How can it be that a company clever enough to satisfy Apple’s famously stringent requirements can’t figure out how to keep its workers from killing themselves and hurting one another? Last week’s riot at a Foxconn ...
Tags: market view, ceiling, glass
Taipei,Oct.9,2012(CENS)--To bolster Taiwan's economy,the Ministry of Economic Affairs(MOEA)held 2012 Taiwan Business Alliance Conference yesterday(Oct.8),successfully soliciting investment commitment of NT$126 billion from 61 prospective ...
Tags: Taipei, MOEA, Taiwan Business Alliance Conference, Ma Ying-jeou, ECFA
Taipei,Oct.9,2012--In a reversal of six months of consecutive decline,Taiwan's exports jumped 10.4%year-on-year to US$27.166 billion in September,a 14-month high,reported the Ministry of Finance(MOF)yesterday(Oct.8).This is also the first ...
Taipei,Oct.4,2012(CENS)--Requested by their compatriot machine-tool makers,Taiwan's component suppliers have agreed to reduce prices of their products by 3%to 15%to help the machine makers ease upward cost pressure caused by the ...
Tags: Taipei, machine-tool makers, industrial equipment&components, trim price
Taipei,Sept.28,2012(CENS)--During the Oct.1 long holiday of mainland China,from Sept.30 through Oct.7,31,435 mainland Chinese travelers will visit Taiwan,up 63%over the same period last year.Meanwhile,due to the sovereign dispute over ...
Tags: Transportation, Traveler, Tourism Spots
The draft"free economic exemplary zonea"program is scheduled to come out in November.Yiin Chii-ming,minister of the Council for Economic Planning and Development(CEPD),noted yesterday(Sept.26)that there will be two sets of management modes ...
Tags: Chinese firms, enjoy WTO treatment, Taiwan, free economic zone
Taipei,Sept.24,2012(CENS)--Fubon Financial Holding may win out in the scramble among Taiwanese financial holdings for Taiwanese-invested First Sino Bank in mainland China.Fubon Financial Holding may be able to acquire over 50%stake in First ...
Taipei,Sept.24,2012(CENS)--Many Taiwanese machine-tool makers scored fatter earnings in the second quarter than the first quarter this year partly thanks to the depreciation of the New Taiwan Dollar against the U.S.dollar. In the ...
Taipei,Sept.21,2012(CENS)--Hit by anti-dumping probes in major markets,mainland Chinese photovoltaic(PV)manufacturers have begun seeking cooperation with Taiwan's suppliers while trimming the production at in-house facilities. While ...
Tags: Anti-Dumping Probes, Chinese PV Makers, Taiwanese Suppliers
China’s Haitian International Holdings Ltd. has seen its annual sales more than double in recent years to about US$1 billion, joining the ranks of the world’s biggest injection molding machinery suppliers. Now the firm said ...
Tags: market view, plastic machine
Starting November 1,domestic designated banking units(DBUs)will initiate renminbi-related businesses comprehensively,announced the Financial Supervisory Commission(FSC)yesterday(Sept.19). As a result,local people will be able to deposit ...
Tags: RMB business, DBUs, domestic banks, Taiwan, economic policy
Information-communications technology(ICT)sectors between Taiwan and mainland China recently singed several agreements that are estimated to create multibillion NT dollars of business opportunities for Taiwanese suppliers and will enhance ...
Tags: ICT sectors, Taiwan, mainland, ICT
Taipei,Sept.18,2012(CENS)--The Shanghai branch of the Bank of Taiwan was designated yesterday(September 17)as the clearance bank for the NT dollar in mainland China.The Shanghai branch of the Bank of Taiwan is scheduled to start NT-dollar ...
Tags: Bank of Taiwan, clearance bank for Nt dollar, agent bank
Taipei,Sept.17,2012(CENS)--In order to expand the scale of investments and credit extension by Taiwanese banks in mainland China,the Financial Supervisory Commission(FSC)plans to exclude a number of business items from the scope of the ...
Tags: Fsc, Taiwanese Banks in China, Investments and Credit Extension
In the fourth-round relaxation for restrictions on Chinese investments in Taiwan, the government may allow Chinese investments in hotels and sports facilities and remove the investment ceiling forbidding Chinese investors to own controlling ...
Tags: LED