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- Hawaii Lt. Gov. Schatz to discuss tourism, energy with Taiwan
Lt. Gov. Brian Schatz will be pitching Hawaii a tourist destination this week in Taiwan in and South Korea.
Schatz is scheduled to attend Taiwan President Ma Ying-Jeou’s inauguration and meet with him to discuss economic cooperation in tourism, higher education and energy, Schatz’s office said Friday.
Following the inauguration, Schatz is scheduled to travel to Taichung City and sign a collaboration agreement on clean energy and tourism.
President Barack Obama has placed Taiwan on a list for...
- News Summary: Taiwan's Ma set for 2nd term
 TENSIONS EASED: Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou has leveraged growing economic ties with China to reduce tensions to their lowest level since the two sides split in 1949.
- Thai police arrest man with babies' bodies for black magic
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai police arrested a British citizen on Friday after the bodies of six babies thought to have been used in a black magic ritual were found stuffed into travel bags in a Bangkok hotel room. Chow Hok Kuen, 28, a British citizen born in Hong Kong of Taiwanese parents, was arrested in Bangkok's Chinatown and was being held for possession of human remains, police said. Authorities believe he was trying to smuggle the corpses to Taiwan. "The bodies are of children between the ages of two and seven months. ...
- China shadow looming, Taiwan's Ma set for 2nd term
Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou has leveraged growing economic ties with China to reduce tensions to their lowest level since the two sides split in 1949. China's incessant effort to draw the democratic island closer politically has been on the back burner, and as Ma's second term begins Sunday the question is whether he can keep it there.
- Taiwan president fined for Facebook post
Ma, who won re-election to a second term earlier this year, was on Wednesday ordered to pay T$500,000 (US$16,666) by the island's Central Election Commission for posting a message to his Facebook campaign page on the day of the election.
- Hawaii will have two acting governors this week
Hawaii Lt. Gov. Brian Schatz became acting governor Tuesday when Gov. Neil Abercrombie left the state on personal leave to visit family in New York.
Schatz will be acting governor until Friday morning, when he leaves on a trip to Taiwan and South Korea to promote tourism and sign a memorandum on energy cooperation.
Abercrombie is scheduled to return to Hawaii at 5:30 p.m. Friday, so Attorney General David Louie will serve as acting governor between the time Schatz departs on his trip in the morning...
- China criticizes Philippines on South China Sea protest
MANILA (Reuters) - China on Friday accused the Philippines of escalating an already tense territorial dispute over the South China Sea following a noisy but peaceful anti-Beijing protest in Manila. About 200 protesters, well below initial estimates, rallied in front of the Chinese consular office in Manila. Both Beijing and Taiwan had warned their nationals to stay indoors. The demonstrators, carrying placards and banners and waving Philippine flags, protested against what they called Chinese intrusions into Philippine territory. ...
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