Chinese mainland's CNOOC signs oil agreements with Taiwan's CPC Corp.

BEIJING, Dec. 26 (Chinese media) -- China National Offshore Oil Corp. (CNOOC), mainland's largest offshore explorer, signed four cooperation agreements with Taiwan's CPC Corp Friday.

The four cooperation agreements were signed by CNOOC's Chairman and CEO Fu Chengyu and CPC's Chairman Wenent Pan, who was visiting Beijing.

The agreements included a letter of intent for closer cooperation, a revised contract on joint exploration in the Tainan Basin of the Taiwan Strait and the Chaozhou Shantou Basin off mainland's Guangdong coast, joint study on the Wuqiuyu Basin off mainland Fujian coast, and transfer of a 30 percent stake of CNOOC's onshore Block 9 in Kenya to CPC.

Fu Chengyu said CNOOC has established good cooperation with CPC Corp. in 1994 when the two companies started cooperation.

CPC Corp., based in Taipei, is a fully integrated oil and gas company with about 15,000 employees.

Mainland, Taiwan hold economic,

cultural forum

The 4th Cross-Straits Economic, Trade

and Cultural Forum between the Chinese mainland and southeast China's

Taiwan begins in Shanghai, east China, Dec. 20, 2008. (Chinese media

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SHANGHAI, Dec. 20 (Chinese media) -- The 4th Cross-Straits

Economic, Trade and Cultural Forum between the Chinese mainland and Taiwan began

here Saturday morning.

Jia Qinglin, member of the Standing Committee of the

Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee Political Bureau, and

Kuomintang (KMT) Chairman Wu Poh-hsiung and Honorary Chairman Lien Chan

attended. Full story

Chinese mainland, Taiwan start direct

links after 59 years

Passengers from southeast China's Taiwan

gesture before boarding the plane at the airport in Shenzhen, south

China's Guangdong Province, Dec. 15, 2008. A Shenzhen Airlines flight took

off from the Shenzhen Airport for Taiwan at 7:20 Beijing Time (2320 GMT

Dec. 14), the first when the Chinese mainland and Taiwan started direct

air and sea transport and postal services Monday morning. (Chinese media

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BEIJING, Dec. 15 (Chinese media) -- The Chinese mainland and

Taiwan started direct air and sea transport and postal services on Monday amid

warming ties, ending a 59-year ban on such links.

Formerly, air and sea movements -- including mail -- had

to go by way of a third place.

The direct daily transport started as a mainland-based

Shenzhen Airlines flight took off from the Shenzhen Airport for Taipei at 7:20

a.m.(2320 GMT Sunday), which was followed by a Taiwan-based TransAsia Airways

jetliner from Taipei to Shanghai. Full story

Chinese mainland, Taiwan start direct

postal service

TAIPEI, Dec. 15 (Chinese media) -- Wu Min-yu, chairman of the

Taiwan-based Chunghwa Post Co. Ltd., sent out a letter to Liu Andong, president

of the Chinese mainland's China Post Corporation, on 9:17 a.m. (1:17 GMT),

marking the start of direct postal service between the two sides. Full story