The new mayor of Kaohsiung, a city in southern Taiwan, has signaled that he wants to relocate 20,000 people who have suffered decades of air pollution. A little over a month after entering office in a ... ( read original story ...)
The One Smartphone That Can Defeat Apple’s Successful iPhone SE
The iPhone SE was all about matching the performance of the iPhone 11 family at a more competitive price. What now for the SE as the new iPhones arrive? ( read original story ...)
Taiwan-Based Healthtech Company iWEECARE Extends Pre-Series A Funding with $2.4 Mn
WEECARE will utilize the fresh capital to accelerate marketing activities to address the demand for remote patient monitoring technologies in the United States and China ... ( read original story ...)
The One Smartphone That Will Defeat Apple’s iPhone SE
The iPhone SE was all about matching the performance of the iPhone 11 family at a more competitive price. What now for the SE as the new iPhones arrive? ( read original story ...)
Taipei Biennial Announces 2020 Presentations and Public Programs
You and I Don’t Live on the Same Planet, the 12th edition of the biennial, will showcase works by artists from 25 different countries and territories. ( read original story ...)
iWEECARE Extends US$2.4M Pre-Series A Financing to Serve Global Demand for Remote Patient Monitoring
PRNewswire/ -- iWEECARE, the developer of the world's smallest continuous temperature monitoring product, Temp Pal(®), announced that it raised US$2.4 million in extended pre-series A financing. ( read original story ...)
Taiwan IC design houses see demand for smartphones pick up
Taiwan-based IC design houses have seen orders from Android phone vendors start pulling in, and are more upbeat about their sales outlook for the fourth quarter of 2020. ( read original story ...)
Why Facebook Suddenly Closed 155 Accounts Targeting the Philippines
Facebook’s deletion of accounts targeting the Philippines from bases in China shows that the U.S. internet giant wants a better reputation in Southeast Asia after letting things slide in the past, say ... ( read original story ...)
New avenues: Taiwan looking at partners
Even as China continues with its aggressive behaviour around its periphery, it has been particularly tough on Taiwan for allowing senior government officials from the United States of America to visit ... ( read original story ...)
US imposes restrictions on equipment exports to Chinese chipmaker SMIC
The US has imposed export restrictions on Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp (SMIC, 中芯), taking aim at another prominent Chinese technology company and adding to tensions between the two ... ( read original story ...)
U.S. Places Restrictions on China’s Leading Chip Maker
The export controls follow a review in which the United States concluded that Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation may be supplying chips to the Chinese military. ( read original story ...)
Wikimedia Taiwan urges China to act responsibly
Wikimedia Taiwan yesterday called on China to take responsibility for intellectual property (IP) issues after a Chinese delegation pressed the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) to ... ( read original story ...)
PH, Taiwan sign crime-fighting pact
The pact is aimed at cracking down on criminals who exploit the lack of diplomatic relations between both sides ... ( read original story ...)
TIE’s Innovation Pilot Pavilion Showcases Taiwan’s Smart Value and R&D Capacities of Government Agencies
Innovation Pilot Pavilion, organized by the Industrial Development Bureau (IDB), MOEA, opened yesterday (September 24) at the Taipei World Trade Center Exhibition Hall 1. The Pavilion includes four ... ( read original story ...)
China blocks Wikimedia from UN agency WIPO over Taiwan dispute
Beijing objected to the "disinformation" on Wikimedia-affiliated pages that it says violate the "One China" principle. ( read original story ...)
Beijing blocked Wikimedia from a UN agency because of “Taiwan-related issues”
But the nit-picking appeared to merely serve as a prelude to the crux of Beijing’s opposition to Wikimedia: the existence and activities of Wikimedia Taiwan, one of the foundation’s chapters. ( read original story ...)