The long-awaited memorandum of understanding -- an agreement that will allow mainland investors to buy Taiwan stocks and is meant to build tighter ties between financial institutions -- "is expected to be signed this year," said Lee Chi-Hsien, director-general of Securities and Futures Bureau at Taiwan's Financial Supervisory Commission. |
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Margaret Bassett passed away August 21, 2011. She was a treasured member of the Opednews.com editorial team for four years.
Margaret Bassett--OEN editor--is an 89-year old, currently living in senior housing, with a lifelong interest in political philosophy. Bachelors from State University of Iowa (1944) and Masters from Roosevelt University (1975) help to unravel important requirements for modern communication. Early introduction to computer science (1966) trumps them. It's payback time. She's been "entitled" so long she hopes to find some good coming off the keyboard into the lives of those who come after her.