Taipei, April 28 (CNA) Eight hotels and two spas in Taiwan were among this year's Forbes Travel Guide Star Award winners, including the Mandarin Oriental in Taipei, the only resort in the country to receive a five-star rating for the sixth consecutive year.
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Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je (柯文哲) held a banquet to entertain senior executives from several Chinese-funded enterprises on behalf of the Taipei City Government, allegedly spending NT$47,590 of public funds, Taipei City Councilor Lin Ying-meng (林穎孟) said.
Ko was seen meeting with the executives on the third floor of the Grand Hyatt Taipei on Feb. 24, the Liberty Times (sister newspaper of the Taipei Times) reported, citing a person familiar with the matter.
Ko refused to provide the guest list of the banquet to avoid outside supervision, Lin said.
According to the exclusive report by the Liberty Times, Chinese National Federation of Industries (全國工業總會)
The US should officially recognize Taiwan as a free and sovereign nation with a democratically elected government, former US secretary of state Mike Pompeo said on Friday in a speech in Taipei.
“Today I come here as a private citizen, but it is an imperative to change 50 years of ambiguity. It is about America’s diplomatic recognition of the Republic of China, while the US should continue to engage the People’s Republic of China as a sovereign government,” Pompeo said. “America’s diplomatic recognition of 23 million freedom-loving Taiwanese people, its legal, democratically elected government can no longer be ignored, avoided or
‘UNMISTAKABLE’ REALITY: The US government should immediately ‘do the right and obvious thing’ by offering the ROC ‘diplomatic recognition as a free and sovereign country’By Shelley Shan / Staff reporter