Taipei,Oct.12,2012--Premier Sean Chen expressed yesterday(Oct.11)that the government will greatly lift the restrictions on foreign investments in Taiwanese industries not only in the manufacturing sector but also in the financial-service ...
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Taipei,Oct.12,2012--The Southern Taiwan Science Park(STSP),one of Taiwan's top three science parks,saw its aggregate revenue for the first eight months of this year amounted to NT$401.6 billion,up 4.29%year on year(YoY),with the growth ...
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Taipei,Oct.12,2012--To beef up bilateral trade with the EU,the Bureau of Foreign Trade(BOFT)has instructed the Taiwan External Trade Development Council(TAITRA)to hold one-on-one buyer-supplier meetings,dubbed"2012 Trade with the EU"and the ...
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Taipei,Oct.12,2012--Taiwan's foreign exchange reserves increased US$3.728 billion from a month earlier to US$397.954 billion at the end of September,remaining the world's fourth largest holder of forex reserves,according to the central ...
Taipei,Oct.12,2012(CENS)--The market for electric scooters(e-scooters)is expected to expand from around 12 million vehicles in 2012 to exceed 103 million vehicles on Asian roads by 2018,according to a recent report from Pike Research. The ...
Gallium nitride on silicon (GaN-on-Si)-based LEDs have been fabricated using high‐brightness LED structures of Epistar Corp of Taipei, Taiwan and the patented technology for 150mm GaN-on-Si substrates of Azzurro Semiconductors AG of ...
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US announces final anti-dumping,anti-subsidy verdict on China-based solar firms Nuying Huang,Taipei;Jackie Chang,DIGITIMES[Thursday 11 October 2012]The US Department of Commerce(DOC)announced its final verdict on the anti-dumping and ...
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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 ...
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Taipei,Oct.9,2012(CENS)--Formosa Plastics Group's steel business will start soon as its stainless steel plant in Fujian,China,will come online in the first quarter of 2013,earlier than expected,with 720,000 tonnes in annual output initially ...
Taiwan Ministry of Economic Affairs is studying the feasibility of subsidizing households which replace fluorescent lighting and incandescent lights with LED light bulbs, Vice Minister of Economic Affairs Francis Liang made the remark on ...
Taipei,Oct.9,2012(CENS)--MediaTek Inc.became the world's No.3 supplier of smartphone processors in the first half of this year mostly thanks to strong market for low-priced smartphones of mainland China,where the Taiwanese fabless company ...
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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)--With ever more people choosing all-in-one(AIO)personal computers(PC)instead of traditional desktop PCs in recent years,shipments of AIO PCs will likely outstrip 20%growth year on year(YoY)in 2013,driving up revenues ...
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 ...
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Taipei, Oct. 4, 2012 (CENS)--Since the accumulated price hike in recent years may exceed 3%, the Ministry of Finance (MOF) estimated that tax exemption amount, taxation brackets, and tax exemption amount for retirement income may be raised ...
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