A fisherman of Taiwan held by Philippine Coast Guard officers called home for rescue on Thursday, saying he was treated cruelly.
Taiwan's leading trade promotion agency has opened its third mainland office in the southern booming city of Guangzhou in a latest bid to promote cross-Straits economic and trade cooperation.
A total of 577 doctors from Taiwan have obtained professional licenses for the Chinese mainland since 2009, according to official statistics revealed at a seminar on cross-Strait medical exchanges on Friday.
Several dozen people on two flights have been injured when their aircraft hit turbulence before landing at Hong Kong's airport.
Hong Kong's Financial Secretary John Tsang will leave for Russia on September 3 to attend the Group of Twenty (G20) Leaders' Summit to be held in St Petersburg as part of the delegation of the People's Republic of China, according to a local government press release on Friday.
The Chinese mainland and Taiwan held discussions in late August on establishing offices on each other's side.
Caught between traditional expectations and career pressures, working women in Taiwan are increasingly opting to freeze their eggs at fertility clinics as they postpone marriage and motherhood.
China's meteorological authorities recently set out to prove whether Taiwanese pop star Jam Hsiao deserves his nickname of "God of Rain".
More than 400 agricultural scientists from the mainland and Taiwan gathered in Beijing on Tuesday to exchange ideas and new technologies to raise crop yields.
The sixth annual Cross-Straits Cultural Industries Fair will take place from Oct 25 to 28 in Xiamen, Fujian province.
A mainland official has called for keeping pace with the times to consolidate, enrich and improve legal and judicial assistance for cross-Straits exchanges.
The Chinese mainland's chief of Taiwan affairs office on Wednesday called on the press from both sides of the Taiwan Strait to increase exchanges and cooperation.