The Canadian and Taiwanese authorities have granted the technology services company Lleida.net (BME: LLN) (OTCQX: LLEIF) (EPA: ALLLN) three new patents, bringing its intellectual property portfolio to ... ( read original story ...)
Notes from central Taiwan: Everyday life as the ‘other’
A few months ago my girlfriend, a Filipino factory worker here in Taiwan, presents me with a key. They had changed the locks on her dorm and she needs to make a copy. We run down to the old guy who ... ( read original story ...)
Group again calls for removal of Chiang statue
The Taiwan 228 Incident Care Association on Monday last week again called for the removal of the Chiang Kai-shek (蔣介石) statue from the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall in Taipei. The call came after ... ( read original story ...)
Geely says to make EVs for Faraday Future with Foxconn
China's Zhejiang Geely Holding Group said on Friday it and Foxconn are in talks to provide contract manufacturing services to electric vehicle maker Faraday Future. ( read original story ...)
Medeon Announces Positive Clinical Results for XFLO Minimally Invasive BPH Treatment Device
Medeon Biodesign, Inc. (TPEx: 6499), a Taiwan publicly traded medical device company, is pleased to announce positive interim results of the EXPANDER-1 Clinical Study for its flagship product the ... ( read original story ...)
Xi’s cynical warning against a new US-China ‘cold war’
The man whose mendacity unleashed a deadly pandemic on the world has a complaint to make: The West, in pushing back on Xi Jinping’s aggression, risks starting “a new cold war.” And the Chinese ... ( read original story ...)
Biden administration warns China over Taiwan, as US carrier enters South China Sea
Just a week after his inauguration, Biden’s administration is already signalling that it will escalate Trump’s confrontation with Beijing. ( read original story ...)
Coexistence or Cold War with China?
We ceased to be obligated to go to war to defend Taiwan. Fast-forward four decades to the first weekend of President Joe Biden's administration. Saturday, China sent eight nuclear-capable bombers and ... ( read original story ...)
Medigen Vaccine Biologics COVID-19 Vaccine Adjuvanted with Dynavax’s CpG 1018 Announces First Participant Dosed in Phase 2 Clinical Trial in Taiwan
P antigen adjuvanted with CpG 1018 supplied by Dynavax. MVC's Phase 2 clinical trial is a randomized, double-blinded, multi-center clinical trial, expecting to enroll 3,700 healthy subjects, 20 years ... ( read original story ...)
Start-up brings unicorns to masses
Why should only the wealthy get to ride unicorns to further riches? Privately held firms with at least US$1 billion in value come with daunting price tags that freeze out ordinary investors. Banks ... ( read original story ...)
Taiwan stages defence drill against potential attack from China
Taiwanese troops using tanks, mortars and small arms staged a drill today aimed at repelling an attack from China, which has increased its threats to reclaim the island and its own displays of ... ( read original story ...)
Taiwan’s Institutional Resilience
Taiwan's companies derive over 70% of revenues from abroad. The pandemic has accelerated some long-term themes that have benefitted Taiwan, and that we expect to continue. By Alistair MacDonald, ... ( read original story ...)
Patent examination pilot programme for start-ups takes effect
The Taiwan Intellectual Property Office recently announced a patent examination pilot programme for start-ups, effective 1. Under the programme, start-ups with research and development capabilities ... ( read original story ...)
Biden should expand contact between US and Taiwanese officials
Removing restrictions on American contact with Taiwan sends a diplomatic message that the U.S. will not bow to China. ( read original story ...)
Trump’s parting shot to Xi should be recognizing Taiwan
President Trump’s two greatest foreign-policy accomplishments both involve departures from outmoded paradigms that had, for decades, enraptured bipartisan neoliberal elites: unprecedented ... ( read original story ...)
One imported case reported; tighter rules clarified
Taiwan yesterday recorded one new imported case of COVID-19 involving an Indonesian who arrived in the nation last month to work on a fishing boat, the Central Epidemic Command Center said. The ... ( read original story ...)