Category: FINANCE

A Chinese citizen journalist serving a four-year sentence after reporting on the early stage of the COVID-19 pandemic in the city of Wuhan is in ill health after staging a long-running hunger strike, ... ( read original story ...)

Card firm allowed to pursue longer-term IPO plan By Park Jae-hyuk Affinity Equity Partners, GIC and AlpInvest Partners sold their stakes in Hyundai Card to Taiwan's Fubon Financia ... ( read original story ...)

Officials were also concerned about fragments of the virus that causes Covid-19 found in a sewage treatment plant in an area where coronavirus cases were previously unknown. “This detection is of ... ( read original story ...)

Schools would open for the new semester on Sept. 1 as long as the nation’s COVID-19 alert remains at level 2 over the coming weeks, most local governments said yesterday. Taipei Deputy Mayor Tsai Ping ... ( read original story ...)

About one-quarter of vulnerable families served by the Taiwan Fund for Children and Families (TFCF) have been financially affected since the start of a domestic COVID-19 outbreak in May, the ... ( read original story ...)

Taiwan’s Financial Supervisory Commission and Ministry of Finance reach consensus to extend the reduction in securities transaction tax rate for day trading after current rule expires by end of 2021, ... ( read original story ...)

The Taiwan stock market has finished lower in seven straight sessions, plunging more than 640 points or 3.7 percent along the way. The Taiwan Stock Exchange now rests just above the 16,980-point ... ( read original story ...)

This week the government announced another COVID-19 relief voucher plan. The funding will come from the fund originally established for the crisis, which still has NT$160 billion left in it, and is ... ( read original story ...)

The operators of the country’s four largest MRT metro rail systems have predicted combined losses of up to NT$10.156 billion (US$364.54 million) due to low ridership after the nationwide COVID-19 ... ( read original story ...)

Small-cap stocks are defined as those companies with a market cap of less than $2 billion -- perhaps too small a figure as that strict definition has been in place for some two decades now, but we ... ( read original story ...)

Asian markets fell on Friday as a broadly positive week drew to a close with investors pricing in the likelihood that US Federal Reserve officials would start withdrawing the vast financial support ... ( read original story ...)

China's securities regulators punished 19 institutional investors as authorities tighten scrutiny over price-setting behaviours under a more liberalised listing system. ( read original story ...)

As China annihilated its edtech and consumer internet companies, American savings became a massive collateral casualty. ( read original story ...)

That would be Taiwan’s strongest annual growth since 2010 when the economy bounced back in the wake of the global financial crisis. While officials are increasingly bullish about exports, raising ... ( read original story ...)

Investment company Wedgewood Partners, Inc. (Current Portfolio) buys Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co, Paychex Inc, sells Alcon Inc, Bristol-Myers Squibb Company during the 3-months ended 2021Q2, ... ( read original story ...)

Asian equities ended the week mixed with India outperforming while the Philippines, Korea and Taiwan underperformed in a fairly quiet August Friday. ( read original story ...)