Largan sales up 15% in July; firm expects better August

Taipei, Aug. 5 (CNA) Taiwan-based Largan Precision Co. (大立光), a smartphone camera lens supplier to Apple Inc., said on Saturday that its sales for July rose about 15 percent from a month earlier at a time when its U.S. client started to increase ... ( read original story ...)

New trends developing in emerging markets

Technology stocks have been part of the reason for the strong ... Analysts and investors alike are increasingly looking at a range of EM nations including Korea, Taiwan, China, Latin America, Russia and some of the smaller African countries for the latest ... ( read original story ...)

How This U.S. Tech Giant Is Backing China’s Tech Ambitions

And to help make Chinese chip manufacturing more competitive, Qualcomm has pledged to shift more of its high-end production — long done by outside contractors in Taiwan and South Korea — to China. Beijing is pressing American technology giants to form ... ( read original story ...)

Solar cells can be made cheaper: Richard Corkish

The other technology of focus is the perovskite ... China is one such country but there have been others such as Korea and Taiwan which have a longer history as mass manufacturers. But India certainly has mass manufacturers. Tata and BP Solar had 2 ... ( read original story ...)

Where is the local rail expertise?

Will there be a real transfer of technology? Rolling stock comprises anything and everything ... have won jobs to build highways and tunnels in countries such as India and Taiwan. That is only because these companies were given opportunities in their ... ( read original story ...)

Create Copy Disrupt: Dilemmas of Locating IP and Development

The progress of science and technology of the developed nations are often cited ... the evidence that the developed countries and newly industrialised countries like Taiwan, South Korea, China etc. in the post-war period did not have a strong IP protection ... ( read original story ...)

Dutee Chand crashes out in 1st round of IAAF World Championships

Dutee Chand’s next destination will be the World University Games that begin on August 19 in Taiwan. “Since she is a student of Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KITT) University, she is eligible to compete in the university games,” the ... ( read original story ...)

Telecom carrier fined NT$1 million for poor service

Taipei, Aug. 2 (CNA) Asia Pacific Telecom Co. (亞太電信), one of the major telecom service providers in Taiwan, has copped a fine of NT$1 million (US$33,003) for the poor quality of its 3G service, the National Communications Commission (NCC ... ( read original story ...)