Taipei, Feb. 19 (CNA) Businesspeople want the President Tsai ... an exodus of companies, infuriated business owners and unhappy workers. Chin Chia-hung (秦嘉鴻), chairman of the Manufacturers United General Association of Industrial Parks of the ... ( read original story ...)
Taipei confirms bird flu in chicken
Taipei, Feb. 17 (CNA) The Taipei City government on Friday said it has detected bird flu in a chicken slaughtered at the city's poultry wholesale market two days ago. The bird was one in a batch of 2,450 chickens from a farm in southern Taiwan's Kaohsiung ... ( read original story ...)
Taipei 2017 athletes to be given smart watch during Universiade
Media Tek, Acer and EasyCard have collaborated to produce around 13,000 smart watches that will be distributed to competitors at the Taipei 2017 Summer Universiade. In order to "allow competitors from around the world to experience the outstanding ... ( read original story ...)
Taiwan's Mega Financial aims for 'stable growth' in 2017: president
TAIPEI Mega Financial Holding, Taiwan's biggest state-run financial holding firm for overseas business, is aiming for "stable growth" in 2017 from the T$22.4 billion($727 million) it reported last year, its president said on Saturday. "Our growth is in ... ( read original story ...)
Growth calling for Chunghwa Telecom
TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Chunghwa Telecom Co., Ltd. said it expected total revenue to increase by NT$1.15 billion, or 0.5 percent, to NT$231.16 billion in 2017 as compared to the unaudited consolidated revenue of 2016. The increase in revenue is expected to be ... ( read original story ...)
Taiwan regrets Spanish decision to deport Taiwanese to China in fraud case
TAIPEI/MADRID Taiwan said on Saturday it "deeply regrets" a decision by the Spanish government to deport to China around 200 Taiwanese nationals suspected of telecom fraud. The Spanish government said on Friday it had approved the extradition of 269 ... ( read original story ...)
Zyxel wins Taiwan Excellence Awards for 12 consecutive years
Zyxel has won the Taiwan Excellence recognitions for 12 years in a row ... speedy Wi-Fi throughout the house and light up the Wi-Fi dead corners with 802.11ac technology, whether it’s on the balcony or across floors. For business, the 802.11ac Smart ... ( read original story ...)
Taiwan stocks up in special session, but shy of key 9,800 level
Taiwan's financial markets are open due to a government holiday schedule for February. As of 0202 GMT, the main TAIEX index rose 0.2 percent, to 9,777.78 points, after closing down 0.1 percent in the previous session. The index has traded above 9,800 twice ... ( read original story ...)
Asus plans to gain in smartphone market
Asustek Computer Thailand, the local operating unit of Taiwanese notebook and smartphone maker Asus, expects to sustain its robust revenue growth pace of 20% this year amid a still-healthy smartphone market and strong demand for gaming computers. ( read original story ...)
Eight arrested in multimillion dollar telecom fraud case
Police in Taiwan have broken up a telecom fraud case in which a university professor on the mainland was scammed out of around 18 million yuan ($2.6 million), according to a report from China News Service. The report said Taiwan police arrested eight ... ( read original story ...)
BRIEF-Sinyi Realty unit buys land in New Taipei at T$1.07 bln
Feb 17 Sinyi Realty Inc: * Says its subsidiary bought two plots of land of 3,041.5 square meters in New Taipei at T$1.07 billion in total from individual Source text in Chinese: goo.gl/28oY0W Further company coverage: (Beijing Headline News) Next In Financials ( read original story ...)
Zhang's team wins patent fight for CRISPR gene-editing technology
Taipei, Feb. 17 (CNA) The United States Patent Trial and Appeal Board has handed a win to Chinese-American synthetic biologist Feng Zhang (張鋒) and his team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in a dispute over patents of the gene ... ( read original story ...)
Taiwan stocks down on profit-taking, tracking regional markets
The electronics subindex climbed as much as 0.4 percent, but the financials subindex slipped up to 0.5 percent. Taiwan's financial markets will be open on Saturday for a special trading session related to the government's holiday schedule for February. ( read original story ...)
Taiwan Seeing Decline in University Students from China
The number of short-term university students from China has declined in Taiwan this academic year in what some fear is retaliation by Beijing against a president who takes a guarded view toward relations. The number of university students from China to ... ( read original story ...)
Taiwan stocks down on profit-taking after five-session rally
but the financials subindex gained 0.2 percent. Profit-taking came after the government raised its growth outlook for the trade-dependent economy this year to a three-year high on expectations of stronger exports. The Taiwan dollar softened T$0.072 to T$30 ... ( read original story ...)
Jerusalem’s OurCrowd gets millions from Taiwan’s SCSB to expand platform to Taipei
Also Read: OurCrowd announces MAS licence approval, ready to market platform in Singapore market OurCrowd opens in Taiwan (Left to right: Denes Ban, Jon Medved, John Yung) The move to Taipei follows the opening of a Singapore office last March where it ... ( read original story ...)