First Straits talks in 9 years open
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2008-06-12 11:30
Chiang Pin-kun (L), chairman of the Taiwan-based Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF), shakes hands with Chen Yunlin, chairman of mainland's Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS), at the start of cross-Straits talks in Beijing June 12, 2008. ARATS and SEF sit down to the first talks in almost a decade on Thursday, to discuss the possibility of starting cross-Straits chartered flights on the weekend and mainland tourists traveling to the island. [Xinhua]
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