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Lin makes sure old news is good news for environment

CONFRONTED with an ever-growing pile of old newspapers, Taiwan fashion designer Colin Lin came up with the idea of using them to make shoes and tote bags for her environmentally friendly footwear company. Lin, 50, says they are now hot items in ...

From ANNIE HUANG, Shanghai Daily,  20 Nov 2009

Taiwan firm uses recycled paper in shoemaking

TAIPEI, Taiwan - 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. ...

From ANNIE HUANG, Atlanta Journal Constitution Vendor,  20 Nov 2009

Say it ain't so Tsao: Baseball scandal hits Taiwan

TAIPEI, Taiwan - Authorities are investigating whether Taiwanese baseball players accepted bribes to fix games, a prosecutor said Tuesday, the latest blow to the integrity of the sport on the baseball-loving island. ...

From ANNIE HUANG, Atlanta Journal Constitution Vendor,  27 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Los Angeles Dodgers

Taiwan, China to negotiate signing trade agreement

Taiwan and China are expected to begin formal talks on signing a wide-ranging trade agreement by next spring or earlier after Beijing publicly sanctioned the negotiations, officials said Monday. Liu Teh-hsiun, a vice chairman of Taiwan's ...

From ANNIE HUANG, Taiwan News,  26 Oct 2009

Taiwan looks back at Nationalist defeat in 1949

On a chilly late autumn day in 1949, Chi Shih-ying jumped on one of the last flights to Taiwan, joining other senior members of the Nationalist Party in a humiliating retreat from China. In all, 1.2 million people fled to the island 160km off the ...

From ANNIE HUANG, Taiwan News,  3 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Ma Ying-jeou

Boy held over cutting hands off dad

A TAIWAN boy, 17, has been arrested for chopping off his father's hands, allegedly to avenge years of abuse. The boy cut through his father's wrists with a knife while he was asleep at the family's home in central Miaoli on Monday, a police official ...

From ANNIE HUANG, Shanghai Daily,  29 Sep 2009

Taiwan to lift flat-panel ban

TAIWAN plans to allow its flat panel makers and chip companies to invest in the Chinese mainland to help them secure the mainland market, an island official in charge of the economy has said. With a huge television market, the mainland has been ...

From ANNIE HUANG, Shanghai Daily,  29 Sep 2009

Police: Taiwan teen chops off dad's hands

A 17-year-old Taiwanese boy has been arrested for chopping off his father's hands, allegedly to avenge years of physical abuse, a police official said Tuesday. The boy cut through his father's wrists with a knife while he was asleep at the family' ...

From ANNIE HUANG, eTaiwan News,  29 Sep 2009

Taiwan to let chip, panel makers invest in China

Taiwan plans to allow its flat panel makers and chip companies to invest in China to help them secure the mainland market, the economics minister has said. With a huge television market, China has been anxious to look for a foreign partner to ...

From ANNIE HUANG, Taiwan News,  29 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Ma Ying-jeou

Typhoon-hit Taiwan starts to rebuild

FIVE weeks after Taiwan's worst storm in half a century killed hundreds of people and buried hundreds of village homes in mudslides, the massive task of reconstruction has only just begun. Sections of densely forested mountain slopes are bare where ...

From ANNIE HUANG, Shanghai Daily,  16 Sep 2009

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