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Forbes - Fri May 25, 8:35 am ET
Grand Ocean Retail Group, one of the largest Taiwan-backed department store chains in the mainland, is expected to list its shares at the Taiwan Stock Exchange on June 6, industry executives said. Prior to its IPO, the company?s main shareholder with a 52% stake is First Steamship, a Taiwan-listed shipping company. Goldman holds a 3% ...
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Space War - Fri May 25, 7:56 pm ET
Taipei (AFP) May 25, 2012 Taiwan's supreme court has upheld a decision to sentence a businessman to three-and-a-half years in jail for spying for China, in a case local media said has spooked the island's own agents abroad. Lo Ping was found guilty by a lower court of being a double-agent and of recruiting a military intelligence officer to work for Beijing. The sentence was upheld Thursday ...
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Asia News Network via Yahoo! Philippines News - Sun May 27, 6:20 am ET
Taipei (The China POst/ANN) - Taiwan should be included in the United States' visa-waiver program (VWP) in the second half of this year, in line with the government's original schedule, Chinese Foreign Minister Timothy Yang said yesterday.
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Asia News Network via Yahoo! Singapore News - Sun May 27, 6:20 am ET
Taipei (The China POst/ANN) - Taiwan-born Major League Baseball (MLB) pitcher Chien-Ming Wang made a winning return from injuries as the Washington Nationals beat the Atlanta Braves 7-4 on Friday.
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AsiaOne - Thu May 24, 9:56 pm ET
TAIWAN - Taiwanese tycoon Tsai Eng-meng topped the island's richest list for the first time boosted by his booming China-based business, Forbes magazine said Thursday.
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Boston Globe - Sun May 27, 8:53 am ET
Veteran politician Su Tseng-chang has been elected chairman of Taiwan's main opposition party. A lawyer by training and a former premier, Su takes a more pragmatic attitude toward China than many colleagues in the Democratic Progressive Party who support Taiwan's formal independence.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Sun May 27, 3:51 am ET
Taiwan's main opposition party voted for a new leader on Sunday after a disappointing showing in the presidential elections in January.
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FOX Business - Thu May 24, 2:51 am ET
China Steel Corp. (2002.TW), Taiwan's largest steel producer by revenue, said Thursday that it will keep most local prices for the July-August period unchanged from June.
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Digi Times - Fri May 25, 5:21 am ET
More China-based handset vendors are planning to launch sub-NT$4,000 (US$135) smartphones in the Taiwan market in the third quarter of 2012 following Taiwan Mobile's recent release of a comparable own-brand model, the Amazing A1, according to market sources.
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Asia News Network via Yahoo! Philippines News - Fri May 25, 12:10 am ET
Taipei (The China Post/ANN) - Taiwan has taken fourth place in the global ranking of download bandwidth/speed for broadband Internet connections, with the speed reaching 28.78 Mbps, higher than Singapore's 28.31 Mbps (5th place) and South Korea's 27.65 Mbps (8th), according to the Household Download and Upload Index released on May 21 by Speedtest.com, an international website dedicated to ...
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Chinapost.com.tw - 2 hours 28 minutes ago
Acting Chairwoman Chen Chu of the main opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) said she hoped that the new DPP chief elected yesterday would ably handle the issues concerning Taiwan's harmonious exchanges with mainland China.
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The Hindu - Sun May 27, 8:40 am ET
The next iPad could be built out of Karnataka. Taiwanese companies are planning to set up their electronics hardware manufacturing plants in the state.
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Asia News Network via Yahoo! Malaysia News - Sun May 27, 6:30 am ET
Bang Lamung (The Nation/ANN) - Twelve Taiwanese nationals were arrested in Chon Buri province of Thailand yesterday for alleged involvement in a call-centre scam.
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Forbes - Wed May 23, 5:59 pm ET
This year?s new No. 1 on our Forbes Taiwan Rich List, billionaire Tsai Eng-Meng, is respected for his entrepreneurial success in China?s snack food industry, and with good reason. His flagship Want Want ChinaHoldings is an example of a Taiwan business that brought product know-how to the mainland relatively early in the country?s economic reforms, has kept a good reputation for itself in an ...
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Asia News Network - Sat May 26, 10:35 pm ET
Twelve Taiwanese nationals were arrested in Chon Buri province of Thailand yesterday for alleged involvement in a call-centre scam. Chon Buri police searched a rented house in Bang Lamung suspected of being the base of a foreign call-centre scam, deceiving victims to transfer money to the syndicate.