Taipei - Taiwan's state oil company CPC plans to submit tender to explore for oil in North Peru, the Central News Agency (CNA) said on Saturday.

Taipei - Thousands of Taiwanese streamed to the mausoleum of late Nationalist Party or Kuomintang (KMT) leader Chiang Kai-shek, reopened Saturday after being shut down by the former government.

A long line of visitors, young and old, were shown by Taiwanese television queuing in front of the shrine to pay respects to the late leader, who ruled Taiwan from 1949 to
1975.

"The DPP is dreadful, it is dreadful," a sobbing elderly visitor was quoted as saying by cable news network TVBS condemning the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) government for shutting down the mausoleum in Taoyuan outside Taipei in late December.

He was among a number of emotional elderly visitors who had followed the Chiang Kai-shek troops to Taiwan in 1949.

Taipei - Taiwan authorities Thursday deported a US doctor to face trial in California for allegedly drugging at least 19 male patients and taking nude photos of them.

Taipei - Taiwan and its longtime rival China are to resume official talks that have been suspended for a decade early next month in Beijing, the island's top negotiator said Thursday.