Category: FINANCE

Taiwan has appointed Yu-Ching Su, a former chief executive officer of Taipei Exchange, as the new director general of the Bureau of Labor Funds (BLF). Yu-Ching Su She replaces Feng-Ching Tsay, who was ... ( read original story ...)

Taiwan offered reassurances Monday it has sufficient water reserves to keep a giant tech industry led by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. humming till late May, when monsoon rains arrive to ... ( read original story ...)

Chloe Zhao's success — she's the first Asian woman and the second woman ever to win a Golden Globe for best director for her film “Nomadland” — has not been met with universal applause in her country ... ( read original story ...)

Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen visited a naval base on Monday to thank sailors and marines for their dedication to protecting the island amid renewed threats from China, vowing not to allow the loss ... ( read original story ...)

Shareable Asset, one of the few MAS licensed asset digitalization platforms, has appointed its new CEO. Michael Chin, formerly CEO of UBS Asset Management Singapore, joins as CEO effective Mar 5, 2021 ... ( read original story ...)

A forecast-busting US jobs report and the Senate’s approval of Joe Biden’s huge stimulus package helped push most Asian equities higher on Monday, while Brent crude broke past $70 for the first time ... ( read original story ...)

The Taiwan stock market has finished lower in two straight sessions, sinking more than 355 points or 2.1 percent along the way. The Taiwan stock Exchange now rests just above the 15,855-point plateau ... ( read original story ...)

Taiwan Ratings Corp (中華信評) on Thursday affirmed its long-term “twA” and short-term “twA-1”’ credit ratings for Acer Inc (宏碁), with a stable credit outlook for the PC vendor. The credit rating of a ... ( read original story ...)

Chinese defense funding will reach US$209 billion in 2021, and Premier Li Keqiang says the military will get a training boost. ( read original story ...)

Taipei International Airport (Songshan airport) was the only airport in the nation to turn a profit last year, albeit small, with most of the revenue coming from domestic flight services, Ministry of ... ( read original story ...)

Even though chipmakers from China's Taiwan island are in a leading position worldwide with their cutting-edge technologies such as 5-nanometer chips that can be used in high-end devices, it is hard ... ( read original story ...)

Elsewhere, Taipei built an efficient metro system from ... Polaris P-Shares MSCI Taiwan Financials 0.50% TT Polaris P-Shares S&P Taiwan Custom China Play 50 0.49% TT Polaris P-Shares Taiwan ... ( read original story ...)

Assam Finance Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Saturday labelled the state Congress unit a "fake news factory" for using a video of a mock drill in Jharkhand as police brutality during protests against ... ( read original story ...)

Assam’s Finance Minister and the BJP’s chief poll strategist Himanta Biswa Sarma has labelled the Congress a “fake news factory” for allegedly passing off a mock drill video from Jharkhand as shooting ... ( read original story ...)

Figures in the IPO prospectus indicate Fix Price has a 93 percent share ... This column does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the editorial board or Bloomberg LP and its owners. Taiwan ... ( read original story ...)

At the end of last year, the nation’s 15 financial conglomerates saw their combined foreign exposure rise 2.1 percent to NT$20.89 trillion (US$738.79 billion at the current exchange rate) from ... ( read original story ...)