Economy

TSMC's founder Morris Chang and his wife Sophie attend a building dedication ceremony after the new management team decided to rename the company's headquarters in his honor. (Photo by Cheng Ting-fang)
Trade war

TSMC founder sees trade dispute as 'reality show with no script'

Morris Chang warns top chipmaker faces fierce competition and unpredictable conditions

11 July 2018
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2 July 2018
U.S. President Donald Trump, center, takes part in a groundbreaking with Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, left, and Foxconn Chairman Terry Gou at Foxconn's new site in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, on June 28.
Trade war

Trump hails Foxconn breaking ground on $10bn US plant

Apple supplier hints at more US investments to come

29 June 2018
A visitor plays Scrabble against a robot at the annual Computex technology show in Taipei on June 5.
Business trends

US tech companies return to Taiwan as China ties sour

Microsoft, Amazon and Google seek cutting-edge products for IoT

12 June 2018
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1 June 2018
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang speaking to reporters after the GPU Technology Conference in Taiwan.
Companies

China's tech advance cannot be slowed, says Nvidia CEO

Jensen Huang predicts driverless taxis will hit city streets in 2020

30 May 2018
Indonesian trainees harvest cabbages at a farm in Ibaraki Prefecture. (Photo by Ken Kobayashi)
The Big Story

Famous for its resistance to immigration, Japan opens its doors

Number of foreign workers doubles in five years as nation faces labor crisis

30 May 2018
A Taiwanese student, right, practices serving customers at a Lawson convenience store in Tokyo. (Photo by Ken Kobayashi)
The Big Story

Part-time saviors: Foreign students help plug Japan's labor gap

Convenience stores and delivery companies are among the biggest beneficiaries

30 May 2018
Pegatron has spent more than one year evaluating its investment in India, but the Taiwan technology company has not yet finalized the location for its first plant in the country.
17 May 2018
Yangtze Memory Technologies is building a $24 billion memory chip project in the Chinese city of Wuhan.
Asia300

Taiwan's Silicon Motion turns to China and 5G for future growth

CEO of key memory controls maker says mainland's chip projects do not threaten Samsung, Toshiba

10 May 2018
China is already the world's biggest semiconductor market, and Beijing seeks to make its chipmaking industry a more powerful contender.
10 May 2018
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10 May 2018
Higher minimum wages approved by Vietnam's government in 2017 will likely affect labor-intensive industries such as garment manufacturing.
10 May 2018
Containers at Rizhao Port in Shandong Province, China
Economy

Asian exports get boost from Trump tax cuts, IMF says

India and China will continue to drive global growth

9 May 2018
Higher minimum wages approved by Vietnam's government in 2017 will likely affect labor-intensive industries such as garment manufacturing.
Economy

Asian manufacturing expands in April but wage pressures grow

Job cuts followed pay rise in South Korea, PMI survey shows

9 May 2018
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International relations

China's power closing in on US, warns think tank

New Asia Power Index shows Japan and India lag behind in regional influence

8 May 2018
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8 May 2018
Pegatron has spent more than one year evaluating its investment in India, but the Taiwan technology company has not yet finalized the location for its first plant in the country.
Companies

IPhone assembler Pegatron enters India with non-Apple products

Taiwan tech company sees AI and automotive as next catalysts for growth

7 May 2018
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2 May 2018
Qingdao Movie Metropolis is meant to be the crown jewel of Chinese tycoon Wang Jianlin's empire.
Companies

Wanda opens $8bn 'Chinese Hollywood' with little star power

Group clings to vision of global film production hub despite debt pressure

30 April 2018
ZTE's offices in Beijing. Following a ban in the U.S., Taiwanese authorities have now blocked the island's companies from trading with ZTE.
Trade war

Taiwan tells companies to seek green light for trading with ZTE

Permits to be approved in three to five days if cleared

28 April 2018
General Electric's Jeffrey Immelt began reorganizing his company's supply chains, sensing a coming protectionist era as early as two years ago.
Opinion

US-China trade war threatens Asian supply chains

Rising protectionism endangers region's global manufacturing role

27 April 2018
U.S. companies provide nearly 30% of the components for ZTE's communications equipment.
26 April 2018
Nanya Technology is the world's No. 4 DRAM chipmaker after Samsung, SK Hynix and Micron.
Companies

China relentlessly poaching Taiwan chip talent: Nanya Tech

Memory chipmaker sees robust demand from data centers, DRAM prices high until Q3

17 April 2018
Japanese retailer Ryohin Keikaku reports its sales in China were not affected by the "problem map" incident.
Business trends

Chinese netizens look past politics in buying Japanese

Calls for boycotts fall on deaf ears as reputation for quality takes hold

17 April 2018