Major property brokers reported a small monthly decline in housing transactions last month, but an annual drop of about 30 percent, dashing hopes of a high season, due to economic uncertainty and ...
Top 10 Stories of 2022: China’s Latest Land Purchase Could Pose Major U.S. Security Risk
That’s how we compete with China.” While China raises concerns over American boots on the ground in Asia, the country continues to grow its own footprint in the U.S. USDA’s latest data shows China ...
Taiwan’s housing market strengthens further
The housing market slowed in recent years, after dramatic government measures to curb speculative house purchases. It started to gain momentum again starting the second half of 2020, despite the Covid ...
China enters uncharted waters as Xi tightens his grip
The leader’s unprecedented third term opens with Covid protests, economic and housing issues and Taiwan strait crisis ...
China sends 71 warplanes, seven ships toward Taiwan in 24 hours
China's military sent 71 planes and seven ships toward Taiwan in a 24-hour display of force directed at the island, Taiwan's defence ministry said on Monday, after China expressed anger at ...
Bolstering Taiwan’s chip prowess
The competitive advantage of Taiwan’s semiconductor industry has increasingly been discernable among the global community, especially amid China’s bellicosity and heightened tensions across the Taiwan ...
Taiwan Residential Real Estate Market Analysis 2022
An average household in Taipei needs to pay two-thirds of income for a mortgage loan, far above the affordable limit of 30%. Worries about mainland speculators peaked in early 2008 when residential ...
Huawei licenses key tech to major European automakers
The patent licensing agreements, reached during the second half of 2022, mean Huawei technologies will be used in 15 million of the 70 million cars produced globally each year, Alan Fan, global head ...
High Court grants bail to Hongkonger who attempted to flee to Taiwan pending sentencing appeal
Cheng Tsz-ho, one of 12 Hongkongers who was captured by the mainland Chinese coastguard while attempting to flee from the city to Taiwan, has been granted bail by the High Court. Cheng, who was ...
Home price trends in Taiwan
This table shows the change in house prices during a single quarter, adjusted for inflation. Adjusting house price rises (or declines) for inflation produces a more accurate picture of the change in ...
Russian plans to build their own chips stalled
We can design them but no one will make them for us Tsar Putin’s plan to churn out computer chips so that Russia can stick two fingers up at leading Western CPU makers such as AMD and Intel have ...
Soft landing possible for housing
“The property market might need more time to assimilate the previous ... Research organizations have said that Taiwan’s inflation rate is expected be below target for next year, thanks to tax cuts on ...
The World’s Most Important Product and the Only Two Companies That Can Make It
All of the chips that go into the world’s most advanced computers are made by a single company and it cannot produce these advanced chips without a stunningly complex machine that only one other ...
Strong earthquake shakes Taiwan
A strong 5.9 magnitude earthquake jolted Taiwan on Thursday. According to the United States Geological Survey (USGS), the earthquake struck the island nation about 27 kilometers (16.7 miles) off the ...
Soft landing possible for housing in Taiwan
The local housing market might experience a soft landing in the first half of next year, after months of declining transactions caused by unfavorable policy measures and economic changes, central bank ...
TPP urges government to address growing inflation
The Taiwan People’s Party (TPP) caucus yesterday urged the government to pass its budget soon and observe fiscal discipline in helping Taiwanese weather inflation woes. Calling “inflation” the word of ...