President urges vigilance as Typhoon Nesat hits Taiwan

Taipei, July 29 (CNA) President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) on Saturday directed authorities responsible for disaster prevention and rescue to stay vigilant for the possible impact to lives and property from Typhoon Nesat, which is forecast to make landfall ... ( read original story ...)

Elderly Taiwan Women Reinvent Local Rush Weaving Industry

For a long time, the products of rush weaving have been reputed for their flexibility, natural sweet smell, smooth feeling and inherent property to dispel mosquitoes ... Moreover, the Taiwan Yuan-Li Handiwork Association has often invited fashion designers ... ( read original story ...)

Property makes surprise contribution

Property investment grew by 8.5 percent in the first half compared ... "Throughout Asia, in cities like Taipei, Hong Kong and Singapore, rental yields are less than 2 percent. It is a mental and cultural attitude of buyers. When they hold a physical ... ( read original story ...)

Ting Hsin former chairman jailed in oil scandal

Taipei, July 28 (CNA) Wei Ying-chung (魏應充), the former ... After Wei's appeal, the Intellectual Property Court reduced his sentence to two years in the second trial in April 2016. The ruling is final and cannot be appealed because prosecutors charged ... ( read original story ...)

AIT: Taiwan-U.S. dialogue will help bilateral ties

according to a spokeswoman for the American Institute in Taiwan (AIT). Sonia Urbom said that the dialogue, which is expected to run through Friday, will cover a wide range of topics, such as intellectual property rights protection, pharmaceuticals ... ( read original story ...)

Bangkok’s property market picking up slightly

The major attraction to Bangkok property has been price ... with buyers from Singapore, Taiwan and Japan also making an impact. However, sales to Thai nationals are not anticipated to grow much more than the Bt28bn recorded in 2016, and experts are ... ( read original story ...)

Deciphering China’s Economic Resilience

From Thailand and Indonesia to South Korea and Taiwan, China was widely thought to be next ... focused on the twin headwinds of deleveraging and a related tightening of the property market – in essence, a Japanese-like stagnation. Once more, the Western ... ( read original story ...)

3 Things This Struggling Apple Inc. Supplier Wants You to Know

Back in April, longtime Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) supplier Imagination Technologies (NASDAQOTH: IGNMF) disclosed to investors that Apple -- Imagination's largest customer, by far -- that it would no longer use Imagination's graphics intellectual property in its ... ( read original story ...)

Manufacturing, service sector sentiment improves

In the construction sector, Sun said sentiment improved in June based on the government's infrastructure development plan and the heavy delivery of residential property development projects. In June, transactions of homes, shops and offices in Taipei ... ( read original story ...)

Thai property market buoyed by foreign buyers

Taiwan and Singapore also prominent. Foreign buyers, especially those from Hong Kong and mainland China, have offered a welcome relief to Southeast Asian property markets experiencing weak domestic demand. A Knight Frank research showed that Singapore and ... ( read original story ...)