(ChinaPost.com.tw) - Chinese tourists are boycotting Kaohsiung because of the convergence of some “forces” in the city with separatists from China, a Beijing official said yesterday. [Full Story]
(ChinaPost.com.tw) - Premier Wu Den-yih said yesterday that as a drafter and promoter of policies toward mainland China, the Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) should, if needed, “put on the brake” to ensure the normal and healthy development of ties across the Taiwan Straits. [Full Story]
(ChinaPost.com.tw) - The total value of goods China will procure from Taiwan next year is expected to exceed that of this year, although it will adopt a different procurement approach, China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT) Vice President Zhang Wei said yesterday. [Full Story]
(ChinaPost.com.tw) - It's a price tag that would make even New Yorkers and Londoners gasp — an outsized luxury apartment sold for nearly US$57 million in Hong Kong Wednesday amid growing fears of a real estate bubble. [Full Story]
(ChinaPost.com.tw) - Tibet received a record 4.75 million tourists in the first nine months of this year, state media reported Wednesday, marking a rebound from ethnic rioting and security clampdowns last year that shut the Himalayan region to travelers. [Full Story]
(ChinaPost.com.tw) - India raised the pitch of an increasingly testy row with China over disputed border areas on Tuesday, warning Beijing about its involvement in Pakistan-administered Kashmir. [Full Story]
(ChinaPost.com.tw) - The last of China's first group of generals under the ruling Communist Party has died at the age of 106, state media said Wednesday. [Full Story]
(ChinaPost.com.tw) - Australia's climate change minister said on Wednesday she had urged China's Vice Premier Li Keqiang to expedite the case of four employees of mining giant Rio Tinto, currently held on suspicion of corporate espionage. [Full Story]
(ChinaPost.com.tw) - The United States called Wednesday for more interaction with China's military, as the two nations try to build trust over defense issues amid U.S. concerns about Beijing's rapid military buildup. [Full Story]
(ChinaPost.com.tw) - Four Dutch tourists were killed in the scenic southern Chinese town of Yangshuo on Wednesday when a hot-air balloon exploded and crashed, Chinese state television reported. [Full Story]
