The cast of designers competing on the seventh season of Project Runway have been revealed!
The fashion competition, hosted by German catwalk maven Heidi Klum, will see the judges and designers returning to New York City, the home of the show for the first five seasons. Heidi will be joined by judges Nina Garcia and Michael [...]
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“Project Runway†Season 7; “Models Of The Runway†Contestants Revealed
December 17th, 2009 |
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Samta Hotels makes cash offer for all remaining Furama shares for delisting
December 15th, 2009 |
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Samta Hotels, which belongs to the Ng family, the controlling shareholder of Furama, is making a voluntary unconditional cash offer for all the Furama shares it does not own at $2 each. The Ng family holds a total of about 103 million or 66.6% of Furama shares directly or through Samta.
Furama is an investment holding company focusing on the hospitality industry. The group owns the Furama RiverFront Hotel (formerly the Apollo Hotel Singapore) and the Furama City Centre Hotel (formerly the Furama Hotel Singapore). Furama also holds a 13% interest in the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Taipei and the company also entered into joint ventures with various Thai partners and invested in four hotel properties in Bangkok.
Indian girls’ baskbetball team defeats Hong Kong
December 4th, 2009 |
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Hong Kong: At the FIBA Asia U-16 Basketball Championship, the Indian girls’ basketball team had lost to China and Chinese Taipei. The hopes were low but suddenly the team finally bounced back with an emphatic win against Hong Kong.
With a second round playoff a long way off, the team is now playing for the [...]
MedTecs says demand for facemasks has surged more than 20-fold
September 16th, 2009 |
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SGX-listed MedTecs International Corp., a maker of medical facemasks, said demand for the products has increased more than 20-fold, and it’s looking at ways to increase production as the swine flu pandemic spurs orders.
MedTecs, based in Taipei, has orders for both its surgical masks and more sophisticated FFP2 masks until next year, Clement Yang, the company’s chairman, said by telephone today.
Dalai Lama holds Taiwan prayers
September 1st, 2009 |
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The Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, has held a prayer ceremony in southern Taiwan in memory of the victims of last month’s typhoon.
It was the Dalai Lama’s first major public appearance since he arrived on the island on Sunday.
He has described his trip as non-political, but China has condemned it.
It has reportedly postponed several delegations to Taiwan, at a time when relations between Beijing and Taipei have otherwise been improving.
China considers the Dalai Lama a dangerous separatist who is seeking Tibetan independence, and often criticises his official foreign visits.
The trip to Taiwan is especially sensitive given that Beijing considers Taiwan – along with Tibet – as part of Chinese territory.
Remembering the dead
About 20,000 people assembled in the arena in the southern city of Kaohsiung on Tuesday to see the Dalai Lama.
Many of the people there were Tibetan Buddhists from all over Taiwan, but a lot were also typhoon victims, according to the BBC’s correspondent in the country, Cindy Sui.
The 74-year-old monk said he shared the sorrow of those who lost their loved ones during Typhoon Morakot, which hit Taiwan on 7 August and left more than 600 people dead or missing.
The people prayed and chanted with the Dalai Lama in unison. At one point he even cracked a joke, saying: "I’m chanting in Tibetan and you’ll be chanting in Mandarin, but it’s going to sound like chaos."
According to our correspondent, nobody in the Kaohsiung arena was thinking about politics – they were simply very eager to get the spiritual message the Dalai Lama wanted to give them.
But the trip is undoubtedly causing strain on Beijing-Taipei relations.
On Sunday a statement from China’s Taiwan Affairs Office said the Dalai Lama’s visit was "bound to have a negative influence on the relations between the mainland and Taiwan".
Chen Shu-rong, spokeswoman for Taiwan’s ruling Kuomintang (KMT) party, told reporters that a senior Communist Party official had already cancelled a visit to Taipei, and a Chinese delegation would not take part in Saturday’s opening of the Deaf Olympics.
Ms Chen told the Associated Press that while she could not confirm that that these actions were taken directly because of the Dalai Lama’s visit, "we do not exclude the possibility".
Little choice
Apart from the Dalai Lama’s visit, Taiwan’s KMT Party has actually been strengthening its ties with China in recent months.
The Chinese government considers President Ma Ying-jeou’s administration far easier to deal with than the island’s previous pro-independence leadership.
But according to our correspondent, Mr Ma had little choice when the opposition party requested an invitation to the Dalai Lama to pray for typhoon victims.
His government had been accused of offering a slow and inefficient response to the typhoon, and our correspondent says he could not afford to hurt his and his party’s image any further.
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Taiwan braces for Typhoon Morakot
August 7th, 2009 |
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Taiwan has closed schools and offices and cancelled flights as the strongest typhoon of the year nears the island.
Typhoon Morakot is expected to pass directly over the capital, Taipei, with winds of about 145km/h (90mph) and heavy rainfall, meteorologists said.
Landslides and power outages have been reported in the north of the island.
Thousands of people have already been evacuated from their homes in China, where Morakot is expected to make landfall on Saturday.
Text message warning
Millions of people living in the north of Taiwan are sheltering in their homes, awaiting the arrival of Morakot.
All domestic flights and many international flights have been cancelled, service on the island’s high-speed railroad has been suspended and seaports have been closed due to the high winds. Gusts have reached up to 180km/h (112mph).
Nearly 50cm (20 inches) of rain has already fallen in some mountainous areas. Some minor landslides have been reported in the north of the island and power has been cut to about 25,000 households.
Taiwan’s weather bureau has said the impact of the typhoon could be prolonged as it is moving slowly.
On the mainland of China, state media said that more than 20,000 people had been evacuated from their homes in Fujian province.
The provincial government has sent more than 8m mobile phone text messages to residents warning them of the typhoon’s approach, the Chinese state news agency reports.
Fishing vessels and other boats have been ordered to take shelter in ports.
The storm’s impact has been felt far to the north and south of its track.
Japan’s weather bureau reported heavy rain and strong winds on the country’s southern islands, forcing the cancellation of more than 200 flights in Okinawa and Kagoshima prefectures, Kyodo news agency says.
Morakot has also contributed to heavy rains in the Philippines, where at least 10 people were killed in flooding and landslides in the north.
Typhoons are frequent in the region between July and September.
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Taiwan curbs foreign bride firms
August 1st, 2009 |
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A law is coming into effect in Taiwan to ban commercial firms from arranging international marriages.
Only non profit-making organisations are now allowed to do so, according to Taiwan’s government.
Many Taiwanese men travel to China and south-east Asian countries, especially Vietnam and Indonesia, to find brides.
They say they have to do so because Taiwanese women are putting careers ahead of marriage, delaying getting married or not marrying at all.
The BBC’s Cindy Sui, in the Taiwanese capital Taipei, says matchmaking agencies have developed a booming business, charging men as much as $9,000 to help them find a wife.
But Taiwan’s government has decided to put a stop to this.
The national immigration agency says the new law has been brought in because many of the cross-border marriages are based on "weak foundations".
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The men are shown photo albums or videos of the women, they pick the one they want and after only one trip to see the woman, they marry her, sometimes on the spot.
Our correspondent says that many of the women agree because they are motivated by the chance to live and work in Taiwan and send money home.
Women’s groups in Taiwan have complained that this amounts to buying and selling partners.
Some of the "brides" arrive in Taiwan after faking a marriage, and go on to work as prostitutes.
To preserve Taiwan’s image and ensure marriages are treated as a serious matter not as a business, the government says from now on companies can only charge their customers for the air fare, hotel expenses and administrative costs.
Violators will be fined up to $30,000.
The agencies will also be strongly advised to encourage both parties to get to know each other better.
There are more than 400,000 foreign spouses, mostly women, in Taiwan, with about 20,000 new transnational marriages registered each year. </p
This article is from the BBC News website. © British Broadcasting Corporation, The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites.
Flextronics wins Hewlett-Packard notebook order: DigiTimes Link
July 31st, 2009 |
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Singapore-based Flextronics International has landed a 15.6-inch consumer notebook order from Hewlett-Packard (HP) with mass production scheduled at the end of second-quarter 2010, reported DigiTimes, an online IT publication based in Taipei, citing industry sources.
In addition, Flextronics has recently started producing HP’s 12.1-inch AMD-based notebooks, and will also start making 13.3-inch notebooks for the vendor in August.
Flextronics shipped around 70,000-80,000 notebooks to HP in first-quarter 2009, and around 200,000 units in the second.
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DBS Group to open 2 to 3 branches in Taiwan in next 3 years
July 28th, 2009 |
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DBS Group Holdings, Southeast Asia’s largest bank, plans to open two to three branches in Taiwan in the next three years, Jerry Chen, head of DBS Taiwan told a briefing in Taipei today. Chen said he doesn’t rule out mergers and acquisitions if there are opportunities. He declined to name any targets.
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China and Taiwan presidents swap telegrams
July 27th, 2009 |
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Hu Jintao and Ma Ying-jeou talk of peace in a sign of improved relations that could lead to historic summit
First came direct flights, then freight links, and now a single telegram. The presidents of Taiwan and China exchanged direct messages today for the first time in 60 years, in the latest sign of their thawing relations.
Hu Jintao wrote to Taiwan’s Ma Ying-jeou to mark the latter’s election as chairman of the Nationalist party.
Bacuse of the enduring mutual sensitivities, the message was sent simply to Mr Ma, while Ma’s reply was addressed to Hu as general secretary of the Communist party.
Beijing still claims sovereignty over Taiwan, which has been self-ruled since Chiang Kai-shek fled there following his defeat in the civil war in 1949. China has warned it could use force if Taipei pursued formal independence.
“I hope our two parties can continue to promote peaceful cross-strait development, deepen mutual trust, bring good news to compatriots on both sides and create a revival of the great Chinese race,” said Hu in his telegram.
“We should continue efforts to consolidate peace in the Taiwan Strait and rebuild regional stability,” Ma replied, adding that they should “put aside disputes”.
Ma was elected president in spring last year on a platform of improving relations with China and because of widespread dissatisfaction with the ruling Democratic People’s party.
But while he has signed landmark trade deals, he has avoided political issues, due in large part to powerful anti-Beijing sentiment on the island.
Lin Chong-pin, a strategic studies professor at Tamkang University in Taipei, told Reuters that the telegram suggested the Chinese leader wants to meet Ma eventually. “It’s sort of expected … It is in Hu Jintao’s benefit or advantage to meet,” Lin said. “It would be a personal feat.”
But analysts believe both sides may take years to weigh up the risks before proceeding.
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Taiwan returns Chiang to memorial
July 20th, 2009 |
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Taiwan has restored the name of the island’s former ruler, Chiang Kai-shek, to a memorial hall, less than two years after it was removed.
Chiang’s legacy is a contentious issue on the island, which split from mainland China when his Nationalist side (KMT) lost the civil war in 1949.
The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP)took his name off the memorial hall in 2007 when they were in power.
The hall was built as a tribute to Chiang after his death in 1975.
The DPP removed his name from several landmarks and changed the name of the hall to the National Taiwan Democracy Memorial Hall.
The DPP said Chiang was a dictator who was responsible for the deaths of thousands of people in Taiwan.
But others remember him as laying the foundation for Taiwan’s current economic prosperity.
On Monday workers protected by hundreds of police changed the name back to Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall.
The ministry of education, responsible for the monument, said the DPP had changed the name of the hall in 2007 without parliamentary approval.
The memorial has become one of Taipei’s best-known landmarks and a popular tourist attraction.</p
This article is from the BBC News website. © British Broadcasting Corporation, The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites.
World Games In Taiwan: China Boycotts Opening Ceremony
July 16th, 2009 |
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TAIPEI, Taiwan — The 100-strong Chinese delegation boycotted the opening ceremony of the World Games in Taiwan on Thursday, underscoring the limits of the historic breakthrough in relations between Taipei and Beijing.
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PHOTOS: Dog Swimwear Fashion Show In Taiwan
July 15th, 2009 |
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These pups got all dressed to the nines for this doggie fashion show in Taipei, Taiwan. Vote on your favorite pooch and outfit!
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