Receipt of Complete Response Letter from the FDA for Oral Paclitaxel Plus EncequidarKlisyri® (tirbanibulin) received FDA approval and launched commercially on February 18, 2021The New England Journal ... ( read original story ...)
Can the United States Prevent a War over Taiwan?
Taiwan is becoming the most dangerous flashpoint in the world. Events in and involving the small democracy could spark a war that draws in the United ... ( read original story ...)
Taiwan drive to plug global chip shortage
TAIPEI: Taiwan’s drive to plug a global shortage of microchips has hit a snag - a lack of water for its foundries caused by a drought. Taiwanese high-tech chip foundries are some of the world’s ... ( read original story ...)
Richard D. Fisher, Jr. On Taiwan: It’s simple: Either we arm Taiwan or die trying
When Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Xi Jinping (習近平) wakes up one morning and decides that his People’s Liberation Army (PLA) can win a war to conquer Taiwan, that is when his war will begin. To ... ( read original story ...)
Notes from central Taiwan: Some ‘damn foolish thing’ in the Senkakus
The ante was upped this month in the uninhabited islands by Beijing and Tokyo. Otto von Bismarck once famously remarked that the “great European war will come out of some damn foolish thing in the ... ( read original story ...)
Aborigines target of China’s ‘united front’: legislators
Lawmakers have called on the National Security Bureau to investigate claims of pervasive Chinese influence among Aboriginal communities. Legislators pointed to a surge in communist propaganda and ... ( read original story ...)
Women rising on Wall St, but still a long way to go
Pin-up photographs and smutty jokes have long been commonplace on trading floors, but the finance world is gradually opening up to women — underlined by the arrival today of Jane Fraser at the head of ... ( read original story ...)
Merkel is leaving, Macron is flailing, but the EU has a new heavyweight in Mario Draghi
One thing European leaders always knew about Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi was he would never lose his cool. When European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker gathered senior policymakers ... ( read original story ...)
Robinhood plans confidential IPO filing as soon as March – Bloomberg News
Online brokerage Robinhood, at the centre of this year’s retail trading frenzy, is planning to file confidentially for an initial public offering as soon as March, Bloomberg News reported late on ... ( read original story ...)
SoftBank says deal reached with WeWork founder, directors
SoftBank Group Corp. has reached a settlement in a U.S. legal dispute with directors of office space-sharing venture WeWork Inc. and its founder Adam Neumann, the Japanese technology company said ... ( read original story ...)
China’s Ant to boost consumer finance unit capital as it restructures micro-lending: sources
China's Ant Group is in talks with other shareholders in its new consumer finance unit to bolster the firm's capital as the fintech giant prepares to fold in its lucrative micro-lending businesses, ... ( read original story ...)
Taiwan Loan House: CTBC Bank
CTBC Bank did not miss a beat in the Taiwanese loan market in 2020, cementing its leading position with senior roles on deals from acquisition financings to wind farm projects. It added to its ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s territorial disputes: China, South Korea, Russia and more
The one with Beijing involving the Diaoyu Islands is viewed as the most volatile, while analysts see little likelihood of progress with Moscow over the Kuril Islands. ( read original story ...)
Airbnb reports huge loss in first time out as public company
Home-sharing site Airbnb posted a $3.9 billion loss in the fourth quarter of 2020 as it suffered from the pandemic downturn in travel and recorded one-time costs for becoming a public company. In ... ( read original story ...)
Applied Optoelectronics Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2020 Results
Applied Optoelectronics, Inc. (NASDAQ: AAOI), a leading provider of fiber-optic access network products for the internet datacenter, cable broadband, telecom and fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) markets, ... ( read original story ...)
Asia markets track Wall St record after Powell’s soothing words
Expectations the global economy will rocket have helped equities surge in recent weeksFed boss Jerome Powell for a second day reiterated ... ( read original story ...)