This announcement comes a week after New Delhi levied a 10 percent import duty on some key smartphone components, including populated PCBs. The South Asian nation is Xiaomi's second-largest market after China. Xiaomi's SMT plant will be run by Taiwan's ... ( read original story ...)
Video: Prototype shows how foldable smartphones might appear
Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) has showcased a prototype foldable AMOLED display, and now we might have an idea what the future holds for foldable smartphones. The prototype can be seen in a video and while it's evident that the ... ( read original story ...)
Taiwan shares rise above 10,900 on increased turnover
The Taiwan Stock Exchange's main index ... Largan Precision Co., a supplier of smartphone camera lenses to Apple Inc., gained 8.30 percent to close at NT$3,250.00, while IC packaging and testing service provider Advanced Semiconductor Engineering Inc ... ( read original story ...)
Traveling outside the USA: how do I make my smartphone work
At the end of the week I will be traveling internationally to Taiwan. This is my first time owning an unlocked smartphone (a Moto E4) and I am trying to figure out how to keep in contact back home. My current carrier is a PAYGO plan with Mint and my ... ( read original story ...
Publisher Springer Nature heads for Frankfurt IPO
The company, which caused a stir in 2017 when it blocked access in China to at least 1,000 articles containing keywords deemed politically sensitive by the Chinese authorities, such as “Taiwan ... The intended IPO will help us to accelerate ... ( read original story ...)
Taiwan Mobile reports strong earnings for March
Taiwan Mobile outperformed peer telecom operators Chunghwa Telecom (CHT) and Far EasTone Telecommunications (FET) in March and the first quarter of 2018 in terms of net earnings and EPS, according to data released by companies. Taiwan Mobile posted net ... ( read original story ...)
The future’s bright, Xi Jinping tells Taiwanese business chiefs, just don’t think of cutting loose
Ties between Beijing and Taipei have been frosty since President Tsai Ing-wen ... said any integration of markets across the Taiwan Strait would be welcomed by Taiwan’s business community, but not necessarily by the Tsai administration. ( read original story ...)
State-Run Dating Service Is Taiwan’s Solution to Aging Society
Taiwan hopes to tackle the most pressing of first-world problems through increased government intervention in people’s love lives. The interior ministry says it will organize more official match-making events in 2018 as part of a push to reverse a rapid ... ( read original story ...)
Taiwan: Finance Ministry Confirms Crypto Regulation Using Existing AML Laws
The government of Taiwan confirmed it will create cryptocurrency regulation based on extant anti-money laundering (AML) practices April 10. In a statement, the nation’s finance ministry said it had opted to use AML rules already applied to traditional ... ( read original story ...)
Taiwan leader appoints key ally to head presidential office
TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen on Wednesday named a key ally to head her office and lead communications efforts aimed at shoring up her wilting approval ratings in the runup to local elections this year. The appointment comes a day after ... ( read original story ...)
Cathay Financial terminates deal to acquire bank in Malaysia
Taipei, April 11 (CNA) Cathay Financial Holding Co., one of the largest financial institutions in Taiwan, said Wednesday that it has terminated an agreement to acquire the Canada-based Bank of Nova Scotia's banking assets in Malaysia. In a filing with the ... ( read original story ...)
Taiwan wants to share its success on providing universal health care
With the World Health Organization’s declaration of achieving universal health care around the world as its top priority, we share Drs. P.G. Forest and Danielle Martin’s observation that any health-care reform must have people at the centre. Everyone ... ( read original story ...)
Taiwan Stock Market Tipped To Open In The Green
Taiwan Cement spiked 2.28 percent, Fubon Financial climbed 1.39 percent, Mega Financial added 0.79 percent, CTBC Financial collected 0.24 percent and Cathay Financial and Advanced Semiconductor Engineering were unchanged. The lead from Wall Street is ... ( read original story ...)
Taiwan’s Cathay Financial scraps plan to buy Bank of Nova Scotia’s Malaysia unit
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Taiwan's Cathay Financial Holding Co said on Wednesday two of its group firms have scrapped a plan to buy Bank of Nova Scotia's Malaysian unit as the deal could not closed before its deadline. Cathay Financial said ... ( read original story ...)
China hits out at US for authorizing submarine technology sales to Taiwan
FILE PHOTO: The Virginia-class USS North Dakota (SSN 784) submarine / Reuters China has criticized Washington’s arms sales to Taiwan, after the island said the US had authorized manufacturers to sell the licenses necessary for its domestic submarine project. ( read original story ...)
US Grants Licenses to Help Taiwan Build Fleet of Attack Subs
The U.S. Department of State has approved licenses for U.S. defense contractors to sell sensitive U.S.-made submarine technology to Taiwan to support the construction of a yet to be determined number of domestically-designed and -produced diesel-electric ... ( read original story ...)