Wait for President Xi Jinping to pick a path as a reformer or a.
Will President Xi Jinping turn out to be a reformer in the vein of Taiwans Chiang Ching-kuo? Or will he walk a more conservative path, becoming a leader in the mould of Communist Party helmsman Mao Zedong ?
Lee Kuan Yew proved the virtues of a strong government
. other Asian tiger economies, there followed the so-called Washington Consensus about the need for governments to stay out of the economy and let the free market rule. Singapore, and to a greater or lesser extent Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and.
Xi Jinping hosts KMTs Lien Chan over hometown Shaanxi.
Communist Party chief Xi Jinping and honorary Kuomintang chairman Lien Chan cemented their relationship in Beijing on Tuesday over cuisine from their shared home province of Shaanxi... Xi arranged for the special Shaanxi-cuisine banquet after their talk at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse, adding a personal touch to the two leaders meeting, Taiwans United Daily News reported yesterday.. Taiwan says Ma Ying-jeou would like to meet Xi Jinping at Apec.
President Xi Jinpings long-time colleague appointed new.
President Xi Jinpings long-time colleague appointed new Beijing police chief. Wang Xiaohong, former head of Fuzhou and Xiamen city forces in Fujian province, where the president worked for years, succeeds Fu Zhenghua.
Taiwans ruling party chief to meet Chinas Xi
TAIPEI: The head of Taiwans ruling Kuomintang party said on Sunday (Apr 12) he plans to meet Chinas President Xi Jinping next month, in what will be the first visit to the mainland by a KMT chief since 2008. Eric Chu, who succeeded embattled.
President Ma Ying-jeou, protesters agree talks over Taiwan.
News �� Asia �� World.. Photo: AFP. Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou and student leaders occupying parliament have agreed to hold talks to try to end a week-long crisis sparked by growing concern over a trade service pact signed with the mainland.. The students occupied the legislature after the ruling Kuomintang caucus went back on an agreement on March 17 for the trade pact to be reviewed line-by-line in parliament... China �� Hong Kong �� Asia �� World.
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Interview: Chinese News Assistants React to Arrest of Colleague Zhang Miao | Asia Society Jonathan Landreth, managing editor for ChinaFile at Asia Society, worked as an accredited foreign correspondent for The Hollywood Reporter... Xi Jinping congratulates newly-elected KMT chairman ��� Xinhua Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of Chinas (CPC) Central Committee, has congratulated Eric Chu for being elected as chairman of Taiwans ruling��.
Typhoon Maysak set to trigger earliest Hong Kong storm signal since records.
The Observatory is poised to issue the earliest storm warning since records began on Sunday morning, as Typhoon Maysak churns towards the city. The storm, which was on Friday passing across the eastern Philippine Sea, is expected to weaken into a .
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President Xi Jinping visited a drizzly Macau on Friday for the 15th anniversary of the gambling hubs return to Chinese rule, with onlookers barred from using umbrellas ��� the emblem of democracy protests in nearby Hong Kong.. after arrest. Hong Kong publishing tycoon Jimmy Lai, an outspoken critic of Beijing, has stepped down as editor-in-chief of the popular Apple Daily newspaper after being arrested for refusing to leave a key pro-democracy protest site in the centre of the city.
Why a Cantonese keyboard is one of the most popular tools in Apples Hong.
While all modern smartphone operating systems support traditional Chinese characters, the system used in Hong Kong and Taiwan, the most common input method relies on the Mandarin-based pinyin Romanisation system. Though Mandarin and Cantonese .
Google provides online home for King of Kowloons calligraphy
Works by iconic Hong Kong artist King of Kowloon Tsang Tsou-choi are finding a permanent home online, as most of the physical pieces have disappeared from their original spaces on the streets after little was done to preserve them. Around 170 works.
Taiwan ex-VP Lien Chan meets Xi Jinping | South China.
Lien Chan, also an honorary chairman of Taiwans ruling Kuomintang (KMT) party, met President Xi Jinping at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing, the official Xinhua news agency said. It did not immediately provide��.
Is Xi Jinping protecting himself from an internal threat? China president.
President Xi Jinping has reshuffled the Central Security Bureau that is in charge of his personal safety, three separate sources have told the South China Morning Post. Major General Wang Shaojun, the executive deputy commander of the bureau, has been .
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Kuomintang wins 6 chief seats in Taiwan election: For sheer surrealism, this is a winner: Shanghai Dailys headline and lead paragraph reporting on Taiwans elections, in which the Kuomintang suffered grievous and glaring defeats. Shanghai Daily. Pipe Dreams: How A.. Timess take on the US election results. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-29788802 A very fine BBC piece on Xi Jinping, his goals, his methods, and implications for Chinas future.
Asias most expensive apartment sells in Hong Kong for record HK$434 million
Its the lowest in 11 years, said Buggle Lau Ka-fai, chief analyst at Midland Realty. The poor showing in March reflects a slowing market in February as there is usually a four-week lag between closing a transaction and its registration. Lau said he.
Second world war shell found in Victoria Park destroyed at the fourth attempt
Traffic ground to a standstill on roads around Hong Kongs Victoria Park this afternoon as police bomb disposal officers detonated a second world war artillery shell. A controlled explosion was successfully carried out at 4.20pm, a police spokesman.
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Eric Chu (C), vice chairman of the ruling Kuomintang (KMT), receives his ballot as he takes part in the partys election at a polling station in New Taipei City on Jan 17, 2015.. Seen as clean and prudent, Chu has said the KMTs exchanges with China would not be suspended, though he was tight-lipped when asked if he would like to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping.. http://www.channelnewsasia.com/mobile/asiapacific/taiwan-s-embattled-ruling/1596204.html.
Oracle to hire 1000 sales staff in Asia-Pacific, including mainland China and.
Of that total, Oracle had made it a priority to hire 260 cloud sales professionals in mainland China and 50 in Hong Kong within six months, Sujith Abraham, Oracles group vice-president for strategy and sales development in Asia-Pacific, said yesterday.
Situation Report: Hillarys in, Ash touts his big bombs.
Situation Report: Hillarys in, Ash touts his big bombs, Nigerian artillery gets loose; Ukrainian cop fashion; lots more �� | Foreign Policy | the Global Magazine of News and Ideas.. News and Ideas; Regions; Channels; Galleries; Voices.. AFP: ���The head of Taiwans ruling Kuomintang party said on Sunday he planned to meet President Xi Jinping next month, in what will be the first visit to the mainland by a KMT chief since 2008.��� Japan.. The Middle Easts Pivot to Asia.
Chinese leader Xi Jinping spells out ambitious Asia vision at Boao Forum
President Xi Jinping yesterday reassured the world that Chinas economy remained strong, as he vowed his initiative to boost links with Asian and European countries would provide trade and investment opportunities to all nations. Addressing. Chief.
Xi Jinping sounds alert on Taiwan independence
Speaking to political advisers from the Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang, the Taiwan Democratic Self-Government League and the All-China Confederation of Taiwan Compatriots, Xi said the 1992 consensus was the political foundation .
Taiwans ruling party chief to meet Chinas Xi on Monday
TAIPEI: Kuomintang (KMT) Chairman Eric Chu will meet his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in Beijing on Monday (May 4). The meeting will come after a KMT and Communist Party forum in Shanghai a day earlier. This will be the first meeting of the.
Will Chinas president attend Lee Kuan Yews funeral?
Diplomat experts said that according to Chinas diplomatic protocol, it normally sends a deputy premier or a presidents special envoy to the funeral of a foreign leader who is identified as ���an old friend of the Chinese people���. President Xi Jinping.
Hong Kong Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying set to meet.
Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying is expected to hold an unprecedented meeting with Kuomintang chairman Eric Chu Li-luan when he visits Hong Kong next week..
Strait talking ��� Chinas military power grows in the Taiwan.
A poll by Taiwanese cable news channel TVBS released on 30 October indicates that, given only two choices (unification or independence), 71% of Taiwanese would choose independence, against 18% who favoured unification.. Chinese president and CCP secretary-general Xi Jinping now appears to be losing patience with the KMT and fears a return to office in 2016 of the pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), which ruled Taiwan during��.
Mystery surrounds new Hong Kong army cadet force - South.
News �� Asia �� World.. Former chief executive Tung Chee-hwa is said to be the groups honorary president while his wife, Betty Tung Chiu Hung-ping, is said to be an honorary adviser.. Taiwan national service has been doing it all the while... The Communist Party of China did replace the KMT 60-something years ago, but considering the following mass destruction of Chinese culture and the countless deaths caused from famine and persecution, I cant really��.
Taiwan ruling party says chief to meet Chinas Xi Jinping
TAIPEI: Chinese President and Communist Party chief Xi Jinping will hold talks with the chairman of Taiwans ruling Kuomintang (KMT) in Beijing next month, the KMT said on Friday, in what would be the first meeting between the heads of the two parties.
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. visit to China. The chairman of Taiwans ruling party Kuomintang (KMT), Eric Chu, on Saturday began his first visit to China since taking up his post early this year, and is scheduled to hold talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping for the first time... APEC is the ideal international forum, where officials from both the mainland and Taiwan have been able to meet and converse, and the APEC summit in Beijing this November will be the best venue for a Ma-Xi meeting. There are many��.
Russia to join China-led Asian bank; Beijing opens door to Taiwan membership
In a meeting with mainland President Xi Jinping before the opening of the Boao conference, Taiwans former vice president Vincent Siew told Xi the island hoped to join the bank. A press release by the Taipei-based Cross-Strait Common Market Foundation, .
Siew meets Xi for five minutes, hopes Taiwan can join AIIB.
Vincent Siew, left, and Xi Jinping shake hands at the Boao Forum in Hainan, March 28.. Zhang Zhijun, head of the Taiwan Affairs Office under Chinas State Council who was present when Siew met Xi, said that Taiwan certainly has the chance to join the AIIB but added that China had yet to receive a formal request. As to what name Taiwan might use to join the AIIB, Zhang said, we are willing to listen to Taiwans views in an appropriate way and channel..
TransAsia plane lifted from river; 31 confirmed dead
He did the best he could, Liao said. President Xi Jinping called for measures to take care of the affected families, while Premier Li Keqiang urged stepped-up communication between mainland and Taiwan authorities. The State Councils Taiwan Affairs.
One China principle is key to further talks with Taipei, Xi.
Communist Party chief Xi Jinping yesterday told honorary Kuomintang chairman Lien Chan that the mainland would respect Taiwans choices so long as both sides negotiate under the one China principle. We respect Taiwan. Lien told Xi that Taiwan would adhere to the 1992 consensus and that it understood cross-strait relations were not an international issue, Taiwans Central News Agency reported. Yesterdays. Taiwan ex-VP Lien Chan meets Xi Jinping.