Topic: Taiwan Strait

Taiwan polls best gift to mainland, says Ma

Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou said this month's presidential vote was the island's "best gift" to the mainland, and hailed their potential to...

Geography of Quemoy Island

the largest of the six Quemoy islands, which cover 60 square miles (155 km2) in the Taiwan Strait. It is 5 miles (8 km) east of the Chinese...

Geography of Matsu Island

Matsu Island, the largest of the six Matsu islands, which cover 12 square miles (31 km2) in the Taiwan Strait. Matsu is 10 miles (16 km) east of...

Ningdes Burgeoning Port

Sandu'ao port as a key free-trade harbor approved by the State Council has given a driving force to the development of Ningde. 80 CHINA TODAY AROUND THE COUNTRY N INGDE in Fujian Prov- ince is a burgeoning city lying on China ...

Tao yuan

It is bordered by the hsiens of T'ai-pei (north), I-lan (east), and Hsin-chu (south) and by the Taiwan Strait (west). The T'ai-pei oil and gas fields are in the northeast; coal, iron ore, and nickel are mined. A network of ...

South China Sea

It is bounded on the northeast by the Taiwan Strait (by which it is connected to the East China Sea); on the east by Taiwan and the Philippines; on the southeast and south by Borneo, the southern limit of the Gulf of ...

Taiwan Strait

Taiwan Strait, also called Formosa Strait, Chinese (Wade-Giles romanization) T'ai-wan Hai-hsia or (Pinyin) Taiwan Haixia, arm of the Pacific Ocean, 100 miles (160 km) wide at its narrowest point, lying between the coast of China's Fukien province and the island ...
Taiwan's air force said Wednesday that it had grounded its ageing F-5 fighter jet fleet for urgent safety checks after one plane crashed, killing two pilots. "All the flights of the F-5s have been halted until a thorough safety check is ...

Fighter jet goes missing off Taiwan

Taiwan's air force said Monday one of its fighter jets carrying a pilot and an engineer went missing during routine training off the island's coast.The locally-made twin-seater plane disappeared from radar screens 30 minutes after it took off from ...
Share prices opened open higher, tracking Wall Street's advance Friday with US inflation data and a drop in oil prices easing investor worries. Dealers said sentiment was also bolstered by the agreement reached last week to allow weekend charter flights across ...