Taiwan's wartime resistance wins praise

Experts from across the Taiwan Straits and Hong Kong praised the role that Chinese compatriots in Taiwan played in the fight against Japanese invaders during the island's half-century as a Japanese colony, during a seminar commemorating the 70th anniversary of victory in the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression (1937-45) and the recovery of Taiwan.

Some 130 officials and scholars from Canada, Japan, South Korea and China - including the Chinese mainland, Taiwan and Hong Kong - attended the seminar, which opened in Guangzhou on Sunday.

Zhang Haipeng, head of the Association of Chinese Historians, said that Taiwan compatriots never ceased fighting.