interior Minister Yu Cheng-hsien gets two-year suspended sentence for corruption

Former Interior Minister Yu Cheng-hsien was sentenced to two years in prison suspended for five years yesterday in one of the corruption scandals surrounding jailed ex-President Chen Shui-bian. The Taipei District Court also...

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Why Buy A Pegatron Smartbook? AQUIC.

At today’s ARM Connected Community Technical Symposium 2009 in Taipei, Pegatron GM Chou Biao Sheng announced that Pegatron will be releasing a 10-inch ARM smartbook running Ubuntu, set to hit retailers as early as next year....

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Dell demand pick ups "substantially" after Windows 7 launch

TAIPEI, Nov 20 (Reuters) - Dell , the world's No.3 PC seller, said on Friday that demand for its PCs picked up "quite substantially" following the launch of Microsoft's new Windows 7 operating system in October.

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