Category: FINANCE

Taiwan Semiconductor previously bought 1,129 acres to build a $12 billion factory, joining other semiconductor makers with operations in metro Phoenix ... ( read original story ...)

Rakuten International Commercial Bank (RICB) will become the first Internet-only bank to start operation in Taiwan by the end of. ( read original story ...)

The former chairman of one of China’s biggest state-owned asset-management companies receives the death penalty on bribery and corruption charges, a striking signal in Beijing’s campaign to rein in ... ( read original story ...)

The Ant Financial IPO should have added $34 billion for Ant ... This could hurt Baidu (NASDAQ:BIDU), Taiwan Semiconductor (NYSE:TSM), and Tencent. Notably, TSM resides in Taiwan, not China. ( read original story ...)

Asia Pacific Wire & Cable Corporation Limited (NASDAQ: APWC ) (“APWC” or the “Company”), a leading manufacturer of wire and cable products for the telecommunications and electric-power industries in ... ( read original story ...)

The wage hike is expected to benefit some 1,558,500 workers, which includes 1,097,700 Taiwanese and 460,800 foreigners. ( read original story ...)

Retired Army Gen. Lloyd Austin, if confirmed as secretary of defense, will rejoin a senior adviser at the Pentagon who privately expressed some unconventional views on alliances with longtime U.S. ( read original story ...)

Mexico's government has issued its first "Formosa bond" with an offering of 50-year notes in U.S. dollars on the Taiwanese market and raised $3 billion, the finance ministry said on Monday. ( read original story ...)

Alibaba's Jack Ma is the most celebrated Chinese entrepreneur in the world, however, now he has a target on his back and he only has one man to blame for it - Chinese President Xi Jinping. The Chinese ... ( read original story ...)

Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec and Cathay Private Equity have agreed to acquire a 50 percent interest in Ørsted's 605-megawatt Greater Changhua 1 Offshore Wind Farm in Taiwan. ( read original story ...)

The enlarged board would strengthen the hand of the Tsai family, which owns 29.98 per cent stake in Convoy, against an attempt by Kwok Hui-kwan – with 29.91 per cent shareholding – to seize control of ... ( read original story ...)

The Chinese always test incoming American presidents. George W. Bush had his “EP-3 Hainan Incident” (he announced an US$8 billion arms package for Taiwan); Obama had his “USNS Impeccable” (he ignored ... ( read original story ...)

The finance minister for Canada’s most populous province resigned Thursday after going on a Caribbean vacation during the pandemic and seemingly trying to hide the fact by ... ( read original story ...)

A new year does not mean the end of some of the issues that grabbed the attention of Asia's business leaders and entrepreneurs in 2020. The coronavirus pandemic has not interrupted intense debates ... ( read original story ...)

COVID-19 pandemic. Directed by Hsiao Ya-chuan (蕭雅全) and uses “Thank You” by artist Summer Lei (雷光夏) as background music, the video restores the 91 days where more than 2,600 CTBC employees worked ... ( read original story ...)

Graphcore has raised $222 million as it looks to take on U.S rivals Nvidia and Intel. The Series E funding round, which comes less than a year after Graphcore raised a $150 million extension to its ... ( read original story ...)