With annual trade at about US$100 billion, Taiwanese businesses have pushed for years to end the ban on direct links across the 160-kilometer wide Taiwan Strait.

两岸每年贸易额约1000亿美金，台湾企业多年来一直在要求结束在160公里宽的台湾海峡上实行的直航禁令。

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In 2001, a "mini three links" was established, allowing postal, transportation and trade between the mainland's coastal Fujian province and the islands of Jinmen and Matsu in Taiwan.

“小三通”于2001年启动，允许大陆沿海省份福建和台湾金门、马祖两岛之间实现通邮、通航、通商。

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Taiwan doesn't have diplomatic relations with Japan but, as in many other capitals, it does have a de facto embassy - called, as elsewhere, the Taiwan Trade Office.

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But a request by Indonesia and Malaysia for Taiwan to accept trade quotations in local currencies, rather than in dollars, has resulted in a polite note from Taiwan's Board of Foreign Trade that the island's entrepreneurs may find the risk unacceptable.

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The timing means Asus is likely to show off the device at Computex, a Taiwan-based trade show for the computer industry.

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