Leaders of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and the Taiwan-based Kuomintang (KMT) party will meet in Beijing in May, a mainland official said on Friday.
One person was killed and another injured after a powerful earthquake in waters off Taiwan on Monday morning caused a fire.
The Chinese mainland welcomes Taiwan's participation in the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) under an appropriate name, said a mainland spokesman on Wednesday.
Health authorities in Taiwan are investigating how food products made near Japan's Fukushima nuclear power plant have illegally entered the island with false origin labels.
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday stressed the peaceful development of the cross-Strait ties, urging high vigilance against the Taiwan independence.
The Alibaba Group will provide Taiwan authorities with the information they have demanded from the company after accusing it of being improperly registered and threatening to oust it from the island, executive chairman Jack Ma said on Tuesday.
Taiwan's new mainland affairs chief Andrew Hsia on Tuesday vowed to inject new energy into cross-Strait relations and create a new future for both sides across the Taiwan Strait.
The resignation of Taiwan's mainland affairs chief Wang Yu-chi will not affect normalization of the cross-Strait contact mechanism, said a mainland official on Wednesday.
At least 32 people were confirmed dead and 12 others are still missing in Wednesday's TransAsia Airways plane crash, the island's response authority said late Thursday.
Sixteen of the 31 confirmed deaths in the Taiwan TransAsia Airways plane crash were Chinese mainland residents, according to the local disaster response authority.
A Taiwan TransAsia Airways plane crashed into a Taipei river on Wednesday morning, 13 have died and three are in a critical condition, a Xinhua reporter on the scene reported.
The Cross-Strait Economic Cooperation Committee (ECC) on Thursday morning opened its seventh regular meeting in Taipei to review the implementation of a landmark trade agreement signed by the mainland and Taiwan in 2010.
Chinese mainland will take active measures to create favorable conditions to expand agriculture and fishery cooperation with Taiwan, a senior official said Tuesday.
Visitors from the Chinese mainland are allowed to travel to Taiwan's outlying islands of Penghu, Kinmen and Matsu starting Thursday, without applying in advance for Taiwan-issued entry permits.
Taiwan's leader Ma Ying-jeou on Tuesday filed criminal and civil suits against a well known commentator who claimed that Ma accepted political donations from a local corporation.
The fruits of economic cooperation across the Taiwan Strait should be shared among all the people, on both sides, declared senior officials from the Chinese mainland at a cross-Strait entrepreneurs summit which opened in Taipei on Monday.
In an act of solidarity for the incumbent party's defeat in the local Taiwan election on Saturday, all officials from the Taiwan administrative authority resigned on Monday.
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