Sean Lien, son of Kuomintang (KMT) party's honorary chairman Lien Chan, was now in stable condition after he was shot in the face Friday night when participating in an election campaign rally in Taipei County.
Some 1.2 million mainlanders will visit Taiwan in 2010, a spokesman for the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council forecast Wednesday.
TAIPEI - An earthquake measuring 5.6 on the Richter Scale hit Taiwan's Hualien at 8:31 pm Beijing Time Sunday, according to the China Earthquake Networks Center.
Directors Ang Lee, Sylvia Chang and actor Jackie Chan pose on the red carpet at the 47th Golden Horse Film Awards in Taoyuan November 20, 2010.
Taiwan applicants for trademark registration on the Chinese mainland can ask for priority rights soon, China's industry and commerce administration authority announced on Thursday.
The Chinese mainland's Taiwan affairs chief said Thursday the implementation of the mainland's 2011 to 2015 development blueprint will create opportunities for cross-Strait cooperation.
An earthquake measuring 5.0 on the Richter Scale hit the sea off Taiwan's Hualien county at 9:08 pm Beijing Time Friday, according to the China Earthquake Networks Center.
The Chinese mainland police turned over a former Taiwan judge wanted on corruption charges on the island to the island's authorities Friday evening, a statement from the State Council's Taiwan Affairs Office said.
Taiwan's New Party Chairman Yok Mu-ming visited the tomb of Dr Sun Yat-sen at Sun's mausoleum in Nanjing, capital of Jiangsu province on Friday, the 144th anniversary of the revolutionary leader's birth and the first day the tomb has been open to visitors for free.
Taiwan's surpreme court sentenced former leader Chen Shui-bian and his wife to 19 years in prison for bribery, a court official said on Friday.
The mainland will start to approve the priority rights of patent applicants from Taiwan on Nov 22 in an attempt to address intellectual property rights (IPR) disputes unleashed by booming cross-Straits exchange.
The Chinese mainland on Wednesday said it would work with Taiwan to enhance cooperation in disaster response after 20 mainland tourists died in landslides on the island last month.