Taipei, Oct. 26, 2012 (CENS)--Rexon Industrial Corp., Ltd., a maker of pneumatic tools in Taiwan, has garnered orders from WARN Industries, Inc., a major auto parts maker in North America. With over 60% market share for automotive ...
Tags: Rexon, pneumatic tools, WARN, automotive winches, snow throwers
Taipei, Oct. 25, 2012 (CENS)--In order to revitalize the international-board bond market, the GreTai Securities Market (the over-the-counter market) has proposed to the Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) allowing simultaneous listing of ...
Tags: bond market, GreTai Securities Market, FSC, ECB
Taipei, Oct. 22, 2012 (CENS)--The Executive Yuan (the Cabinet) has put forth a plan for appropriating NT$300 million in three years, which will be used to subsidize the pays of 300 biotech doctors for receiving one–year re-training at ...
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Taipei, Oct. 24, 2012 (CENS)--Affected by sluggish economy and decline of market interest rates, the Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) announced yesterday (Oct. 23) slashing the interest rates for liabilities reserves funds for foreign ...
Tags: FSC, U.S.dollar-denominated insurance policies, Life insurers
Taipei, Oct. 23, 2012 (CENS)--Inotera Memories Inc. recently announced its board of directors has approved a proposal to increase investment in 30nm process with the aim of migrating all of its monthly capacity of 120,000 wafers to the ...
Tags: Inotera Memories Inc, 30nm process, chips for servers, chips, DRAM
Taipei, Oct. 23, 2012 (CENS)--The Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) announced yesterday (Oct. 22) greatly raising the offsetting quota for margin trading and short sales by increasing the ceiling for margin trading by 50%, so as to ...
Tags: FSC, investors, stock market, securities firms
Taipei, Oct. 24, 2012 (CENS)--LED maker Unity Opto Technology Co., Ltd. vows to snatch 50% of the non-Apple tablet PC backlight market next year. The company predicts to outperform other Taiwanese backlight manufacturers in revenue this ...
Tags: LED, LCD panels, backlights, PCs, laptops, tablet PC
Taipei, Oct. 23, 2012 (CENS)--Taiwan’s Industrial Development Bureau (IDB) recently announced a plan to help Taiwan's machine tool industry with developing intelligent design and manufacturing to increase the industry's revenue to ...
Tags: IDB, machine tool industry, information-communication technology
The United States isn’t the only place debating “reshoring” of manufacturing from China these days -- Taiwan’s large plastics industry is also taking a hard look at whether rising costs in mainland China will bring ...
Tags: Market View, Injection machinery
Taipei, Oct. 23, 2012 (CENS)--Not to lag behind its competitors, HTC Corp., a Taiwanese smartphone vendor, is reportedly to launch its Google Nexus Android phone in the fourth quarter of this year as the fourth smartphone brand joining the ...
Tags: HTC Corp., LG, Samsung, Sony, smartphone, Google Nexus Android phones
Taiwan’s plastics machinery makers are worried about a 40 percent fall in their order books in India, one of their largest export markets, following this year’s sharp drop in the value of the Indian currency against the U.S. ...
Tags: Market View, Injection Machinery
Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA) is organizing a trade exhibition to help Taiwan's textile sector, among others, to increase its exports to the European Union. Taiwan's textile exports to the EU have dropped in recent ...
Tags: TAITRA, textile sector, European Union, FTA
Two international textile events – the 2012 Textile International Forum and Exhibition (TIFE) and the 2012 Taipei Innovative Textile Application Show (TITAS) – were organized by the Taiwan Textile Research Institute (TTRI). ...
Tags: international textile events, TIFE, TITAS, Textile Research Institute
Taipei, Oct. 19, 2012 (CENS)--Chairman S.C. Hsu of the Taiwan Association of Machinery Industry (TAMI) recently signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with his counterpart at the China Machinery Industry Federation (CMIF), Wang ...
Taipei, Oct.19, 2012 (CENS)--Despite the steel industry's gloomy performance recently, 840 steel companies in Taiwan, including the China Steel Corp. (CSC), Yieh Phui Enterprise Co., and Chun Yuan Steel Co., plan to add nearly 3,000 ...
Tags: steel industry, CSC, steel and screw maker, machine operators