Category: FINANCE

China’s junk bond market started to falter a few weeks ago, and heavily leveraged Evergrande is just the latest "crack" ... ( read original story ...)

Is Evergrande going to default? Several years ago, three highly indebted Chinese companies teetered on collapse (HNA, Anbang, Fosun). The collapse of those companies could have led to a domino effect ... ( read original story ...)

Taiwan has been eager to hatch its own unicorns to join the ranks of global US$1billion companies. However, this is not happening. Gogoro Inc and Appier Group Inc, two local start-ups with the best ... ( read original story ...)

The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here — just click The Station — to receive it every weekend in your inbox. Hello readers: Welcome to The Station, ... ( read original story ...)

Online classifieds marketplace Carousell, Southeast Asia’s latest unicorn, is eyeing expansion and considering an initial public offering (IPO). ( read original story ...)

The combined exposure of the nation’s financial holding companies to the US last quarter increased 4 percent on a quarterly basis to NT$6.84 trillion (US$246.6 billion), the highest of all overseas ... ( read original story ...)

Taiwan government will help local growers of wax apples and custard apples after China announced ban on the import of these fruits from the self-ruled island s ... ( read original story ...)

I was fortunate to spend a few days among the Paiwan, an Aboriginal people in the south central highlands of Taiwan. I was in the country for typically academic reasons, attending a conference at a ... ( read original story ...)

What are the topics covered this week? There's a Mannerisms blog on China's tech industry crackdown, Digi-Key signing a distribution deal with Siemens, Kaohsiung getting its first TSMC fab, ... ( read original story ...)

The Taiwan stock market has ended lower in four straight sessions, dropping almost 200 points or 1.2 percent along the way. The Taiwan Stock Exchange now sits just above the 17,275-point plateau ... ( read original story ...)

The well-known international financial magazine Global Finance on Tuesday held an online ceremony to announce the “Best Global Bank Awards 2021” winners. CTBC Bank Co (中國信託銀行) was named the “Best Bank ... ( read original story ...)

The battery-swapping Goliath known as Gogoro is going public on the Nasdaq stock exchange in a monumental deal set to value the company at around US $2.3 billion. Taiwan-based Gogoro has been named ... ( read original story ...)

Taipei-based Gogoro will list on Nasdaq through a merger with a US blank-cheque company as it seeks capital to expand in China and India. ( read original story ...)

NEXCOM, a leading supplier of network appliances, announces that the recently launched high-performance 2U rackmount appliance, NSA 7150, has been validated under 5G Security Assurance Specification ... ( read original story ...)

Taiwan proposed spending an extra T$240 billion ($8.69 billion) on defence over the next five years on Thursday, including on new missiles, warning of the urgent need to upgrade weapons in the face of ... ( read original story ...)

At an industrial unit on the outskirts of Taipei, Taiwan, you might see an unusual restaurant: an eatery with no tables and no waiters. These businesses are delivery-only kitchens known as “ghost ... ( read original story ...)