A group of opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) legislators proposed Thursday that a debate be held within the party as part of its efforts to formulate a policy toward China.

Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Chairman Su Tseng-chang (蘇貞昌) yesterday called on all sectors of Taiwanese society to improve their knowledge and understanding of China.

Mainland China has taken further steps to revive Confucian classics in its education system to enhance senior high school students' knowledge about traditional Chinese culture and literature.

Opposition legislators have vowed to continue boycotting a plan by the ruling party to pass new rules enabling the opening of offices by the two representative organizations on each side of the Taiwan Strait.

The Criminal Investigation Bureau (CIB) and law enforcement officers in China have arrested more than 300 people in their latest cross-strait collaboration in cracking down on telephone fraud, the CIB said yesterday.

The current Taiwan-Philippines row over the shooting death of a Taiwanese fisherman by a Philippine government vessel has nothing to do with the so-called “one China” policy, the head of the Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) said yesterday.

Over 42 incidences of cross-strait trade related disputes have been logged, with six cases resolved, according to a recent announcement by organizations tasked with handling technical or business matters between Taiwan and China.

Taiwan and China's two new top cross-strait negotiators are likely to hold their first formal meeting in Taipei this month.

A delegation of retired military officers left yesterday for China on a week-long visit that they described as an effort to push for cross-Taiwan Strait military confidence-building, although the Ministry of National Defense (MND) was quick to distance itself from any aspect of the trip.

The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) assembled yesterday for its first meeting of the long-waited China Affairs Committee (中國事務委員會), headed by Chairman Su Tseng-chang (蘇貞昌)