The Olympic torch will not stop in Taiwan en route to the Beijing Games in 2008, Taiwanese officials said on Friday after talks broke down with China which considers the self-ruled island its sovereign territory.
'The two sides agree to continue firmly supporting each other in safeguarding their respective core interests,' a joint statement issued at the end of Muizzu's talks with Chinese leaders said.
Despite the robust growth in this country, Apple's India share in its overall global sales remained modest -- constituting 1.5 per cent of its overall turnover of $389 billion in FY23.
Sindhu sweats past Nguyen to enter Arctic Open semis
The trigger that led Japan and the Philippines to ink the deal was because of the deteriorating security situation in the South China Sea. China's coast guard increased the frequency and intensity of incursions into Philippine waters, provoking the Philippines to take countermeasures to deter China, explains Dr Rajaram Panda.
The Indian golfing ace catapulted from overnight tied-seventh position to a sole second place finish at the US$300,000 Acer Taiwan Open.
A man and a woman were rescued from the Wei-guan Golden Dragon Tower, a 17-story building in the city that tipped over from the 6.4-magnitude quake early Saturday.
The 2024 general elections are due in April-May and Fitch expects the Modi government to come back to power for the third time.
Clearly, Foxconn Chairman Young Liu and his team are looking to raise their game in India.
The victory earned Hsieh her first mixed doubles Grand Slam title, and the 38-year-old is also in the running to win her seventh major women's doubles trophy, having reached the final Down Under with partner Elise Mertens.
Japan's Met Agency said an earthquake struck off Taiwan measuring preliminary magnitude 7.2.
The exclusive club that dominates the global semiconductor fab scenario is about to get a new member. Taiwan, South Korea, and China control nearly 70 per cent of the global capacity. SEMI, the global industry body for semiconductor and electronics design and manufacturing, projects all fabs collectively will churn out 30 million wafers a month this year.
A TransAsia Airways plane crashed into a river
The company entered into a strategic tie-up with Jaina Marketing and Associates for distribution of its mobile handsets across the country. Three mobile phones in the price range of Rs 25,000 to Rs 36,000 were unveiled on Tuesday.
Six Taiwan prison inmates commit suicide, ending 14-hour long hostage standoff.
Citing the "very complex and sensitive" situation in cross Straits relations, China has asked the US to cancel its plans to sell sophisticated weapons to Taiwan, further emboldening the pro-independence forces on the self-ruled island.
The United States, he said, will continue to take calm and resolute steps to uphold peace and stability in the face of Beijing's ongoing efforts to undermine it, and to support Taiwan, in line with its longstanding policy.
China has hit back at the US over weapons sales to Taiwan as it announced a series of moves against Washington, including suspension of military exchanges between the two countries.
A phenomenon that changes the moon's appearance from annular (the moon appears visually smaller and is not able to fully cover the sun) to total (when the moon completely covers the sun) and back as the moon's shadow moves across the earth's surface.
Lydia Ko cantered to a nine-stroke victory at the LPGA Taiwan Championship on Sunday to take back the women's world number one spot from South Korean Park In-bee.
This is the case even though the benchmark index is only 5 per cent below its all-time high. The list of stocks trading at a discount primarily consists companies in the automotive, banking, oil and gas, insurance, healthcare, and metal sectors.
Nineteen per cent of global fund managers remain bullish on India, suggests the latest BofA Asia Fund Manager Survey (FMS). A total of 249 panelists with $656 billion worth of assets under management (AUM) participated in the survey between February 2 and 8, BofA said. Two hundred and nine participants with $568 billion AUM responded to the global FMS questions, while 145 participants with $331 billion in AUM responded to the regional fund manager survey (FMS) questions, BofA said.
India and Vietnam are vying with each other to woo semiconductor companies to their country. With the tension between the US and China escalating, and Taiwan getting vulnerable both countries are trying to present themselves as alternative destinations for global players. Vietnam, which started the effort as early as 2010, has got a leg-up after US President Joe Biden's visit last month.
Among the Sensex firms, NTPC climbed over 3 per cent emerging as the biggest gainer. Tata Motors, Sun Pharma, Tata Steel, State Bank of India, UltraTech Cement, JSW Steel, Bajaj Finance, Reliance, ICICI Bank and IndusInd Bank were the other major gainers. Power Grid, HCL Technologies, Tech Mahindra, Tata Consultancy Services, Infosys and Titan were among the laggards.
Kazakh weightlifter Zulfiya Chinshanlo broke her own clean and jerk world record in the 53kg category at the Asian Games on Sunday, but it was not enough to snatch gold from Taiwan's Hsu Shu Ching, who also set a new combined world mark of 233kg.
Taiwan-based telecom company DBTel on Thursday unveiled mobile phones and said it will invest upto $50 million for setting up marketing and customer care network.
India topped the global chart for total amount raised through American depository receipts (ADRs) this year (January-July), beating China and Taiwan.
In a surprise development, a top Chinese military general has cast aspersions on the People's Liberation Army (PLA)'s much-publicised 'real combat-oriented exercises' as 'fake combat capabilities' at a time when Chinese President Xi Jinping has ordered it to prepare for 'maritime military struggles' to win wars.
There is growing consensus in the political landscapes of New Delhi and Taipei that such cooperation is in their mutual interests in the age of globalisation.
BPO and IT services across India remained largely unaffected.
On a mission to cool soaring bilateral tensions, United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Sunday held extensive talks with his Chinese counterpart Qin Gang on a range of issues, including the Taiwan issue and the Ukraine war.
India is increasingly a willing participant in the evolving US' Indo-Pacific strategy. While these developments are related to the perception of a growing Chinese security challenge, their implications for India's much-vaunted strategic autonomy should be a matter of deeper and closer reflection, asserts former foreign secretary Shyam Saran.
Japan also reported that five of those missiles landed in its exclusive economic zone, understandably causing grave concern.
Verma beat his Taiwanese opponent 21-18, 21-14.
Had it not been for the slow but sure emergence of China as a threat to the western order, would India have been accepted as a near-equal partner by individual western nations, jointly and severally, questions N Sathiya Moorthy.
The new strain of bird flu which hit several parts of China has spread to Taiwan as it reported the first case while the World Health Organisation on Wednesday said the deadly H7N9 virus is far "more lethal" because of its ability to spread easily from birds to humans.
The Philippines Navy this month alleged that the Chinese ships used water cannons to attack its ships.
'On the LAC, China can undertake military action at any place with much fewer resources. It can do 'salami slicing'.'
Battered by the financial meltdown, AIG had received billions of dollars from the US government last year to tide over the turmoil. The leading insurer has also shed assets worldwide to streamline its operations.
Ahead of the upcoming elections, political parties have started announcing incentives to benefit women, but what do women truly seek for genuine gender parity, asks Nivedita Mookerji.
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