Ma Ying-jeou

...poll showed Friday. The telephone survey of 1,004 adults by the Global View monthly magazine found that only 38.6 percent trust President Ma Ying-jeou, who lags well behind Obama's 46.1 percent trust rate. While 35.4 percent trust...

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...F-16s. Taiwan's President Ma Ying-jeou, despite a conciliatory stance toward Beijing, has appealed to the United States for weapons, saying the island must stay on guard in light of the mainland's sharp rise in military spending. Copyright...

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...by President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) as his proxy for the APEC summit. Taiwan has been unable to send the president to the APEC summit since 1993 because of Beijing's opposition. Taiwanese government officials have said they hope the agreement...

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...sides of the Taiwan Strait. Lien, a former vice-president, was named by President Ma Ying-jeou as his proxy for the informal summit of the 21 APEC leaders in Singapore which kicked off with a lunch Saturday. Taiwan has been unable to send...

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The film has had considerable pre-release publicity, with a screening last week in Tainan attended by President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) and another earlier this week in Taipei for former president Lee Teng-hui (李登輝) and other political figures.

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...with politics. But it is also a historical biography, and the significance has not been lost on President Ma Ying-jeou, who attended a special showing Nov. 4 in southern Taiwan before the general release. With bodyguards and...

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...imports of certain U.S. beef cuts. Ma Ying-jeou's statement Wednesday comes amid intense local opposition to his recent decision to end the six-year-old ban on bone-in beef, minced beef and offal. Some Taiwanese speculated that in...

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"It's all linked, improving relations with China, and then China helps Taiwan improve its economy, which will help Ma Ying-jeou get re-elected," said Lin Chong-pin, strategic studies professor at Tamkang University in Taipei. Earlier...

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..."I do hope so. " Chu Yun-han (朱雲漢), president of the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange, said the term "Chinese culture with Taiwan features" was coined by President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九). Among its...

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