If Hong Kong ends up being just another Chinese megacity it will lose its role as a leading financial center. Alexander Görlach looks at whether Taiwan or Singapore could serve as alternatives. ( read original story ...)
France orders technology giants to pay digital tax
The French Ministry of Finance on Wednesday said it has sent out notices to big tech companies liable for its digital service tax to pay the levy as planned next month. Paris suspended collection of ... ( read original story ...)
Pedestrians shocked at pony taking a stroll in New Taipei
New Taipei City citizens walking down the street on Thursday were met with a funny scene when a scooter-rider decided to take his pet pony out for a stroll. ( read original story ...)
Taiwan is crucial to the global fight against cyber crime
According to World Health Organization statistics, as of September 30, 2020, there were more than 33.2 million co ... ( read original story ...)
China Warns U.S. As Taiwan Makes Overtures to Biden Cabinet
Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen has met both Antony Blinken and Jake Sullivan in person, with the foreign policy veterans set to become Joe Biden's secretary of state and national security adviser. ( read original story ...)
Exclusive: Foxconn to shift some Apple production to Vietnam to minimise China risk
Foxconn is moving some iPad and MacBook assembly to Vietnam from China at the request of Apple Inc, said a person with knowledge of the plan, as the U.S. firm diversifies production to minimise the ... ( read original story ...)
Taiwan III-V supply chain gearing up for GaN power, RF modules
V semiconductor supply chain players are gearing up to deepen deployments in the segment of GaN-based power components and RF modules increasingly applied to 5G handsets and other consumer electronics ... ( read original story ...)
Lite-On Tech installing smart streetlamps in cooperation with FET
On Technology is installing in a northern Taiwanese city IoT-based LED streetlamps replacing about 160,000 conventional ones through technological cooperation with Far EasTone Telecommunications. ( read original story ...)
Taiwan exports to China on the rise
Despite the growing disquiet in Taipei against Beijing Chinese technology companies have increased orders for computer chips or semiconductors made in Taiwan ... ( read original story ...)
Why Taiwan Killed a TV News Broadcasting License Despite Legal Freedom of Speech
Taiwan has revoked a television broadcasting license for a cable news channel because the openly pro-China outlet had aired inaccurate reports and ignored warnings to reform, a regulatory body said in ... ( read original story ...)
Despite tensions, China buying computer chips made by Taiwan firms
Despite the growing disquiet in Taipei against Beijing Chinese technology companies have increased orders for computer chips or semiconductors made in Taiwan ... ( read original story ...)
Devil horns meet sutras in Taiwan’s Buddhist death metal band
The gig began with a nun chanting on stage but suddenly erupted into a wall of noise unleashed by distorted guitars and screamed sutras -- the unique sound of Taiwan's first Buddhist death metal band. ( read original story ...)
Taiwan Is Finally Set To Build The New Diesel-Electric Submarines It Desperately Needs
Eight new domestically-built submarines will revamp the country’s antique underwater fleet as the Chinese threat grows. ( read original story ...)
Chinese steel manufacturer Huadi International sets terms for $25 million US IPO
Huadi International Group, which manufactures steel pipe and tube products in China, announced terms for its US IPO on Wednesday. The Wenzhou, China-based company plans to raise $25 million by ... ( read original story ...)
Taiwan backend supply chain poised to embrace 5G AiP segment
G mmWave AiP (antenna in package) modules are on track to gain increasing penetration in handsets and other devices after being incorporated into iPhone 12 series, and FC-AiP technology is expected to ... ( read original story ...)
SK Telecom Co unveils AI chip
South Korea is to add a new artificial intelligence (AI) chip to its arsenal of semiconductors as the nation seeks a bigger slice of the global technology market and an upgrade of its industrial ... ( read original story ...)