It plans to catch up to TSMC in the process race by 2024. However, Intel faces a brutal uphill battle and will need significant government subsidies to outspend TSMC. Over the past several years, ... ( read original story ...)
Report suggests no end to house hoarding rush
The number of unoccupied houses nationwide totaled 876,000 units last year, or 11.94 percent of all houses, the Ministry of the Interior said in a report issued on Thursday. Almost 30 percent of empty ... ( read original story ...)
Asia shares extend losses due to China crackdowns
Asian shares fell on Friday, extending their biggest monthly drop since the height of global COVID-19 lockdowns in March last year due to lingering investor concern over regulatory crackdowns in China ... ( read original story ...)
Taiwan approves TSMC’s plan to expand in Nanjing
The Investment Commission has approved a plan by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC, 台積電), the world’s largest contract chipmaker, to expand production at its plant in Nanjing, China. The ... ( read original story ...)
Northern Taiwan property sales decrease 14 percent
The presale and new housing market in northern Taiwan shrank 14 percent in the second quarter from three months earlier to NT$228.55 billion (US$8.19 billion), as a local COVID-19 outbreak and ... ( read original story ...)
Roundup: Tokyo stocks close lower on concerns over COVID-19 surge
Tokyo stocks closed lower Thursday as worries grew about a rapid increase in COVID-19 cases a day after Tokyo reported over 1,000 new ... ( read original story ...)
Vaughan talks about Covid-19 protocols in the UK
Former England skipper Michael Vaughan on Thursday said he fears for the upcoming Hundred and the Test series against India unless the Covid-19 isolation rules ... ( read original story ...)
Himax Sponsors tinyML Vision Challenge to Foster tinyML Vision Development
Himax Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: HIMX) (“Himax” or “Company”), a leading supplier and fabless manufacturer of display drivers and other semiconductor products, today announced that it sponsored ... ( read original story ...)
NZ CPI and BoJ decision due on Friday
Asia trades mixed after a similar session on Wall St.; China markets rise following data and MLF; UST yields decline amid Powell comments; NZ CPI and BoJ decision due on Fri. - Commodity currencies ... ( read original story ...)
Property investment remains risky
The introduction of the actual-price registration system for all property transactions nationwide and the “Joint Property Tax System 2.0,” effective from this month, together with the COVID-19 ... ( read original story ...)
Building boom widens divide in Tibet
Under towering mountains, cranes and newly built blocks of apartments stretch up to blue skies around the Tibetan capital, Lhasa, as a construction boom creates a two-tier system of property wealth ... ( read original story ...)
Notes from central Taiwan: Taiwan’s cancer of impunity
The broken authoritarianism of the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) planted many cancers in the body of Taiwan’s emerging democracy. Few have done as much harm at the local level as the impunity of ... ( read original story ...)
International wills – family dynamics are part of the process
A further complication was the family dynamic; the late father had been married twice with seven sons, and had a further two sons from another relationship, creating a myriad of obstacles! Talks about ... ( read original story ...)
CCP cracking down on ‘lying flat’
The phrase “lying flat” has become popular among young Chinese. Rather than toil away at a job that offers limited possibilities for promotion or prosperity, it is better to take it easy and live a ... ( read original story ...)
11 suspects behind assassination of Haitian President arrested within Taiwan’s embassy
President of Haiti have been arrested in the island's Taiwanese embassy, Taiwan's Foreign Ministry stated on June 9. According to The Wall Street Journal, the suspects had entered the embassy's ... ( read original story ...)
InterContinental Hotels to launch a Kaohsiung property
InterContinental Hotels Group PLC (IHG) is to launch a new luxury property, InterContinental Kaohsiung, in the fourth quarter, unfazed by a business freeze in the local hospitality industry amid a ... ( read original story ...)