Taipei city is seen among dust storm Wednesday morning, March 17, 2010. A wave of sandstorms hit Taiwan Tuesday, affecting the air quality, according to the Environmental Protection Administration. (AP Photo/Chiang YIng-ying) Copyright 2010 AP News
TAIPEI (Reuters Life!) - 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 ...
FILE - In this July 4, 2008 file photo, a bank employee counts Chinese Yuan currency in Taipei, Taiwan. China on Tuesday, March 16, 2010, rejected U.S. calls to ease currency controls and said criticism would not help efforts to end the ...
Taiwan's national museum on Monday said it would not lend its half of a famous ancient painting to China for an exhibition because it feared it would not be returned. The announcement came a day after Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said he ...
Los Angeles Dodgers' popular slugger Manny Ramirez on Sunday led his team to breeze past Taiwan's all-star professional baseball team 11-1 in their last scheduled exhibition game. Ramirez displayed his striking power before some 15,000 fans packing the Chenchinghu baseball stadium in ...
Rain cancels Dodgers' exhibition game against Taiwan All-Stars in Taipei The second game of a three-game exhibition series between the Los Angeles Dodgers and a team of Taiwanese All-Stars has been canceled because of rain. The Saturday contest was set for Taipei. ...
TAIPEI (Reuters Life!) - A Taiwan potter is producing razor-thin ceramic bowls, raising a historic Chinese art form to a fragile, new high and aiming to sell the 0.2-mm (0.008 inch) thick wares in China at a hefty price. Taipei-area potter Huang ...
TAIPEI (Reuters) - An earthquake of magnitude 6.4 shook Taiwan early on Thursday, injuring 11, stopping transport and causing minor damage and fires in the southern half of the island. The quake caused a brief dip in the island's stock market, with ...
<div><p>TAIPEI (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. and Taiwan's economics ministry said they plan to set up a research center on the island by next year, in the software company's first Asian foray into the budding cloud computing industry.</p><p>Cloud computing -- the hosting and ...
<div><p>TAIPEI (Reuters Life!) - 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 by the world's largest Buddhist charity.</p><p>The Taiwan Buddhist Tzu ...
