Taipei - China and Taiwan will hold talks in autumn to discuss opening sea links across the Taiwan Strait, a newspaper reported Friday.

The statement was made by Chen Yunlin, China's top negotiator with Taiwan, at a maritime seminar Thursday in Taicang, in China's Jiangsu Province, the China Times said.

The seminar was attended by Chinese and Taiwanese shipping industry executives and port officials.

At the seminar, Chen, chairman of the Association for Relations across the Taiwan Strait (ARATS), said he expects to visit Taiwan in autumn, and the first issue to be discussed will be sea links across the Taiwan Strait.

Taipei - Taiwan Thursday rejected what it saw as "unacceptable" China's use of a controversial Olympic title for Taipei that suggests the island is a Chinese territory.

Taipei - Taiwan police are searching for three Chinese tourists who disappeared while visiting the island, the third such incidence in a month, a newspaper said Thursday. 

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Taipei - Taiwan's top negotiator with China has decided to drop his plan to attend the opening ceremony of Beijing Olympics in China next month, his deputy said on Wednesday.

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