They handed out the New Zealand CIO Awards in Auckland’s Civic Theatre last week. For those of us locked down in the northern hemisphere, the photos come from a glittering world. There are 650 people ... ( read original story ...)
Taiwan’s GlobalWafers in talks to buy German peer for $4.5bn
TAIPEI -- Taiwan's GlobalWafers, the world's third-largest maker of semiconductor wafers, said on Monday that it is in final talks to acquire German peer Siltronic AG, in a bid to expand its market ... ( read original story ...)
Open House Taipei – Open TDRI
PRNewswire/ -- Taiwan Design Center (TDC) was upgraded to Taiwan Design Research Institute (TDRI) in 2020. Not only has it gone through transformation ... ( read original story ...)
Taiwan Top Choice in Asia for Post-Pandemic Travel
The Asia Super Team competition, organized by "Taiwan's Bureau of Foreign Trade", "Ministry of Economic Affairs" and executed by "Taiwan External Trade Development Council", promotes incentive travel ... ( read original story ...)
Lam Wing-kee: ‘If they can take Hong Kong back, the next place I feel is Taiwan’
Bookseller who fled Hong Kong for Taiwan speaks of the danger the island faces and the ordeal of his detention in China ... ( read original story ...)
Interview: Internet prodigy talks privacy
I sat down this week for a chat with Taiwan Internet stalwart T. H. Schee (徐子涵, @scheeinfo on Twitter). Schee’s career for the last two decades has been focused on Internet and public policy in Taiwan ... ( read original story ...)
Anger grows at Hong Kong’s erratic COVID-19 rules as cases mount
As Hong Kong battles a new wave of COVID-19 infections with yet another round of social restrictions, a sense of fatigue with the confusing and inconsistent nature of the territory’s pandemic response ... ( read original story ...)
DPP to hold national security seminars in Taipei, Taichung, Tainan and Kaohsiung
The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has planned a series of seminars for next month in four special municipalities on bolstering Taiwan’s national security, a party official said yesterday. The ... ( read original story ...)
Taiwan lawmakers throw pig guts in protest over meat imports
Lawmakers in Taiwan threw pig intestines and punches at each other as a brawl broke out in parliament over a proposal to ease restrictions on pork imports from the United States. ( read original story ...)
How this Taipei City nightclub is breaking barriers, one party at a time
People with autism now have a cool place to hang out in Taipei City in Taiwan, as the nightclub Chess Taipei has started hosting events for them. For one party, guests were given masks and guided by ... ( read original story ...)
Chinese media’s threats to draw Taipei rebuff: source
The government is implementing measures to respond to state-owned Chinese media’s threats against Taiwanese independence advocates, a national security official said on Friday. The Chinese-language Ta ... ( read original story ...)
Taiwan lawmakers throw punches in parliament
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Encrypted apps and false names: new Taiwan book club takes no chances
Amid Beijing’s crackdown on Hong Kong, publisher says joining clubs to discuss free speech and democracy has again become an act of resistance ... ( read original story ...)
Pig intestines fly as Taiwan lawmakers engage in ham-fisted political attacks
Parliament is known as the place where the sausage is made, but Friday’s antics took the process to a whole new level. ( read original story ...)
Taiwan Raises GDP Forecast on Better-Than-Expected Exports
Taiwan raised its forecast for growth this year as stronger-than-expected international demand for technology products shielded the economy from the global slowdown fueled by Covid-19. ( read original story ...)
Stovetops major cause of Taipei fires
In Taipei, 32 of the 135 electrical fires that occurred over the past three years were caused by ceramic stovetops, the Taipei Fire Department said as it urged the public to keep their stoves clean ... ( read original story ...)