China will take countermeasures against Raytheon and Lockheed Martin after the two US defense firms acted as the main contractors in the latest US arms sale to the island of Taiwan, the Chinese ... ( read original story ...)
Recognize how real Taiwan is at the Oly end
our government threw Taiwan under the bus and de-recognized it. With its manifest human rights abuses, its increasingly bellicose foreign policy, its complete tolerance of the theft of intellectual ... ( read original story ...)
Warning signs of a property bubble
Real-estate prices have continued to go through the roof, as the property market remains bullish. Statistics released by the Ministry of the Interior showed that 3.15 million properties exchanged ... ( read original story ...)
China’s big picture
Like many other analysts over the past 31 years, I suspected that a property-market collapse might be in the offing. But my clearest memory is of thinking that I had mistaken Beijing with Taipei, the ... ( read original story ...)
Property ladder too high for central Europe’s first-time buyers
TAIPEI (Reuters) - Somaliland has "huge" investment potential in untapped oil and gas reserves, the foreign minister of Somalia's breakaway region told... MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's state RT ... ( read original story ...)
Taiwan GDP growth fastest in decade in 2021 on strong exports
Taiwan's economy grew last year at its fastest pace in more than a decade, driven by strong tech exports during the COVID-19 pandemic to support people working and studying from home, as well as ... ( read original story ...)
Taiwan’s housing market remains buoyant
The housing market slowed in recent years, after dramatic government measures to curb speculative house purchases. Demand continues to rise In the first ten months of 2021, housing transactions in ... ( read original story ...)
Taiwan – FTC Penalized Agoda’s Use Of Competitor’s Name For Keyword Advertising.
The Fair Trade Commission (hereinafter, the “TFTC”) rendered the Gong-Chu-110075 Disposition of November 4, 2021, holding that Agoda’s use of the corporate name of its competitor Easytravel for its ... ( read original story ...)
US revives disused offices as homes
Blocks from the White House, an unassuming edifice in downtown Washington that once held offices used by the US Department of Justice is set to be converted into homes for hundreds of people. The ... ( read original story ...)
Seoul Street Options Cindy Pon’s ‘Want’ & ‘Ruse’ Sci-Fi Novels For Television
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 ...)