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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 ...)

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 ...)

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 ...)

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 ...)

AXA announced today its intention to IPO a minority stake in AXA America Holdings Inc ... For Australia, New Zealand, Taiwan and South Korea only: Fitch Australia Pty Ltd holds an Australian financial services license (AFS license no. 337123) which ... ( read original story ...)

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 ...)

Cathay Fortune, a Shanghai PE firm, will pay $186 million to acquire Berlin's Epigenomics and its blood plasma colorectal cancer test; Singapore's Aslan Pharma will conduct a Taiwan IPO in May and begin trading in June; EpimAb of Shanghai closed a $25 ... ( read original story ...)

12:26AM ET - Reuters India's SBI Life set to hire eight banks for up to $1 bln IPO - IFR 12:08AM ET - Reuters ANALYSIS-China, India plans for electric cars threaten to cut gasoline demand 11:45PM ET - Reuters Taiwan to continue buying arms from United ... ( read original story ...)

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 ...)

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 ...)

Four months ago, the company's 167 million initial public offering (IPO) that valued it about $1 billion ... Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Malaysia, China, Japan, Hong Kong and Myanmar. The carrier managed to catch the attention of passengers and ... ( read original story ...)

The financial subindex slid 0.18 percent ... Net profit came in at T$28.2 billion. The Taiwan dollar firmed T$0.022 to stand at T$30.193 to the U.S. dollar. (Reporting by Jess Macy Yu; Editing by Subhranshu Sahu) ( read original story ...)

Taipei, May 9 (CNA) The average national debt shouldered by each citizen in Taiwan remained flat for a third consecutive month at the end of April, according to the latest statistics released by the Ministry of Finance. The national per capita debt at the ... ( read original story ...)

Chu said the inflows aren't broad-based into Asia, so Taiwan shares would be vunerable to short-term profit taking, depending on the global situation. The electronics subindex rose 0.6 percent, while the financials subindex lost 0.2 percent. The Taiwan ... ( read original story ...)

Taipei, May 8 (CNA) Taiwan reported on Monday that exports for April grew year-on-year for the seventh consecutive month, on the back of strong global demand at a time when the global economy is recovering. According to the Ministry of Finance (MOF ... ( read original story ...)

Taiwan's exports grew for a seventh straight month in April ... largely supported by gains in semiconductor shipments, the Ministry of Finance said Monday. Economists polled by The Wall Street Journal had expected an expansion of 10.0%. ( read original story ...)