PRESS DIGEST-Taiwan - May 30
TAIPEI, May 30 (Reuters) - Taiwan newspapers carried the following stories on Friday. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.
CHINA TIMES
-- China's top Taiwan negotiator, Chen Yunlin, will meet in Beijing with his counterparts from the island on June 11 to work out a deal for direct cross-strait flights and more Chinese tourist access to Taiwan.
UNITED DAILY NEWS
-- Former Chinese foreign ministry official Wang Yi became the director of his government's Taiwan Affairs Office.
-- Heads of households with children under 2 years old can get 60 percent of their salaries during time off under a new welfare plan that the premier will announce on Friday.
LIBERTY TIMES
-- structural problems were found on a 30-year-old, 48-metre-high air control tower at the Taoyuan International Airport, which handles more than 600 international flights daily.
-- Taiwan's top China policymaker, Lai Shin-yuan, told a news conference that meetings between the ruling Nationalist Party (KMT) and the Communist Party of China would not replace formal dialogue between semi-governmental organisations on each side.
COMMERCIAL TIMES
-- The owners of the Agora Garden development in the Hsinyi District of Taipei will accept bids for the site today, with a minimum asking price of T$14.9 billion ($489 million).
ECONOMIC DAILY NEWS
-- President Chain Store (2912.TW) has finally won the right to open 7-Eleven convenience stores in Shanghai, with plans to open its first stores by the end of the year.
