By Luis Huang
CNA
May 29, 2005.
The Hong Kong-based Action Committee for Defending the Diaoyuislands (ACDD) is scheduled to launch an expedition to the Tiaoyutai Islands in the East China Sea next month to assert Chinese sovereignty over the island group, ACDD Chairman David Ko said Tuesday.
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CNA
By Sofia Wu
March 28, 2005.
The government will continue to monitor whether the interests and security of Taiwan businessmen operating in China have been affected by Beijing’s enactment of its Anti-Secession Law and will urge Canada’s Parliament to adopt a resolution opposing the law, a senior official said Monday.
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By Janaki Kremmer
The Christian Science Monitor
March 29, 2005.
The Howard government has begun negotiations with Chinese officials to sell uranium to the energy-hungry Asian giant in a deal that is expected to be signed within 12 months.
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By Marshall Auerback
Scoop Independent News
March 23, 2005
Oil prices spiked to record levels last week, propelled by a rally in petrol prices and a cold snap in the northern hemisphere, against the backdrop of a tight balance between supply and demand. Yes, that’s right, basic “supply/demand,” not “political turbulence in the Middle East.”
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Monday Morning (www.mmorning.com)
March 21, 2005.
In a move that marked the final step in China’s leadership transition, Hu, 62, replaced the ageing former leader Jiang Zemin, 78, as chairman of the state’s Central Military Commission (CMC).
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By H.G. Wu and Lilian Wu
CNA
March 21, 2005.
Canada has expressed clearly its opposition to China’s recently passed Anti-Secession Law targeting Taiwan, Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Pierre Pettigrew said Monday.
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By Chiang Chun, S.K. Wu and Flor Wang
CNA
March 21, 2005.
An action committee representing the overseas Taiwanese community in San Francisco urged Taiwan expatriates Monday to participate in a rally March 26 in front of the Chinese consulate general to protest Beijing’s enactment of its Anti-Secession Law aimed at Taiwan.
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By Weng Tsui-ping and Y.F. Low
CNA
March 21, 2005.
Taipei’s representative office in the United States is consulting with foreign countries about the possibility of taking further action against Beijing’s Anti-Secession Law targeting Taiwan after the United Nations failed to make any move on the matter, a Taiwan official based in New York said Monday.
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By Anne Gearan
Canadian Press
March 20, 2005.
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice suggested Sunday that European governments are irresponsible if they sell sophisticated weaponry to China that might one day be used against U.S. forces in the Pacific.
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By Lu Chia-ying
Taiwan News
March 19, 005.
The National Health Insurance program will be maintained despite its financial woes, President Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) vowed yesterday, praising the system as a “treasure of Taiwan.”
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