Taipei - Taiwanese glass manufacturers are teaming up to bid for the contract to supply glass to the world's tallest building, Burj Dubai, it was reported Sunday.

An estimated 110 Taiwan glass manufacturers plan to form a consortium to bid for the contract for the Dubai Tower, which will stand at more than 800 metres when it is unveiled in 2009, and replace the 508-metre Taipei 101 as the world's tallest building.

Taipei - Tens of thousands of Taiwan separatists gathered in Taipei Saturday to protest President Ma Ying-jeou's pro-China policy and the island's economic woes.

The demonstrators will march through the main streets in Taipei and hold a rally in front of the Presidential Office Building to marks 100 days since Ma took office.

The protest is organized by a dozen pro-independence groups, led by the Taiwan Society and the opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). The organizers expect 100,000 people to join in the march.

Taipei - Shipments

Taipei - The United States will approve the sale of 12 P-3C Orion anti-submarine aircraft before the year-end, a newspaper reported Friday, quoting a military official.

The Apple Daily quoted Navy Admiral Wang Li-shen as saying that the US will approve the sale of 12 P-3Cs before the year-end, and the P-3Cs will join the Taiwan Navy in 2012.

US naval personnel recently inspected facilities at an airbase in Taoyuan, near Taipei, to see if it was capable of receiving the P-3Cs, the daily quoted Wang as saying.

Taipei- The majority of the people of Taiwan favor maintaining Taiwan's status quo with China and are satisfied with Taipei's policy seeking peace with Beijing, an opinion poll showed Thursday.

According to the poll of 1,094 people conducted by the government's Mainland Affairs Council, more than 80 per cent want to keep the status quo with China, the same percentage as in previous polls.

Taipei - Taiwanese authorities Thursday charged a former top security chief with concealing documents that hampered investigations into alleged money laundering implicating former president Chen Shui-bian.

"We have sought a jail sentence of two and a half years against Yeh Sheng-mao for hiding important documents that resulted in prosecutors losing their optimal time in their probes into the alleged money laundering case," said chief prosecutor Lin Chin-chun in a news conference.