Citi hikes GDP growth forecast to 4.7% Taipei Times CAUTIOUS OPTIMISM: Citigroup forecast that government spending to fund public infrastructure would boost domestic demand to compensate for the export slowdown | Citigroup Taiwan yesterday raised its forecast for the nation¡¦s GDP growth to 4.7 percent ¡X up from the 4.5 percent it projected in April...
Taiwan's president moves toward looser Japan, U.S. ties Canada Dot Com | An unforeseen effect of the coming to power in Taiwan in May of president Ma Ying-jeou and the Kuomintang (KMT) party is an apparent loosening of relations with Japan and the United States, traditionally the two guarantors of the island's independence. | Ma's victory in the March presidential elec...
First Nations, Taiwan giant join forces Canada Dot Com | A fledgling oilsands venture in Saskatchewan involving four First Nations communities and Taiwan refining giant CPC Corp. will "freeze up" a relatively small swath of 20,000 hectares of prospective oilsands land along the Alberta-Saskatchewan borde...
Taiwan stocks open higher, tech shares rebound The Times Of India | TAIPEI: Taiwan stocks opened up 1.82 per cent on Wednesday, following strong gains on Wall Street, as tech shares bounced back after falling the previous day on weak earnings reports from...
Taiwan stocks track Wall St lower; TSMC falls The Times Of India | TAIPEI: Taiwan shares fell 0.79 per cent on Tuesday after the previous day's 4 per cent gain, with big tech names such as TSMC tracking losses in US peers on worries over slower tech dema...
Citi hikes GDP growth forecast to 4.7% Taipei Times CAUTIOUS OPTIMISM: Citigroup forecast that government spending to fund public infrastructure would boost domestic demand to compensate for the export slowdown | Citigroup Taiwan yesterday raised its forecast for the nation¡¦s GDP growth to 4.7 percen...
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China Airlines ends Sea-Tac run to Taipei Seattle Post-Intelligence | China Airlines is pulling its thrice-weekly flight from Sea-Tac Airport to Taipei on Sept. 1, more than four years after the Taiwan-based airline added the service whose inceptio...
China Airlines ends Sea-Tac run to Taipei Seattle Post Service began four years ago | China Airlines is pulling its thrice-weekly flight from Sea-Tac Airport to Taipei on Sept. 1, more than four years after the Taiwan-based airline add...
Whole lotta shakin' goin' on Asia Times | By R M Cutler | MONTREAL - India and China continue to be the second- and third-most volatile indices as well as possibly the ones taking the second- and third-greatest percentage losses. If India escapes that fate this week, it will only be becaus...
Asahi Glass to build 5th LCD glass plant in Taiwan The Times Of India | TOKYO: Japan's Asahi Glass said on Friday it would start building a fifth LCD glass-making factory in Taiwan next month, with investment estimated at 20 billion yen ($188 million). | But ...
Taiwan's Hon Hai wages judicial battle against Chinese competitor The Star | TAIPEI (AP) - Taiwan's giant electronics manufacturer Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. appears to have a big advantage in the China market - its principals all speak Chinese and have an intuitive sense for the country's often bewildering business cul...
Taiwan dollar moves up on exporter demand The Times Of India | TAIPEI: The Taiwan dollar opened slightly lower on Monday but soon reversed course, as exporters sold U.S. dollars at the end of the month to meet their spending needs at home. The Taiwan dollar opened at T$30.400 to the U.S. dollar, down slightly from its close of T$30.388 on Friday. |...
Whole lotta shakin' goin' on Asia Times | By R M Cutler | MONTREAL - India and China continue to be the second- and third-most volatile indices as well as possibly the ones taking the second- and third-greatest percentage losses. If India escapes that fate this week, it will only be because of a one-day Thursday recovery of 4.3% that almost matched its one-day Tuesday decline of 4.9%. | ...
