Pillsbury Prepares New Taiwan Office After Raid on V&E

Intellectual property litigators Christopher Kao and David Tsai have left Vinson & Elkins to join Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman as partners in San Francisco. Kao and Tsai, both of whom are among the fewer than 50 registered foreign lawyers in Taiwan ... ( read original story ...)

Taiwan boosts domestic arms makers

Standing on his company's sprawling campus in central Taiwan, Lin Nan-juh says he's able to make any plane his island's government calls for. "We can do whatever's asked," says Lin, president of Aerospace Industrial Development Corp, or AIDC, a leader in ... ( read original story ...)

M17 Entertainment Files For U.S. IPO

Taipei City, Taiwan-based M17 Entertainment was founded in 2015 to operate ... M17 intends to raise $115 million in gross proceeds from an IPO of ADSs. Representing the ADSs will be underlying Class A shares, which will be entitled to one (1) vote per ... ( read original story ...)

Taiwan Stock Market May Rebound

Among actives, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company suffered a dip of 1.32 percent. Hon Hai Precision went down by 0.36 percent and Innolux lost about 0.87 percent. Others losers included Cathay Financial dipping 0.91 percent. The list of gainers ... ( read original story ...)

Island or Rock? Taiwan Defends Its Claim in South China Sea

ITU ABA, South China Sea — The largest natural feature of the Spratly Islands, the hotly disputed archipelago in the South China Sea, is a forested, sun-drenched oval of land, cleaved by a single runway that gives the place the appearance of a raw coffee ... ( read original story ...)

Taiwan ‘Angry’ Over Not Being Invited to WHO Assembly

GENEVA — Taiwan's health minister says the island feels "very angry" that it was not invited to the World Health Organization assembly in Geneva. Chen Shih-Chung attributed the U.N. body's refusal to let Taiwan participate to tensions between mainland ... ( read original story ...)

Taiwan president, pressed by Beijing, pledges more security

TAIPEI, Taiwan - Taiwan's president said Sunday her government will step up security measures to respond to military threats from China. President Tsai Ing-wen gave no details in comments posted online but her government has encouraged development of a ... ( read original story ...)