Taiwan’s struggling smartphone maker HTC has said it would sell part of its smartphone business to Google for $ 1.1 billion as the US giant looks to take greater control of its hardware business. Google will take on half of HTC’s research staff ... ( read original story ...)
iPhone 8 Plus Battery Swelling Problem Crops Up in Taiwan
TNW found Taiwan news reports saying week-old iPhone 8 Plus units ... Galaxy Note 7 owners learned last year when their phones caught fire, causing injuries and property damage. In Samsung’s case, the batteries had defects, and the cavity in the phones ... ( read original story ...)
Maverick mayor shakes up Taiwan politics
But the blunt style of Ko Wen-je, the Taipei mayor and former top surgeon ... after being seen as too close to Beijing and elite business interests. Meanwhile, the Democratic Progressive party, which swept to power last year under new President Tsai ... ( read original story ...)
TSMC to build 3nm foundry in Tainan
Taipei, Sept. 29 (CNA) Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co ... The choice will allow TSMC to take full advantage of the company's existing business cluster and supply chain at the park, TSMC said in a statement on Friday. TSMC also thanked the government ... ( read original story ...)
Taiwan revisited, 31 years later
The trip from the airport to Taipei was in an airconditioned bus ... to invite Filipinos to advance trade and business, and cultural exchanges between the two countries. Acer, a Taiwan company, is one of the foremost brands that come to mind for the ... ( read original story ...)
Film Review: ‘The Great Buddha+’
Arguably the best film to emerge from a year of exciting resurgence in Taiwan, which hasn’t produced an independent film that addresses themes both local and global in some time, “Buddha” swept the board at the Taipei Film Awards, and should be ... ( read original story ...)
Office rents in skyscrapers in London are highest in Europe despite Brexit
The report says that the recovering US economy and low unemployment rate have translated into increased business confidence and demand for ... Frankfurt, Dubai, Taipei, Madrid, Manila and Seoul. Skyscraper rents fell by 3.9% in Shanghai, by 2.2% in Los ... ( read original story ...)
East West Bancorp Announces Dates for Third Quarter 2017 Financial Results
--(BUSINESS WIRE)--East West Bancorp ... and representative offices in Beijing, Chongqing, Guangzhou, Taipei and Xiamen. For more information on East West, visit the Company’s website at www.eastwestbank.com. ( read original story ...)
Vecow launches ARS-2000 Series New Generation Embedded Box PC
New Taipei, Taiwan, September 29 ... We do offer one-stop, flexibly customized solution kit for any professionals as well as our business partners, with the effort-saving projects, most of the mission-oriented embedded applications can be carried out." ( read original story ...)
Japan Gets Its First Official Lamborghini Store At Ginza
Dubai and Taipei have one store each ... Collezione Automobili Lamborghini store which has been opened in the Ginza district of Tokyo. The business and fashion capital of Japan is a great spot for the store which will be the one-stop destination for ... ( read original story ...)
Bliss & Wisdom, largest Tibetan Buddhist group in Taiwan faces crisis
Now the Buddhist organization in Taiwan — where over a thousand monks and nuns ... He is claiming legal ownership of the Fengshan Monastery property. The following allegation have been made by the the former abbot and his group. In their allegations ... ( read original story ...)
Diode maker Eris looks to revenue and profit growth in 2018
Taiwan-based Eris Technology, which specializes in the manufacture of rectifier diodes, expects to enjoy another year of revenue and profit growth in 2018, driven by robust orders for automotive electronics, according to company chairman Jonathan Chang. ( read original story ...)
EDI/Master Transportation to jointly develop Taiwan’s first e-bus
The stringent anti-idle and emissions reduction mandates require the 10,000+ diesel buses operating in cities across Taiwan be replaced with all-electric ... its EDI PowerDrive and EDI PowerSuite technology into more than100 PHEV and EV buses throughout ... ( read original story ...)
Burton Mills: World Reaching “Peak Gold”, Says WGC
TAIPEI, Taiwan, Sept. 28, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Burton Mills: The World Gold Council has announced that global gold production may have reached what it is calling "peak gold". The term was traditionally been applied to oil production at a time when ... ( read original story ...)
Netflix Greenlights Asian-American Series ‘A Taiwanese Tale of Two Cities’
a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner in Taipei and a Taiwanese-American programmer in San Francisco, who swap homes and then follow their respective cultural odysseys in each city.” The series will be directed by accomplished Taiwanese director ... ( read original story ...)
Housing transactions expected to grow 10% in 2017: realtor
Taipei, Sept. 29 (CNA) Transactions of residential and commercial property in Taiwan are expected to grow more than 10 percent in 2017 as the country's economic recovery takes hold, the H&B Business Group, a leading real estate agency, said Friday. ( read original story ...)