My comment: The report says "这个 [立法院] 修正案有待总统宣布后生效," There is no check-and-balance mechanism in the constitution of Republic of China; president can not veto budgets or bills of Legislature. So the bill is final.
Note:
(a) Taipei Times also publishes the same report, with additions supplied by the Taiwanese newspaper's staff, one being: "According to the Civil Aeronautics Administration, Japan is the third country to sign an open skies agreement with Taiwan, following the US and Singapore."
(b) Open Skies http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_skies
(section 3 Civil transport open skies)
(c) Open Skies Agreements. US Department of State, undated. http://www.state.gov/e/eeb/tra/ata/
Please click two tags:
(i) "Full List of Open Skies Partners"
, which shows Partner 14 Taiwan, Date Concluded 2/28/97)
The number "14" alludes to Taiwan being the fourteenth partner, in chronological order.
(ii) "Select a letter below to see all countries beginning with that letter."
, where T does not include Taiwan (not is Taiwan categorized in C, as Republic of China or Chinese Taipei, say).
(d) Michelle Grant, 2010 a Big Year for US Open Skies Agreements. Euromonitor, Mar 4, 2011 (blog) http://blog.euromonitor.com/2011 ... ies-agreements.html
("Some key markets, however, still do not have open skies agreements with the US including, China, Hong Kong, Russia, Mexico and South Africa")
(5) Peter Clarke, TSMC: 28-nm Tech, Demand 'on Plan.' EETimes, Nov 7, 2011 http://www.eetimes.com/electroni ... C-28-nm-tech-demand
(TSMC "has pushed back against claims by market researchers at Gartner Inc that foundries are having problems with yield on 28-nm process technologies")
My comment: The Gartner report said chip makers had problems with 28-nm process, but did not mention TSMC by name.