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Half a million Vibo customers lose telecom service following power outage (2014/03/26)

Customers of Vibo Telecom are upset following the company’s largest service interruption in five years. For about four hours on Wednesday, more than half a million of the telecom’s customers in northern Taiwan and Yilan were left without service. 

Attempt to Broker Deal Fails (2014/03/25)

In attempt to solve the dispute over the cross-strait trade-in-services pact, Legislative Speaker Wang Jin-pyng held negotiations again today with ruling and opposition lawmakers. They failed to comprise on how to review the pact. 

Industry leader says trade-in-services pact needed to open Taiwan’s economy (2014/03/25)

Drowned out in the protests over the cross-strait trade-in-services pact are the voices of industry representatives, many of whom support the more open trade that the pact would bring. Among them is an industrial representative who said the benefits of an open economy outweigh the damage the pact would cause to its losers. 

Court rules not enough evidence to detain alleged student ringleader (2014/03/25)

The student protester named by police as the ringleader of Sunday evening’s storming of the Executive Yuan was released early this morning. The Taipei District Court ruled there was not sufficient evidence to detain Dennis Wei for allegedly inciting the occupation of the government’s chief decision-making body. 

Over NT$6 million raised to take out ads opposed to cross-strait trade-in-services pact (2014/03/25)

Front-page advertisements explaining students’ reasons for opposing the cross-strait trade-in-services pact were seen in the Apple Daily and Liberty Times today. Funding for the ads and a future one to appear in the New York Times international edition was crowdsourced a day earlier within a period of just three hours. 

Families devastated after Malaysian Airlines announces everyone aboard missing aircraft is dead (2014/03/25)

Malaysian Airline officials held a press conference this afternoon announcing there were “no survivors” aboard Flight MH370. A day earlier the Malaysian prime minister said analysis of satellite data showed that the missing airliner had gone down into the Indian Ocean. 

National Palace Museum to display ‘Jadeite Cabbage with Insects’ in Tokyo (2014/03/25)

The National Palace Museum will lend two of its most popular items, a piece of jadeite resembling white cabbage and a piece of banded jasper resembling pork for exhibitions in Japan. 

Council of Agriculture restricts pork sales, purchases to stabilize rising prices (2014/03/25)

The Council of Agriculture is taking several steps to cool rising pork prices. After forcing local supermarkets operated by regional farmers’ association to offer discounts on two types of pork, it is now limiting purchases by major frozen meat sellers to prevent hoarding and speculation. 

Students deliver petition demanding impeachment of premier, police chief (2014/04/01)

Students are urging the government watchdog to impeach officials who ordered and led last week’s bloody crackdown on demonstrators who stormed the Executive Yuan. Chief among the officials who the students want the Control Yuan to investigate is Premier Jiang Yi-huah. 

President Ma and student leaders agree in principle to talks (2014/03/25)

President Ma Ying-jeou and the students occupying the Legislature both say they are willing to meet each other without any preconditions. Such a meeting could prove to be a significant step toward ending what is already an eight-day standoff over a trade-in-services pact that Taiwan signed with China.