Negotiators from China and Taiwan are today resuming formal talks that were suspended almost ten years ago. The meeting in Beijing comes less than a month after Taiwan's new president Ma Ying-Jeou was inaugurated. The talks are expected to result in an agreement to allow more Chinese tourists to visit Taiwan, and to launch direct passenger flights between both sides. Caroline Gluck reports from Taiwan.

The Taiwanese negotiators set off for their historic talks in Beijing on the journey that will first take them to Macao. The lack of direct flights except on major holidays means they have to change planes before reaching their final destination. But from next month, if all goes to plan, there'll be direct weekend charter flights between the two sides. There is also likely to be a deal to allow thousands more Chinese tourists to visit Taiwan, which Beijing claims that it is their own territory.