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Fan Liqing, spokeswoman for the State Council's Taiwan Affairs Office, used the well-known catchphrase on Wednesday to describe how cross-Straits cooperation can fare in aerospace.

The mainland is eager to cooperate with Taipei on space research and development, she said at a news conference.

Her remarks came as Kuomintang Honorary Chairman Lien Chan led a delegation visiting the Beijing Aerospace Control Center on Wednesday.

The top securities regulator is ready to open the A-share market for Taiwan institutional investors holding offshore renminbi deposits, a senior official of the China Securities Regulatory Commission said on Tuesday.

The investment quota for renminbi qualified institutional investors, or RQFIIs, is likely to be 100 billion yuan ($16 billion), according to the commission.

This October, the Taipei Palace Museum will hold a large-scale exhibition themed Emperor Qianlong's Artistic Taste, which will focus on the emperor's life and how he nurtured his superb aesthetic values.

That's just one of the projects recently discussed by the Beijing Palace Museum director, Shan Jixiang, and his counterpart at the Taipei Palace Museum, Fung Ming-chu. The two met in Beijing this week to discuss extended cooperation over the next three years.

Standing in an office corridor, Ouyang Yingjie, an associate at a B2C company in Shanghai, leans against a wall and talks on her cell phone. But instead of holding the phone to her ear, she holds it in front of her and speaks directly at it. She's using WeChat, a voice messaging app.

This is becoming a more usual sight in China as instant messaging and other communications have shifted into the mobile universe.

People like Ouyang are part of the growing number of messenger users that have moved on from the tether of desktop-based chat to new, mobile systems.

The second Hong Kong Inter-City Bridge Championships were held in 1981. Shortly before the championships began, the organizing committee received an informal message expressing the hope that a team representing Taiwan would be invited to take part.

Former Taiwan "premier" Frank Hsieh arrived in Xiamen, Fujian province, on Thursday for a five-day trip which makes him the most senior politician ever from the island's pro-independence opposition party to visit the mainland.

The visit, described by Taiwan media as "ice-breaking", came amid debate in the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) about whether to change its mainland policy.

The drill, the largest of its kind since it was first held two years ago, took place in the waters between Fujian's Xiamen and Taiwan's Kinmen. 

Two helicopters, 14 rescue vessels and more than 300 professional rescue workers participated in the drill, and the mainland and Taiwan were equally represented. 

The mainland and Taiwan signed two agreements on Thursday — on investment protection and promotion, and customs cooperation — that will further boost two-way capital and trade flows across the Straits, experts said.

The two agreements were inked in Taipei by Chen Yunlin, president of the Beijing-based Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits, and Chiang Pin-kung, chairman of the Taipei-based Straits Exchange Foundation, during the eighth round of talks held since 2008.

Table tennis "young guns" are getting a helping hand from more experienced "shooters" who know what its like to face an Olympic showdown. 

If you want to be the best, you have to play with the best and table tennis, with its rapid-fire action, proves the point more than most, according to elite practice partners who have been putting the Olympic players through their paces. 

Hon Hai Group Chairman Terry Gou blasted the Taipei city government yesterday for its slow review of his company's application to build an information technology (IT) park.

At the official groundbreaking of the park, Gou said the city government spent 14 months assessing the world's largest contract electronics maker's application to set up the Taipei IT Park.

Taipei Mayor Hau Lung-bin announced yesterday that participants of a joint high school entrance examination by three northern cities can apply for admission reassignment, reversing his earlier position that the results of the controversial program cannot be changed.
 

Hau apologized twice to the examinees and their families for the technical problems in the inaugural Taipei, New Taipei City and Keelung joint examination.
 

Taiwan will step up research of long-term evolution (LTE) mobile technology, which has become more influential among operators around the world, said Chen Yi-ping, chief technology officer of Inventec.

She made the remarks while attending a 4G forum held in Taipei yesterday. The event was held from July 11 to 12. LTE is a 4G technology, a step up from the currently adopted 3G.

During the forum, participants discussed various overarching issues facing operators.