GENEVA (Reuters) - Taiwan has launched a demand for compensation for U.S. safeguard tariffs on solar panels, opening a 30-day window for negotiations, a World Trade Organization filing showed on Tuesday. Taiwan said that as an exporter with a substantial ... ( read original story ...)
Tainan blazes trail in making English Taiwan’s 2nd official language
launched the project, the city has been put under the spotlight after now Premier Lai recently directed Taiwan's Ministry of Education in October to examine the feasibility of expanding the city's policy nationwide. Liu Shih-chung (劉世忠), who until ... ( read original story ...)
Google has completed its acquisition of HTC’s smartphone business, which cost more than $1 billion
Google has announced it completed the acquisition process of Taiwanese device maker HTC; or at least its smartphone division. The deal, valued at $1.1 billion (£785 million), will see some 2,000 HTC engineers join the ranks of the search giant. ( read original story ...)
The Pixel 3 phones will be designed and engineered in Taiwan
Secondly, it gives Google a vast new engineering base in Taipei, Taiwan, where HTC is located. A crucial element of the acquisition is the power it will give Google to design its own consumer hardware as well as high-end, special objective chips. ( read original story ...)
FPC Announces New Integrations With Japanese and Taiwanese OEMs
New smartphones from major Japan- and Taiwan-based OEMs feature Fingerprint Cards fingerprint sensors, the company has announced. FPC hasn’t revealed the names of these clients, but indicated that the integrations include its FPC1035 and FPC1272 sensor ... ( read original story ...)
Google closes HTC deal, welcomes smartphone innovators
Neither and both happened. September last year, Google and HTC announced a $1.1 billion deal that, among other things, would see a large chunk of the Taiwanese smartphone maker’s mobile team transfer to the mothership. Google has now announced that deal ... ( read original story ...)
Chunghwa Telecom Reports 2018 Guidance
TAIPEI, Taiwan, Jan. 30, 2018 /PRNewswire/ Chunghwa Telecom Co., Ltd. (TAIEX: 2412, NYSE: CHT) ("Chunghwa" or "the Company") today reported its guidance for 2018 on a consolidated basis. All figures were prepared in accordance with Taiwan-International ... ( read original story ...)
Google has completed its acquisition of HTC’s smartphone business, which cost more than $1 billion (GOOG, HTCXF)
In addition to a team that has already worked on the two Pixel smartphones (which were outsourced to HTC), Google is also gaining a big facility in Taipei, Taiwan, which marks its biggest new headquarters in South-East Asia and establishes a noteworthy ... ( read original story ...)
Chinese flights scrapped in Taiwan row
These are external links and will open in a new window Two Chinese airlines have scrapped flights between China and Taiwan, amid a row between Beijing and Taipei over access to air routes. China Eastern and Xiamen Airlines had planned an extra 176 round ... ( read original story ...)
Taiwan activist Li Ming-che’s wife stopped from flying to China to visit husband: rights groups
TAIPEI (Reuters) - The wife of Taiwan activist Li Ming-che, sentenced to five years in prison by Chinese authorities for subverting state power, was stopped from flying from Taiwan to China on Tuesday to visit him in prison, rights groups said. Li Ming-che ... ( read original story ...)
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TAIPEI Qualcomm Inc will pay T$390 million ($13.35 million), its first installment of a fine for anti-trust violations in Taiwan, the Taiwan Fair Trade Commission said on Tuesday, as the U.S. chipmaker grapples with issues around its business model. ( read original story ...)
Taiwan Retaliates Against Chinese Airlines, Hampering Lunar New Year Travel
TAIPEI, Taiwan — Tens of thousands of Taiwanese working in China are at risk of being unable to return home for the Lunar New Year in mid-February as a result of an escalating battle over airspace in the Taiwan Strait. On Tuesday, the Chinese carriers ... ( read original story ...)
China Eastern Cancels Holiday Flights Amid Dispute With Taiwan
China Eastern Airlines Corp. and Xiamen Airlines Co. canceled 176 additional flights to Taiwan after failing to gain approval from the island’s authorities amid an escalating dispute between the two governments. The flights are a newest sticking point ... ( read original story ...)
China Eastern, Xiamen Airlines cancel Taiwan flights amid routes row
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China Eastern Airlines and Xiamen Airlines said on Tuesday they had canceled 176 round-trip flights to Taiwan that had been added to their schedules to meet demand over the Lunar New Year, amid a row between Beijing and Taiwan over ... ( read original story ...)
Qualcomm to make first payment for violating competition law in Taiwan
TAIPEI (Reuters) - Qualcomm Inc will pay T$390 million ($13.35 million), its first installment of a fine for anti-trust violations in Taiwan, the Taiwan Fair Trade ... and refused to license its technology to other industry players. Qualcomm’s fine ... ( read original story ...)
New US$1.1 billion Taipei hotel looks to offer buzz to beat the lure of Airbnb
A new US$1.1 billion hotel to be built in Taiwan’s capital Taipei will put the focus on user experience as it looks to deal with the growing threat to the traditional hospitality industry from private home rentals by Airbnb and similar platforms ... ( read original story ...)