Taiwan Business News

These are companies in vastly different industries, from ketchup to mall haunt, from high-tech to oilfield services. A healthy cross-section of sectors is still smarting these days...The9 was growing quickly in China's booming online-gaming industry until it lost a major...

On Thursday Brazil, which surprised the markets a month ago by imposing a 2 per cent tax on the inflow of money destined for financial assets, said it would further tighten those restrictions. The finance ministry imposed a new 1.5...

Taiwan's economics ministry denied a newspaper report that it rejected an application submitted by a group led by Primus Financial Holdings Ltd. to buy the local unit of American International Group Inc. The ministry on Nov. 13 asked for additional...

The news that a Hong Kong-based financial group reportedly sold 30 percent of its recently acquired stake in Nan Shan Life Insurance Co., Ltd. to Chinatrust Financial Holding would complicate a government review, a Cabinet official said Wednesday.

Taiwan's stock exchange for announcing a NT$177 billion (US$5.5 billion) takeover by Innolux Display Corp. a day after denying it was in merger talks. The exchange is examining whether the company misled investors, spokesman Stanley Chu said by phone yesterday....

U.S. and Chinese Presidents Barack Obama and Hu Jintao announced Tuesday a package of measures designed to strengthen U.S.-Chinese cooperation on clean energy. Hu said the two countries' corresponding officials signed agreements to enhance "cooperation on climate change, energy and...

Leading Taiwanese flat-panel monitor maker Innolux Display Corp. said yesterday it would acquire Chi Mei through a stock swap worth US$5.38 billion , in a bid to boost its global clout. Innolux, an affiliate of Hon Hai Precision Industry Co.,...

Hong Kong-based Primus Financial Holdings is buying Nan Shan Life Insurance Co. Ltd., Taiwan’s second-largest life insurer, from American International Group for US$2.15 billion (NT$69.3 billion), the companies announced Tuesday. Primus denied it had any links to China, saying it...

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