About 290 people from the mainland left for Taiwan on Tuesday as the first batch of mainland individual tourists.
When Shanghai Airlines flight FM 801 lands on Tuesday morning at Taipei Songshan Airport, some of its passengers will be the first mainland tourists to fly directly, on individual travel arrangements, to Taiwan.
China UnionPay (CUP), a bank card services provider, said Monday it has reached an agreement with Taiwan-based Financial Information Service (FISC) to further expand the acceptance of CUP bank cards in Taiwan.
Parts of Taiwan are bracing for heavy downpours as tropical storm Meari moves northward toward the island from the Philippines.
Authorized organizations from the Chinese mainland and Taiwan exchanged written documents Tuesday to confirm the schedule of a pilot travel program that will allow mainlanders to visit Taiwan as individual tourists.
Taiwan leader Ma Ying-jeou announced on Sunday that his current "premier" will be his running mate when he seeks re-election as "president" next year.
China's Supreme People's Court on Thursday promulgated a judicial interpretation which authorizes the mainland's provincial-level high courts to handle legal cases with parties in Taiwan.
Officials and experts with the quality supervision authorities and institutions from the Chinese mainland and Taiwan have called for concerted efforts to ensure food safety on both sides of the Strait.
Prosecutors in Taiwan Wednesday indicted the owner of Pin Han Perfumery Co, one of the two companies found mixing toxic plasticizers into clouding agents and tainting a large number of beverage and food.
Chinese mainland TV manufacturers are expected to purchase 30 million flat screens worth $5.5 billion from Taiwan this year, a mainland industrial heavyweight said in Taipei Wednesday.
The Chinese mainland and Taiwan have enjoyed effective cooperation in jointly combating crimes in recent years, a mainland official said on Wednesday.
The election of Taiwan's leader will not change the schedule of the seventh round of cross-Straits talks, the date of which is yet to be announced, a mainland spokesman said Wednesday.