China’s military sent planes towards Taiwan on 25 of the 31 days of October, the highest frequency of the antagonistic sorties all year, a Taiwanese monitoring group has said. The report comes as the ... ( read original story ...)
CTBC Becomes First in Taiwan to Join PCAF – a Global Carbon Accounting Partnership
CTBC Holding, a Taipei-based holding company specializing in banking, securities, insurance, venture capital, and asset management, has officially signed on to the Partnership for Carbon Accounting ... ( read original story ...)
King Steel launches world’s first dual-color, dual-property rubber injection molding machine
The world’s first dual-color rubber injection molding machine, developed by shoe-making machine giant King Steel Machinery Co, has just hit the market. The new machine boasts a number of exclusive ... ( read original story ...)
Smartphone, semiconductor shipments to grow 12% in 2021
Global semiconductor and smartphone shipments are projected to grow 12 percent while server system and networking communication device shipments will increase 4 percent year-on-year in 2021, according ... ( read original story ...)
Taiwan GaAs supply chain, IDMs gearing up for Wi-Fi 6 boom
The Wi-Fi 6 penetration rate is likely to advance to 50-60% in 2021 with the latest wireless communication standard increasingly adopted for handsets, routers and notebooks, prompting Taiwan's IC ... ( read original story ...)
US-China rivalry set to persist whoever wins the White House
Whoever emerges the winner of the November 3 election, the US is set to retain a tough approach to China. In April 2017, US President Donald Trump entertained his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping at Mar ... ( read original story ...)
Saudi Arabia’s ‘digital authoritarianism’ squashes critics active on social media
Former Saudi Arabian deputy minister of finance Abdulaziz al-Dukhail went missing in April ... Final decision will be at the discretion of the Taipei Times. ( read original story ...)
Taiwan Stock Market Tipped To Extend Losing Streak
Disclaimer | Commerce Policy | Made In NYC | Stock quotes by finanzen.net (RTTNews) - The Taiwan stock market has moved lower in four straight sessions, sliding more than 350 points or 3 percent ... ( read original story ...)
‘Probe killing thoroughly’
Authorities in Taiwan should conduct a thorough and transparent investigation into the murder of Malaysian student Irene Chung, says her family’s lawyer. ( read original story ...)
TaiGen Announces FDA Approval of IND for Its Flu Antiviral TG-1000
TaiGen Biotechnology Company, Limited ("TaiGen") (Taiwan: 4157) announced today that U.S. Food and Drug Administration ("FDA") has approved the Investigation New Drug (IND) application for TG-1000, a ... ( read original story ...)
Women Are Leading Taiwan’s Public Relations War Against China
In the battle for public opinion between China and Taiwan, Beijing has many advantages over its neighbor: the ability to leverage the world’s second-largest economy, an influential diplomatic corps ... ( read original story ...)
INTERVIEW: Pandemic draws Taiwan, Czech Republic closer
Taipei and Prague have grown closer due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the political situation regarding China, Czech Senator Jiri Drahos said in an interview as he reflected on his 30 years of contact ... ( read original story ...)
Virus Outbreak: Netherlands halts KLM bailout over pilots’ baulking
The Dutch government is to halt its multibillion-euro COVID-19 bailout to national carrier KLM amid a standoff with a pilots’ union about terms of the rescue package, Dutch Minister of Finance Wopke ... ( read original story ...)
EDITORIAL: Resolving housing inequality
As global central banks embark on aggressive monetary easing to revive economies hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, the low interest rates and ample liquidity have lifted housing prices and transaction ... ( read original story ...)
Ian Easton On Taiwan: Think China’s aggression is alarming now? Just wait
Ian Easton is Senior Director at the Project 2049 Institute and author ... Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Taipei City Councilor Hsu Chiao-hsin (徐巧芯 ... ( read original story ...)
Chinese mainland contributes to improving cross-Straits relations: Taiwan businesspeople
Compared with the passive Taiwan authorities, the Chinese mainland has actively introduced a variety of preferential policies to support cross-Straits communication, which has injected tremendous ... ( read original story ...)