State weather bureau PAGASA said Super Typhoon Carina (international name: Gaemi) is forecast to make landfall over northern Taiwan on Wednesday night before exiting the Philippine area of ...
China Shows Few Signs of Tilting Economy Toward Consumers in New Plan
The Communist Party rebuffed calls from economists to shift away from investment-led growth and toward consumer spending.
Huawei sues Taiwan’s MediaTek over alleged patent infringement
TAIPEI -- Huawei Technologies is suing Taiwanese mobile chip developer MediaTek over alleged infringement of its intellectual property patents, the latest example of the Chinese company's efforts to ...
Chips lose $500B in market cap amid export control fears, Trump’s Taiwan comments
Semiconductor stocks slumped on Wednesday after it was reported the U.S. government may impose further export curb controls and President Trump made comments about Taiwan. Read for more.
China’s retailers cash in on Trump’s close call with souvenir T-shirts
Retailers told Chinese media outlets that they were surprised at how quickly the T-shirts were snapped up. “We put the T-shirts on Taobao as soon as we saw the news about the sh ...
Island of riches: Taiwan reaps benefits of AI boom
The AI windfall is just the latest boost to Taiwan’s wealth. During the pandemic, its massive electronics hardware industry benefited from the semiconductor and IT boom triggered by demand for ...
DBS raises GDP forecast for Taiwan to 4.2 percent
Singapore-based DBS Bank yesterday raised its forecast for Taiwan’s GDP growth this year to 4.2 percent, from the 3.5 percent it predicted in April, as the nation’s exports are expected to improve, ...
China Is Holding a Major Meeting on the Economy That You Can’t Watch
President Xi Jinping will preside over a conclave to draft a new economic program. The stakes are high, but expectations for big changes are modest.
Taiwan, India threaten China’s top spot in emerging market equity portfolios
Thanks to record stock rallies, Taiwan and India now command more than 19% weightings each in the MSCI EM Index. That compares to China’s 22.8%, whose standing has steadily shrunk over the past few ...
Most seniors want to live with their children
More than half of older people in Taiwan would prefer to live with their children, but an increasing number are living alone in rented homes, a survey by the Ministry of Health and Welfare found. The ...
China blacklists six American firms
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China in a statement announced that Beijing has sanctioned six American companies active in the arms industry and several of their executives.
Taiwan should not rely on China’s goodwill: minister
Taiwan’s future cannot be contingent on the goodwill of Beijing, Mainland Affairs Council Minister Chiu Chui-cheng (邱垂正) said in an interview published yesterday by the Chinese-language Liberty Times ...
Taiwan High Court rejects Cheng’s filing to protest detention
The Taoyuan District Court rejected an appeal by former Taoyuan Mayor Cheng Wen-tan (鄭文燦) to be released from jail on Friday (July 12), after he was ordered to be detained without visitation rights ...
What happened in 1624? —The legacy of Dutch rule in Taiwan
In 1624 the Dutch established a trading post in the New World, in what is now New York. In the same year, the Dutch East India Company came ashore in Taiwan in a place then called Dayuan (today part ...
A Mansion with a mission
In 1973, Koo’s sons Koo Chen-fu (辜振甫) and Koo Wei-fu (辜偉甫) transformed the mansion into a museum by donating the house and a collection of artifacts, later supplemented by other artifacts from the Koo ...
Taiwan representative to Fiji under investigation for misusing public funds
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — An investigation into the conduct of Taiwan’s representative to Fiji has begun after allegations of misspent public funds and other wrongdoing were published in local media.