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TOKYO (Reuters) - Struggling Japanese chipmaker Renesas Electronics Corp is planning to slash as many as 14,000 jobs and sell a major semiconductor factory in Japan to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co, the Nikkei newspaper reported.

Banco Santander, la première banque espagnole, envisage de vendre une participation dans sa filiale brésilienne afin de lever du capital et ainsi couvrir ses pertes croissantes en Espagne, rapporte vendredi une agence locale. Santander pourrait vendre entre 30% et 40% de Banco Santander Brasil,...Articles en rapportWall Street ouvre sans direction, hésitante avant un long week-endL'euro tombe s...

Le régulateur local n'a pas autorisé l'assureur français a ouvrir une succursale dans l'île. AXA était déjà sorti à deux reprises du marché taïwanais.

* Price, weak stock market may have been stumbling block-analyst

The annual Cross-Straits Forum, a weeklong event for grassroots exchanges between people from the mainland and Taiwan, will start on June 16 in Fujian.

The coast guard in the southern Taiwan city of Kaohsiung have stopped a shipment of 811 endangered turtles thought to be headed to Chinese restaurants across the strait, according to local media Thursday.

Taiwan has begun testing DNA from shark fins sold in local markets in a bid to protect endangered species such as great whites and whale sharks, an official from the Fisheries Agency said Wednesday.

BEIJING — China's Defense Ministry has accused the Pentagon of hyping Chinese military power and its threat to Taiwan in a depiction that will ultimately undermine ties between the two militaries.The annual Pentagon report to Congress on China's military always draws strenuous objections from Beijing. This year's report – which outlined a Chinese military modernization effort that is gaining mo...

LOS ANGELES (AFP) - Millions of sky-gazers got the spectacle of a lifetime as a “ring of fire” solar eclipse crossed the Pacific from Asia to the United States, where it triggered whoops at festive viewing parties. The annular eclipse was visible in western US states from California to Texas late Sunday and in parts of China, Taiwan and Japan on Monday local time, making a ...

La Chine s'est déclarée lundi "fermement opposée" à la vente de F-16 par les Etats-Unis à Taïwan, suite à l'adoption jeudi d'un amendement par la Chambre des représentants américaine visant à autoriser la vente à Taipei de 66 de ces avions de combat.histoires liéesAir France négocie sur la productivité et planche sur les sureffectifsL´Espagne confie aux cabinets Berger et Wyman un audit sur ses...

An interactive NASA Google map shows the best spots for viewing Sunday's solar eclipse, a once-in-a-generation event thrilling the Pacific Rim. The Google map, available here, allows users to click on any location on Earth and see when the eclipse begins, hits its maximum and ends. The only trick is that you'll have to convert the time from Universal Time. But we've done the calculatio...

Top-seeded Yani Tseng of Taiwan lost to Candie Kung in the third round of the Sybase Match Play Championship in Gladstone, N.J.

There is an exotic flower in little Taiwan’s diplomatic quiver – orchids. And so seriously does the country take its orchid trade that of the $150 million worth of flowers it exports annually, orchids account for a staggering 77% of the business.

Tens of thousands of Taiwanese rallied in Taipei on Saturday to voice their anger at President Ma Ying-jeou over a spate of controversial policies, on the eve of his inauguration for a second term.

A leader of the Tiananmen Square protests went to the Chinese embassy in D.C. in a bid to return home, only to find no one inside wanted to see him.

The House of Representatives has voted to require the United States to sell 66 new fighter jets to Taiwan, with lawmakers saying the deal would close a growing military gap with China.

Rui Sha is the most popular model in Taiwan.

With China on the rise, now is the time to renew Washington's relationship with Taipei.

Here's "Judge Judy" star Judith Sheindlin, 69, in NYC on Wednesday (left) -- and cutting edge popstar Lady Gaga in Taiwan on Wednesday as well (right).It ain't easy being green.We're just sayin'.

Ma, who won re-election to a second term earlier this year, was on Wednesday ordered to pay T$500,000 (US$16,666) by the island's Central Election Commission for posting a message to his Facebook campaign page on the day of the election.

Topeka Capital Markets’s Brian White this morning reiterates a Buy rating on shares of Apple (AAPL) and a $1,111 price target, writing that sales for the collection of Taiwan-based electronics firm that he uses as a “barometer” for Apple’s sales were weaker than usual in April. April sales for the Taiwan firms, which he estimates [...]

A city in northern Taiwan will run an innovative scheme to keep its streets clean by encouraging residents to collect dog poo for a chance to win gold.

Susquehanna cites ASML, KLA-Tencor and Taiwan Semiconductor.

Apple's tablet sales expand deeper into Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Middle East FORTUNE -- The fastest roll-out yet of an iOS device picked up pace this week as Apple (AAPL) prepared to launch the new iPad in 23 countries Friday and seven more on Saturday. The longest lines are likely to be in Brazil, where Apple and Foxconn have set up local assembly plants to avoid that country's ste...

Whatever supply constraints Apple once faced with the new iPad, it appears to have resolved them. The company will launch the device in an additional 30 countries including Brazil, Argentina, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Taiwan. Noticably absent from this latest rollout list: China. With the addition of those nations, the total number of countries in which the new iPad is available for purchase wil...

A tourist bus crashes over a cliff in southern Taiwan, injuring 13 South Korean tourists.

Zhao Zhunwang expone 70 de sus obras sobre la isla

Chinese telecom equipment maker Huawei is considering building its first research and development center in Taiwan. According to reports in Taiwanese local media, a spokesperson from Huawei said that the company's procurement from Taiwan will increase with its revenue growth. In 2011, Huawei's procurement value in Taiwan reached NTD110 billion, which was about CNY23.65 billion. [...]

Officials say a soldier has fatally shot himself while standing guard at the front gate of Taiwan's presidential office building in downtown Taipei.

MrSeb writes "Back in the olden days, when WiFi and Bluetooth were just a glimmer in the eye of IEEE, another short-range wireless communications technology ruled supreme: Infrared Data Association, or IrDA for short. IrDA was awful; early versions were only capable of kilobit-per-second speeds, and only over a distance of a few feet. Trying to get my laptop and mobile phone to link up via IrDA...

The government in Taiwan is re-considering its decision to raise electricity prices which would have hit business and consumers hard.

Almost as much fun as the "Unicorn Chaser" plane Boing Boing named for Virgin America airlines! A passenger looks out of an Airbus A330-300 aircraft of Taiwan's Eva Airlines, decorated with Hello Kitty motifs, in Taoyuan International Airport, northern Taiwan, April 30, 2012. Taiwan's second-largest carrier, Eva Airlines, and Japan's comic company, Sanrio, which owns [...]

Contestants at a Taiwan beauty pageant will this year be required not to partake in extra-marital love affairs, the contest's organisers have said.

Taiwan snapped two straight quarters of contraction, but an uncertain outlook for its major trading partners prompted Taipei to revise growth forecasts for the year.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Days before annual U.S.-Chinese diplomatic and economic talks, relations between the powers risked sharply deteriorating Saturday with an escaped Chinese activist reportedly under American protection and a U.S. fighter jet sale to Taiwan now being considered....

Film about 1930 Taiwan uprising is tempered by a sense of loss

In Taiwan hat ein 14-jähriges Mädchen auf der Schultoilette ein Baby zur Welt gebracht. Die Schulkrankenschwester nahm es offenbar nicht ernst, als die übergewichtige Schülerin über Bauchschmerzen klagte.

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) -- Taiwan smartphone maker HTC Corp. reported a 70 percent drop in first quarter profit as it faces keener competition from Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co....

A team of scientists at the National Health Research Institute and China Medical University Hospital in Taiwan studied the health and habits of 434,190 people in Taiwan from 1996 to 2008 and found that exercise helps smokers quit

L’Allemand Sebastian Vettel (Red Bull) a remporté le Grand Prix de Bahreïn de Formule 1, 4e manche du Championnat du monde, devant le Finlandais Kimi Räikkönen (Lotus) et le ...lire la suitehistoires liées15:13 Le Kenyan Kipsang gagne le marathon de Londres15:18 Marathon de Londres: victoire de Kipsang15:37 Manchester Utd tenu en échec par Everton 4-415:34 Monte Carlo : 8e titre de Nadal qui do...

Holy shiz! What a way to start off the summer! Battleship has reportedly made $100 million within the first 10 days of being open for international release, and furthermore, is expected to hit the $126.7 million mark by tomorrow! Universal Pictures made the apparently-very wise decision to premiere the game-turned-action flick, which stars Alexander Skarsgard and [...]

Masafumi Nagasaki (pictured) has spent two decades living by himself on the small island of Sotobanari island between Japan and Taiwan

Masafumi Nagasaki has spent two decades living by himself on the small island of Sotobanari island between Japan and Taiwan

Nearly 20 percent of homosexuals in Taiwan have attempted suicide due to discrimination, a survey showed Tuesday, dealing a blow to the island's reputation as a liberal haven for gays.

München (dpa) - Der Chef der deutschen Microsoft-Niederlassung, Ralph Haupter, übernimmt die Verantwortung für Microsoft in China, Hongkong und Taiwan. Das teilte Microsoft am Freitag in München mit....

À Taïwan, où la consommation d'aristoloches est importante, les cancers du rein sont quatre fois plus fréquents qu'ailleurs.Articles en rapportPlainte après l'annulation d'une greffe à cause d'une grèveUn pacemaker cérébral efficace contre la dépression sévèreMcDonalds a-t-il sa place à l'hôpital ?Le diagnostic des candidats sur l'accès aux soinsUne thérapie cellulaire rend la vue à des malvoya...

A banned substance still found in some Chinese herbal remedies sold in the UK and U.S has been blamed for the high rate of urinary tract cancers in Taiwan.

BALTIMORE (AP) -- Wei-Yin Chen had a rocky start and a lamentable finish in his major league debut. In between, the Taiwan native performed pretty darn well....

On a night staged for Baltimore Orioles left-hander Wei-Yin Chen to take the spotlight — with more than a million viewers in his native Taiwan watching his big-league debut half a world away at 7 a.m. — fans there received the gift of extra baseball until the cusp of lunchtime. Read full article >>

Guardian research finds that gifts and funding included trips to 27 countries and £32,000 donation to parliamentary choirDonations to all-party parliamentary groups: get the data Businesses, overseas governments and lobby groups have given sponsorship, free gifts and funding worth at least £1.8m to MPs and Lords in the past year through all-party parliamentary groups, Guardian research has reve...

In Taiwan wurden heute Release-Termin und Preise des Padfones bekanntgegeben. Die hiesige Markteinführung soll kurz nach dem taiwanesischen Verkaufsstart erfolgen. Eines ist allerdings jetzt schon klar: Billig wird das Padfone nicht. mehr...

As part of its ongoing effort to save power and cost in its custom-built data centers, Google will cool the servers in its new Taiwan computing facility using a technique known as thermal energy storage. With this technique, the company can run its air conditioning systems at night when electricity rates are lower, cooling insulated tanks filed with ice or liquid coolant that can then be used t...

The government has signalled that it intends to introduce a capital-gains tax on investments

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TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) -- A Chinese attempt to develop a special economic zone with joint Taiwan management has run afoul of the government in Taipei, which sees it as an attempt by Beijing to make political inroads on the democratic island....

TAIPEI - Taiwan said Tuesday it will open big areas of its economy to Chinese businesses for the first time in a bid to encourage greater investment and create more jobs on the island. Chinese investors will be allowed to buy up to 50 percent of shares in key public infrastructure including subways, light rail systems, bridges and tunnels as well as cultural and educational facilities, the ...

TAIPEI - Taiwan said Tuesday it will open big areas of its economy to Chinese businesses for the first time in a bid to encourage greater investment and create more jobs on the island. Chinese investors will be allowed to buy up to 50 percent of shares in key public infrastructure including subways, light rail systems, bridges and tunnels as well as cultural and educational facilities, the ...

A press official for Taiwan responds to a column by Thomas L. Friedman praising his country.

A graduate art student in Taiwan found blood in his urine while peeing one day. So he thought: hey, I can draw Iron Man with this!—as you do when such things happen, of course. And then, things got even worse. More »

Die Agentur für Ernährungssicherheit AGES warnt vor dem aus Taiwan kommenden Produkt "Tofu mit Chili eingelegt". Bei den in Schraubgläsern in Sesamöl eingelegten Tofustücken wurde eine Kontamination mit Bacillus cereus festgestellt. Das Bakterium kann schwere Durchfälle auslösen, das Produkt wurde daher als gesundheitsschädlich beurteilt.

Wien (OTS) - Die AGES gibt im Auftrag des Bundesministeriums für Gesundheit bekannt, dass im Produkt "Tofu mit Chili eingelegt" (in Sesamöl eingelegte Tofustücke mit Chili in Schraubgläsern 300 g), Herkunftsland Taiwan, eine Kontamination mit Bacillus cereus festgestellt wurde. Dieses ...

Die Deutsche Bank hat Aixtron von "Hold" auf "Buy" hochgestuft und das Kursziel von 12,00 auf 17,00 Euro angehoben. Die Fundamentaldaten für MOCVD-Anlagenhersteller wie Aixtron besserten sich wieder, schrieb Analyst Uwe Schupp in einer Branchenstudie vom Donnerstag. Diese Einschätzung basiere auf einigen Treffen mit chinesischen LED-Unternehmen und einer Analyse der Vertriebskanäle in Taiwan un...

The launch date for the next iteration of one of the biggest gaming franchises of all time, Diablo III, is May 15, Blizzard has announced. Ther…

Hiring intentions of Indian employers is in fact the strongest in the world followed by countries like Brazil, Taiwan, Peru and Turkey, according to a survey.

Only South Korea and Taiwan have more Olympic taekwondo medals than the Lopez family. This summer, they will return to the games once again.

Der UN-Sicherheitsrat hat ein sofortiges Ende der Gewalt im Grenzgebiet zwischen dem Sudan und dem Südsudan gefordert. Vertreter der beiden Länder streiten derweil weiter um Ölvorkommen und Grenzverläufe.Mehr zum ThemaProteste nach Putin-Wahl - Massiver Polizei-Einsatz gegen Putin-GegnerPeking fordert „Respekt“ - China will USA Waffengeschäfte mit Taiwan ausredenAm Tag nach den Massen-Protesten...

Bundespräsident Christian Wulff will seine Verabschiedung als Bundespräsident offenbar nicht kurz und schmerzlos hinter sich bringen. Für den Zapfenstreich orderte er vier Lieder, eines mehr als üblich. Er will auch die "Ode an die Freude" hören.Mehr zum ThemaPeking fordert „Respekt“ - China will USA Waffengeschäfte mit Taiwan ausredenAcht-Punkte-Plan - Rösler macht Druck auf HeuschreckenAm Tag...

TAIPEI (Reuters) - Nomura Holdings and billionaire investor George Soros have cut their stakes in Taishin Financial to about 1 percent each from about 3 percent last year, marking the latest exodus by foreign investors from Taiwan's over-banked market.

BEIJING (Reuters) - A senior Chinese official pledged on Saturday to reach out to the youth of Taiwan to get them to identify more closely with China, as Beijing frets about pro-independence sentiment on the self-ruled democratic island it claims as its own.

There are plenty of custom tailors on the Internet these days and they seem like the perfect business - you take a commodity product and spiff it up then send the work to places where expert custom manufacturers aren't that hard to find (namely places like Hong Kong and Taiwan). The resulting products are bespoke and make the owners feel like they're in on something special. It works every time...

Weil immer mehr Taiwanerinnen spät oder gar nicht heiraten, kriegt jede Frau im Durchschnitt nur 1,1 Kinder. Gleichzeitig altert die Gesellschaft in Taiwan rapide. mehr...

Aunque hayamos navegado un montón, no podemos decir que hayamos avanzado mucho

Affinity Asia’s founder and its CEO have quickly made names for themselves with ‘globally minded’ strategic thinking

A book on the rise of New York Knicks guard Jeremy Lin will be out in May, while students in Taiwan get time off to watch him play on TV.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Jeremy Lin, whose meteoric rise from obscurity to dazzling court general for the New York Knicks has become a global story, had a rare favor to ask of the massive media turnout for his team's 104-97 victory over the NBA champion Dallas Mavericks on Sunday.

A Birmingham man competing in a round-the-world yacht race is in hospital after being injured in high seas off Taiwan.

What was totally unexpected was the dramatic entry on the sports and international scene of New York Knicks basketball player Jeremy Lin, a Chinese-American born in Palo Alto, California, to parents from Taiwan.

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Carlyle Group has begun the process to offload its more than $300 million stake in mid-sized Taiwanese lender Ta Chong Bank Ltd , sources said, joining other private equity...

NBA star Jeremy Lin is a great son of China, a stellar son of Taiwan, a California boy made good or a fine example of Christian manhood.

Chinese Vice-President Xi Jinping has called on the US to recognise Beijing's one-state policy and to oppose moves towards independence for Taiwan and Tibet.

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TAIPEI (Reuters) - He may have derided Android devices in real life but in the afterlife Apple Inc founder Steve Jobs is glad he can use one -- or at least that's the story a Jobs look-alike tells in a recent TV commercial for a Taiwanese electronics company's new product.

TAIPEI, Taiwan — Shortly before Taiwan’s presidential election last weekend, Tsai Eng Meng, a local billionaire who spends most of his time in China, jumped on his Gulfstream 200 corporate jet and flew home to cast his vote. Read full article >>

Ma Ying-jeou's reelection lowers the chances for new tensions with mainland China. But that doesn't mean U.S. support for Taiwan is unnecessary.Ma Ying-jeou, the incumbent president of Taiwan, has now won his hard-fought battle for reelection. What does it mean for the United States?

After avidly following Taiwan’s presidential campaign online, many mainland Chinese expressed the desire to one day soon choose their own leaders.

Both U.S., China applaud win, as island leader expected to continue course of rapprochement with Beijing

Ma Ying-jeou a été réélu samedi pour un mandat de quatre ans face au chef de l'opposition, Tsai Ing-wen. Il a obtenu 51,6 % des voix. Juriste de soixante et un ans formé aux Etats-Unis, il défend des relations apaisées avec la Chine, premier partenaire commercial de Taiwan alors que son opposante...

Ma Ying-jeou’s victory in Taiwan’s presidential race reaffirms his policy of establishing closer ties with Beijing

[[347888]] TAIPEI (AFP) : La réélection à Taïwan d'un président artisan du rapprochement avec la Chine est un soulagement pour Pékin et Washington, mais Ma Ying-jeou pourrait connaître un second mandat plus difficile, entre les attentes de son voisin et les craintes des Taïwanais, selon les...

Los logros económicos y el acercamiento a Pekín le han valido una nueva legislatura a Ma Ying-Jeou. El descontento de una gran parte de la población, que ve cómo se encarece la vida y siente que el crecimiento económico solo beneficia a unos pocos, no consiguió doblegar ayer al pragmatismo que siempre impregna el carácter chino. Finalmente, el capital que han traído las buenas relaciones con el...

Ma Ying-jeou seals second term in office, securing more than 50 per cent of votes and promising closer ties with China.

Bei der Präsidentschaftswahl in Taiwan hat sich Amtsinhaber Ma überraschend deutlich durchgesetzt. Das Ergebnis gilt auch als Bestätigung für Mas vorsichtige wirtschaftliche Annäherung an Peking. "Das ist ein Sieg für die Bevölkerung Taiwans", erklärte er vor seinen Anhängern.

Taipeh (dpa) - Bei der Wahl in Taiwan hat Präsident Ma Ying-jeou einen überraschend deutlichen Sieg erzielt. Der Erfolg konnte als Bestätigung seiner Annäherungspolitik an China gewertet werden. «Dan...

TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan voters re-elected incumbent President Ma Ying-jeou on Saturday, endorsing his push for closer ties with Beijing and removing a potential irritant in Sino-U.S. relations as those two powers head for a year of political transition.

Release Time:  For Immediate Release We congratulate Ma Ying-jeou on his reelection and the people of Taiwan on the successful conduct of their presidential and legislative elections. Through the hard work of its people and its remarkable economic and political development over the past decades, Taiwan has proven to be one of th...

About 80 percent of 18 million eligible voters turned out in an election that pitted incumbent President Ma Jing-yeou against Tsai Ing-wen and a third opponent.

WITH TAIWAN’S presidential elections taking place this weekend, what is notable across the strait dividing the island from mainland China is the absence of the usual sabre-rattling and harsh rhetoric before the polls.

L'année 2012 est riche en échéances électorales, les Taïwanais étant eux aussi convoqués à un double scrutin présidentiel et législatif. S'il existe des travaux scientifiques abondants sur la société taïwanaise, on comprend aisément que l'honnête homme n'ait guère le temps de s'y plonger. Depuis leur (...) / Chine, Japon, Taïwan, Colonialisme, Histoire, Nationalisme - 2011/11

Trendsetter in Sachen Reisen gehen im nächsten Jahr in Uganda auf Safari. Wem das zu riskant ist, der radelt durch Taiwan oder macht einen Ausflug nach Tschernobyl. Von FOCUS-Online-Redakteurin Tinga Horny

La primera edición de la muestra cerró hoy con un rotundo éxito de público

Deal would be small economically but rich in significance, hinting at closer rapprochement in advance of Taiwan’s elections

Taiwan's opposition party demands a probe into alleged surveillance by security and intelligence units on its presidential candidate.

(Reuters) - From Charl Schwartzel's stunning four-birdie finish to win the Masters in April to Yani Tseng's 12th victory of the year on her native Taiwan LPGA Tour in December, 2011 delivered a glut of electrifying performances.

A Taiwanese TV station has apologised after a newsreader mimicked the emotional tone of the North Korean anchorwoman who made the grief-stricken announcement of the death of Kim Jong Il.

The most senior U.S. defense official to visit China since the latest controversial U.S. arms sales to Taiwan said she sought to reassure Beijing that it wasn't the target of a U.S. strategic shift toward Asia, including the deployment of 2,500 Marines to Australia.

BEIJING (AFP) - Chinese and US defence officials opened military talks in Beijing on Wednesday after ties were strained by American arms sales to Taiwan and a planned US troop deployment in Australia.The talks, led by US undersecretary of defence for policy Michele Flournoy and her Chinese counterpart Ma Xiaotian, come a day after China's President Hu Jintao urged the navy to prepare for milita...

Anleger in Asien sind durch den Schritt der US-Ratingagentur Standard & Poor's verunsichert. Der Nikkei schließt mit 1,4 Prozent im Minus. Abwärts ging es auch an den Börsen in Hongkong, Taiwan und Shanghai.

Chia-Pin Chang tacked one title onto his name last January when he earned a doctoral degree in computer engineering from George Washington University. Seven months later he added yet another: chief technology officer. Along with a faculty mentor, the Taiwan native co-founded OptoBioSense after four years of developing a medical device that can quickly and cheaply measure the concentration of u...

Un arquitecto japonés gana el concurso del futuro rascacielos turístico de la isla con su Oasis del siglo XXI , una apuesta cien por cien sostenible.

If we were to give up Taiwan, in the way Paul Kane suggests, we might gain the whole world but forfeit our soul.

Cooperation with both countries to increase after WATEC 2011 conference on water, renewable energy and environmental control.

The Taiwan company has hot products and cheap stock. Why the shares could double.