Institute of Revolutionary Practice yesterday resumed its training sessions after a 20-year hiatus, with institute director Lo Chih-chiang (羅智強) saying the party should do more to connect with young ... ( read original story ...)
Taiwan lures bankers, skilled workers looking to escape a tense Hong Kong
Hours after the Hong Kong's new security law came into effect Tuesday, Taiwan opened an office dedicated to making migration easier for residents and companies. ( read original story ...)
Virus Outbreak: Australian house prices face significant risk as government subsidies expire
Australia house prices fell the most in 16 months last month and face “significant” downside risk as mortgage holidays and government wage subsidies expire in coming months. Property values in major ... ( read original story ...)
Taiwan Courts Hong Kong Bankers Spooked by China’s Security Law
Taiwan is ramping up efforts to lure bankers and other skilled workers who want to escape China’s tightening grip on Hong Kong. ( read original story ...)
IMF Sees Asia’s Pain Persisting; Fauci Warns: Virus Update
Asia’s loss of economic output due to the deadly coronavirus will likely persist until 2022, according to the International Monetary Fund. Anthony Fauci, the U.S. government’s top infectious disease ... ( read original story ...)
Bolton’s book, actions do not match
US president Barack Obama’s director of national intelligence, James Clapper, told the US Senate Intelligence Committee that, considering both its capabilities and intent, communist China presented ... ( read original story ...)
China’s top memory chipmaker to unveil first-ever storage products
Yangtze Memory Technologies, China's top memory chipmaker, will roll out its first-ever storage products lineup in the second half of the year, the company said Saturday, adding that the items will be ... ( read original story ...)
How to Make Government Trustworthy Again
Why have some Asian countries controlled their outbreaks so well? It's because authorities have earned their citizens' confidence. ( read original story ...)
Taiwan’s house prices continue to rise, but demand is now falling
House prices up by 2.7% y-o-y in Q1 2020. Nationwide house prices rose by 2.7% in Q1 2020 from a year earlier, following a y-o-y decline of 1.13% in Q4 2019 and annual rises of 2. ( read original story ...)
Civic group to buy 228 victim Tang Te-chang’s house
The Tainan Cultural Heritage Protection Association has raised more than NT$20 million (US$671,998) from about 8,000 donors to purchase the former residence of 228 Incident victim Tang Te-chang (湯德章) ... ( read original story ...)
Engineers Found Guilty of Stealing Micron Secrets for China
A Taiwanese court ruled Friday that current and former engineers from United Microelectronics Corp. stole trade secrets from U.S. chipmaker Micron Technology Inc. and shared them with a ... ( read original story ...)
Could Donald Trump’s War Against Huawei Trigger a Real War With China?
As relations between the United States and China worsen over the months ahead, could Beijing decide to try to make Taiwan the solution to its advanced semiconductor problem? ( read original story ...)
SoftBank-backed Arm’s spat with China unit over CEO heats up
TAIPEI -- Tensions between Softbank-owned Arm Limited and its Chinese unit escalated ... Arm Limited is a crucial player in the global chip industry, providing intellectual property used in 90% of the ... ( read original story ...)
Protester who fled to Taiwan: ‘Tell my family I’m sorry for the trouble I’ve caused. I will never return to Hong Kong’
Jack Chan left Hong Kong when police started looking for him over his involvement in a serious offence during the protests. ( read original story ...)
SoftBank’s Arm fires China head but unit says otherwise
TOKYO/TAIPEI -- SoftBank Group-owned U.K. chip designer Arm and its Chinese joint venture ... Arm is viewed as one of the world's most important chip design blueprint providers as its intellectual ... ( read original story ...)
Hedge Fund Manager Who Nailed 2015 China Crash Is Hoarding Cash
The Hong Kong arm of China’s biggest asset manager is amassing cash and building up short positions in a bet that the U.S.-China power games will escalate ahead of the American election later this ... ( read original story ...)