Category: FINANCE

When more than 6,000 spectators packed into Changhua County Stadium on Dec. 19 last year, they were there to witness a historic moment — the first professional basketball game in Taiwan since the ... ( read original story ...)

The S&P 500 and NASDAQ set record closing highs on Friday as investors bought energy, financial and materials shares and sold big tech stocks in anticipation of new fiscal aid from Washington to help ... ( read original story ...)

US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen stressed the need for the G7 countries to “go big” with fiscal stimulus to support economic recovery from the global pandemic. In her first call with foreign ... ( read original story ...)

Kuomintang aims to court US support by reopening its Washington office, closed after it last won power in Taiwan, but anti-Beijing sentiment there has hardened. ( read original story ...)

China has created financial dependence amongst several South Asian and Southeast Asian countries and has pushed its agenda of establishing commercial bases in t ... ( read original story ...)

After the pandemic torpedoed his chance to work at a Michelin-starred New York restaurant, Lim Wei Keat returned to his roots by becoming a Singapore street-food chef cooking local fare. The ... ( read original story ...)

AdvisorNet Financial Inc decreased its stake in Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited (NYSE:TSM) by 10.2% in the fourth quarter, HoldingsChannel reports. The firm owned 11,914 shares of ... ( read original story ...)

Only three out of 560 companies that listed on US stock markets in 2020 were founded by women, according to Bloomberg. At lunch time in Sydney, the broad ASX All Ordinaries index was marginally lower, ... ( read original story ...)

Malaysia’s economic contraction quickened again in the fourth quarter, as a fresh virus wave late last year helped drive the economy to its worst annual showing since the Asian financial crisis. GDP ... ( read original story ...)

Deutsche Bank has been named as one of the four banks that Taiwan penalized for speculation. The past weekend, Taiwans central bank announced that it banned the German multinational investment bank ... ( read original story ...)

Clubhouse has in just two months become the venue of choice for luminaries like Elon Musk or Drake to expound on everything from telepathic monkeys to stock market valuations. But the real winner of ... ( read original story ...)

Joe Biden, in his first conversation as president with the Chinese leader Xi Jinping, spoke of his concern about China’s “coercive and unfair economic practices” as well as human rights abuses in the ... ( read original story ...)

A JP Morgan Asset Management fund that has more than doubled in the past year is making the booming initial public offering market for Asia’s technology companies its top investment priority in 2021. ( read original story ...)

Coconala See the original story in Japanese. Tokyo-based Coconala, the startup behind an online platform under the same name where you can buy and sell knowledge, skills and, ... ( read original story ...)

ICP DAS- Biomedical Polymers ("ICP DAS-BMP") is a medical TPU supplier in Taiwan. Today, the company officially announced that it begins to offer its medical thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) to the ... ( read original story ...)

South Korea’s jobless rate surged to its highest in more than two decades, raising concern that an export-driven recovery could be masking a harsher scarring of the economy. The unemployment rate ... ( read original story ...)