EXCLUSIVE: In a competitive situation, Will Yun Lee and Mark and Christine Holder’s Seoul Street has acquired rights to Silver Phoenix author Cindy Pon’s bestselling sci-fi novels Want and ... ( read original story ...)
Intel plans US$20 bil ‘megasite’ in chip race with TSMC, Samsung
Intel announced Friday an investment of more than US$20 billion to build two new chip plants in the US state of Ohio as competition heats up with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co and Samsung ... ( read original story ...)
EDITORIAL: KMT’s terminology erodes trust
At a democracy forum in Taipei on Sunday last week hosted by the Taiwan Forever Association legal reform group, Transitional Justice Commission Deputy Chairman Sun Pin (孫斌) said that failure to ... ( read original story ...)
AI is not an inventor, Taiwan’s IPC Court rules
Tony TY Chang of Saint Island International Patent & Law Offices reviews the recent decision of the IPC Court concerning the DABUS patent application ... ( read original story ...)
Xi reshapes China property market, paving the way for state dominance
For any government, overhauling a nationwide residential real-estate market would be risky under the best of circumstances. Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) is attempting it at a time when the ... ( read original story ...)
China’s Xi rejects ‘Cold War mentality,’ pushes cooperation
Xi's comments come as tensions continue to simmer with the U.S. over issues ranging from Taiwan to intellectual property theft. ( read original story ...)
Executive Yuan proposes increasing compensation to White Terror victims
The Executive Yuan yesterday unveiled legislation to increase compensations paid to White Terror victims. The bills include a proposed law to return land and assets to victims, as well as several ... ( read original story ...)
Securing Taiwan Requires Immediate Unprecedented Cyber Action
The prospect of a Chinese invasion of Taiwan echoes some of the most disastrous 20th century instances of great power expansion—reminiscent, perhaps, of Nazi Germany’s Anschluss or even its subsequent ... ( read original story ...)
KMT Served Double Defeat in Taiwan’s Latest Recall and By-Election
A recall against independent Freddy Lim fell short, and the KMT’s candidate lost a by-election to fill another seat vacated by a previous recall campaign. ( read original story ...)
Ex-hermit ‘River Dave’ arrested at cabin site
A former hermit in New Hampshire whose cabin in the woods burned down after nearly three decades on the property that he was ordered to leave has been charged with trespassing there once again, ... ( read original story ...)
Taiwan furious as diplomatic property is transferred to Beijing
Ownership of the building that hosted Taiwans embassy in Nicaragua has been given to Beijing prompting Taipeis anger ... ( read original story ...)
Commercial property transactions spike 40.8%
Commercial property transactions last quarter spiked 40.8 percent from three months earlier to NT$46.3 billion (US$1.67 billion), underpinned mainly by demand for industrial properties in northern ... ( read original story ...)
Taiwan Central Bank Split on Using Rates to Rein in Housing Market
Taiwan’s central bank should consider adjusting interest rates to rein in the housing market, Deputy Governor Chen Nan-kuang said, contrasting with earlier comments from Governor Yang Chin-long, who ... ( read original story ...)
Strong quake hits off Taiwan’s eastern coast
A strong earthquake struck off the coast of eastern Taiwan on Monday evening with shaking felt in the capital Taipei, but authorities said there were no immediate reports of widespread damage or ... ( read original story ...)
Home prices in Q3 rise 7.43 percent
Taiwan’s housing prices in the third quarter of last year picked up 7.43 percent from a year earlier, with the increase most evident in Tainan and Taichung, the Ministry of the Interior said yesterday ... ( read original story ...)
Taiwan threatens to sue regime to seize embassy
On Thursday, December 30, the Taiwan government announced that it would “take” international legal action against the nation of ... ( read original story ...)