The Wang-Koo meeting refers to a meeting held in Singapore in April 1993 between Wang Daohan, head of the mainland's Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits, and Koo Chen-fu, chairman of the Taiwan-based Straits Exchange Foundation. The m...
Fang Nien-hua, a news anchor for TVBS Taiwan, says the meeting has delivered an important message to the people across the Taiwan Straits. Both President Xi and Mr. Ma Ying-jeou delivered a message at the beginning of their statement that people acro...
Addressing each other as Mr, Xi Jinping and Ma Ying-jeou agreed that the cross-straits ties had reached its best period since 1949. After a historic handshake lasting for some 70 seconds, Xi Jinping told Ma that history has proved that no force could...
In his speech at the National University of Singapore, Chinese President Xi Jinping noted that by the end of this December the ASEAN Economic Community will be in place. And this would mark the first ever sub-regional economic community in Asia. Chin...
Among the accords is a long-anticipated deal over negotiations to upgrade the seven-year-old China-Singapore free trade agreement. Zhang Jianping, a foreign trade expert with China's top economy planner, NDRC, says it's expected to meet the increasin...
Xi Jinping, who is also General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, urges the two sides to inherit and maintain the comradely and brotherly traditional friendship. General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong and I agreed that w...
It has been almost forty years since Chinese and Singaporean leaders last met each other - in 1978. At that time, Han Tan Juan was a chief editor for former Singaporean leader Lee Kuan Yew's memoirs. He recalls Lee's meeting with the then Chinese lea...
Dr. Jonathan Koon-shum Choi is the chairman of the Hong Kong-based Sunwah Group which was established in 1957. Every year, the group invests one million U.S. dollars in a number of public welfare programs in Vietnam. This includes Chinese language te...
As part of the new 5-year plan, the mainland leadership is promising more is going to be done to allow average people from Taiwan benefit from more cross-straits cooperation. Zhong Shuling with the Association of Small and Medium Enterprises in Taipe...
According to the guideline, in a break from the current supervision body that manages the capital as well as state-owned enterprises (SOEs), the new organ will only supervise the use of capital and return other administrative tasks to relevant govern...
The meeting is scheduled to take place in Singapore on Saturday. Zhang Zhijun, head of the Taiwan Work Office of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, says the event will be the first of its kind in 66 years. This is the first meeting of le...
China has been Vietnam's largest trading partner of Vietnam for the past 11 years. Last year, Vietnam became China's second largest trading partner inside ASEAN. A lot of the trade between the two sides is border-trade. Nguyen Van Binh is the vice ch...
Xi Jinping's time in Singapore, aside from his historic meeting with Taiwan's leader, is also expected to focus on the promotion of economic ties between China and Singapore. China is already Singapore's largest trading partner. However, many on the...
China has been Vietnam's largest trading partner of Vietnam for the past 11 years. Last year, Vietnam became China's second largest trading partner inside ASEAN. A lot of the trade between the two sides is border-trade. Nguyen Van Binh is the vice ch...
China Urges Restraint from the US on the South China Sea Issue...
