Chinese mainland, Taiwan sign historic agreement

BEIJING, June 13 (Xinhua) -- Chinese mainland and Taiwan signed the agreements on cross-Strait weekend charted flights and mainland tourists traveling to Taiwan around 9 a.m. Friday.
 
The Chinese mainland's Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Strait and the Taiwan-based Straits Exchange Foundation on Thursday convened their first talks in nine years to discuss the weekend charted flights and mainland tourists traveling to Taiwan.