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A strong typhoon swept across Taiwan on Sunday, injuring more than 80 people, forcing the capital to shut down essential services and knocking out power to hundreds of thousands of homes. Forty people were trapped in the southern parts of the (...)

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Save a tree or two, use Taiwan erasable paper
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09 - 08 - 2011
Defying tradition, woman marries self
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26 - 10 - 2010
Taiwan, China agree terms of trade deal
A landmark trade deal between Taiwan and China will cut tariffs on more than 800 products and open up service industries, officials and sources said on Thursday, giving a major boost to around $100 billion in annual two-way trade. The most (...)

25 - 06 - 2010
Yellow goop was bee droppings
After being stung by complaints, Taiwanese officials have traced the mysterious yellow gunk that has splattered cars and laundry for weeks to a seasonal influx of bees, and their droppings. Bees attracted to farms and plant nurseries near the (...)

20 - 03 - 2010
Imperial Chinese treasures worth their salt
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03 - 03 - 2010
Taiwan couple builds school with wastepaper
conscious couple in Taiwan has opened a small schoolhouse built with donated newspapers fed through a homemade blender, the chief architect said Wednesday. Canadian-born John Lamorie and his Taiwanese wife, Shelly Wu, used more than 1,000 kg of (...)

07 - 01 - 2010
Taiwan tower seeks green award
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05 - 01 - 2010
At beauty contest, it's all about men
Swimwear, evening wear and polished lines will decide the winner of an international beauty pageant in Taiwan this weekend, but dresses, eyeshadow and long hair are out - this contest is only for men. After two weeks of practicing dance steps and (...)

17 - 12 - 2009
Rare shrimp sells for $830 in Taiwan
Rare tiny black and white shrimp raised in Taiwan are selling for as much as $830 a piece to collectors in Japan, despite short life spans and problems breeding, officials at an exhibition said on Friday. The black King Kong shrimp, about 2,000 of (...)

07 - 11 - 2009
Bottles reborn as blankets at charity
A plastic bottle thrown into a Taipei recycling bin could be reincarnated as a blanket to warm disaster victims in any of 20 countries, thanks to a unique project. The Taiwan Buddhist Tzu Chi Foundation has been taking plastic bottles from the (...)

06 - 11 - 2009
Direct marketing gainsnew influence in Asia
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04 - 11 - 2009
Probe after Taiwan students eat fire, step on glass
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23 - 10 - 2009
Airbag in watch to save in water
Airbags save lives on the road, and a Taiwanese inventor who has embedded one in a wristwatch hopes they will do the same in the water. Tseng Tze-kui, a water sports enthusiast for more than three decades, came up with the idea of the inflatable (...)

23 - 07 - 2009
4-year-old wins a dream island
year-old boy has won the use of an uninhabited tropical island, with white sand beaches and clear turquoise waters, in a Taiwan lottery aimed at boosting spending during an economic downturn. Officials said Yeh Chien-wei, who won the prize at (...)

09 - 03 - 2009
The town where Barbie rules
She effectively left town more than 20 years ago, but Barbie is still the queen of a Taiwan town whose fortunes were once linked to the slender doll, and where many people just can't forget her. Suburban Taishan, a short drive away from the capital (...)

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