Aslan Pharma Completes Auction Phase of $30 Million Taiwan IPO

Aslan Pharma of Singapore completed the competitive auction part of its Taiwan IPO, selling 10.4 million shares at a weighted average bid of NT$68.92 ($2.29). The company will now start a five-day public subscription offering of 2.6 million additional ... ( read original story ...)

Could you already be a multimillionaire? Check your receipts

TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Could you be sitting on unclaimed prize money from store receipts? Better hurry up and check. According to the Finance Ministry, 17 prizes from receipts ranging from NT$2 to $10 million for purchases made between the January 1 and ... ( read original story ...)

Taiwan stocks fall in line with overseas markets

Among actively traded shares, display maker Innolux was off 1.5 percent, while financial group CTBC Financial Holding was down 0.5 percent. The Taiwan dollar softened T$0.001 to T$30.116 per U.S. dollar. ( read original story ...)

Taiwan stocks fall; TSMC down on profit taking

TAIPEI, May 16 Taiwan stocks fell on Tuesday ... The electronics subindex sank 0.6 percent, while the financials subindex was unchanged. Shares of TSMC, the world's largest contract chipmaker, were off 1.2 percent, as investors continued to book profits ... ( read original story ...)

WannaCry ransomware hits schools in Taiwan

There had been no incidents of ransomware infection involving government agencies, including the Taipei City government and the Ministry of Finance. The threat posed by WanaCrypt0r 2.0 came to worldwide attention last Friday when over a dozen hospitals in ... ( read original story ...)

Taiwan stocks trade above 10,000 mark amid cyberattack concerns

No major hiccup was reported from market participants in Taiwan with financial regulators, at a regular parliamentary session, saying no abnormalities had been detected. "In March, Microsoft released a patch. At that time, the central bank immediately ... ( read original story ...)

Aslan kicks off IPO on Taipei Exchange with public auction

TAIPEI, Taiwan – Aslan Pharmaceuticals Pte. Ltd., a Singapore-based company focused on the development of treatments for prevalent tumor types in Asia, is conducting a competitive auction and public offer of common shares for its initial listing on the ... ( read original story ...)

CRN Channel News

Aftershocks from the earthquake that hit Taiwan last week will be felt around the world as the flow of components and peripherals out of the region gets disrupted. The CRN Test Center compares the larger-screened models of the flagship smartphones from ... ( read original story ...)

Start@SG

Dr Carl Firth, the company's chief executive, said: "Taiwan has a strong biotech public market, and investors are knowledgeable, experienced and have strong interest in this industry." Aslan raised US$23 million (S$32.3 million) in a pre-IPO funding round ... ( read original story ...)

Toshiba tells Western Digital to back down on chip-unit sale

Such a sale could eventually allow the chip unit – which Toshiba values at at least ¥2-trillion ($24-billion)– to aim for an IPO and keep the technology ... Other suitors are Taiwan-based Foxconn, U.S. chip maker Broadcom Ltd., which has partnered ... ( read original story ...)