Q1 2020 Earnings Conference Call April 29, 2020, 03:00 ET Company Participants Kenneth Hsiang - Head, IR Joseph Tung - ... ( read original story ...)
Taiwan Stock Market May Crack 11,000-Point Barrier
The Taiwan stock market has moved higher in three straight sessions, climbing more than 410 points or 4 percent along the way. The Taiwan Stock Exchange now sits just above the 10,770-point plateau ... ( read original story ...)
Global Coronavirus Shutdown Tests Taiwan’s Economic Resilience
Taiwan is one of the few places to quickly get its coronavirus outbreak under control, but it’s unclear whether it can also avoid a recession as the global slump in demand looks set to hit the ... ( read original story ...)
Taiwan’s Coronavirus Moment — And Delicate Balancing Act
The pandemic provides an opportunity for Taiwan to raise its international profile. But that is unlikely to go over well in Beijing, which is facing pressures for its own handling of the virus. ( read original story ...)
Virus Outbreak: Lite-On profit up on better product mix
Electronic components maker Lite-On Technology Corp (光寶科技) yesterday reported that first-quarter net profit rose 7.3 percent from a year earlier to NT$1.57 billion (US$52.42 million), despite the ... ( read original story ...)
Virus Outbreak: Prototype of new ventilator set to be built: minister
Local medical equipment suppliers are soon to build a prototype of a ventilator to treat COVID-19 patients, Minister of Economic Affairs Shen Jong-chin (沈榮津) said yesterday. Funding for the Ministry ... ( read original story ...)
EDITORIAL: Fire is latest in avoidable incidents
With the cloud of a recall vote hanging over the head of Kaohsiung Mayor Han Kuo-yu (韓國瑜) and the overturning on Friday last week of the first rulings on liability for the 2014 gas explosions in the ... ( read original story ...)
Targeted in Hong Kong, Causeway Bay Books Has a New Home: Taiwan
Lam Wing-kee, the former owner of Causeway Bay Books in Hong Kong, reopened his business in Taipei on April 25. His last bookstore in Hong Kong was forced to shut down for the sale of banned books ... ( read original story ...)
Manny Ramirez, 47, wants to return to pro baseball in Taiwan’s CPBL
Manny Ramirez, who will be 48 next month, is trying to make a comeback in Taiwan's CPBL this year. He played in the league in 2014. ( read original story ...)
Taiwan Emerging From Pandemic With a Stronger Hand Against China
Very few governments around the world are likely to emerge from the pandemic in an even stronger position than before. Taiwan is one of them -- and that’s not good for China. ( read original story ...)
ASE Technology Hldg: 1Q Earnings Snapshot
KAOHSIUNG, Taiwan (AP) _ ASE Technology Holding Co., Ltd. (ASX) on Wednesday reported first-quarter net income of $129.5 million. The Kaohsiung, Taiwan-based company said it had profit of ... ( read original story ...)
ASE Technology Holding Co., Ltd. Reports Unaudited Consolidated Financial Results for the First Quarter of 2020
ASE Technology Holding Co., Ltd. (TAIEX: 3711, NYSE: ASX) ("We", "ASEH", or the "Company"), the leading provider of semiconductor manufacturing services in assembly and test, today reported unaudited ... ( read original story ...)
China can’t be allowed to block Taiwan from WHO
In the 17 years since it was hit hard by Sars, Taiwan has been ready for the threat of an emerging infectious disease. As a result, when information about an outbreak of a novel form of pneumonia in ... ( read original story ...)
Former Seattle Cook, Now Taiwan-Based, Ships Homemade Masks to Local Chefs
With masks to protect against COVID-19 difficult to come by, one local expat hopes to be a one-woman supply to the Seattle restaurant industry. Atina Tan, a former line cook now living in Taiwan, is ... ( read original story ...)
Tech Shares Likely To Drag Taiwan Shares Lower
The Taiwan stock market has finished higher in back-to-back trading days, climbing more than a60 points or 2.6 percent along the way. ( read original story ...)
Silicon Motion: 1Q Earnings Snapshot
Silicon Motion Technology Corp. (SIMO) on Tuesday reported first-quarter earnings of $25.9 million. The Hsinchu County, Taiwan-based company said it had ... ( read original story ...)