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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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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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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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TSMC dismisses reports on SMIC intervention

TAIPEI, Nov 21 (Reuters) - TSMC, the world's biggest contract chipmaker, dismissed in a statement recent media reports that it will intervene in SMIC's operations or join the Chinese rival's board. SMIC, China's largest...

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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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Taiwan tropical isle going green with vehicle ban

TAIPEI (Reuters Life!) - Travelers to a tiny tropical island off Taiwan can soon expect the air quality to match the pristine marine attractions under an initiative to replace gasoline-powered vehicles with electric ones.

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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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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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23 per cent of Taiwan city kids have considered suicide

Taipei - Twenty-three per cent of Taiwan's city children have considered suicide due to school pressure and family problems, a survey showed. The Child Welfare League Foundation surveyed 1,547 primary school pupils across...

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China Mobile and SingTel pick up suppliers for LTE trial networks

Daniel Shen, Taipei; Steve Shen, DIGITIMES [Friday 20 November 2009] Two leading carriers in Asia, China Mobile and Singapore Telecommunication (SingTel), have kicked off roll-outs of their LTE trial networks, attracting the...

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