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TSMC, UMC report July sales, weakened by lagging demand Both foundries are bolstering for a rough Q3, as both expect sales to be lower than is seasonally expected. By Ann Steffora Mutschler, Senior Editor -- Electronic News, 8/8/2008 Hsinchu, Taiwan-based...

Taiwan will probe claims that its national baseball squad deliberately lost to China in last year's Olympics preliminary round in the latest twist of a match-fixing scandal...They questioned Richard Yang, a vice-president at the lottery-administrating Taipei Fubon Bank, who reportedly...

Taipei, Nov. 20 (CNA) President Ma Ying-jeou said Friday that he hopes for religious exchanges with China when he received a special envoy from Pope Benedict XVI. Jozef Cardinal Tomko, who arrived here Nov. 18, was in Taiwan to attend...

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...

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...

Mainland to push normalization of economic relations with Taiwan XI'AN�A Chinese mainland official on Taiwan affairs said here Thursday that the mainland would work actively for "normalization" of economic relations with Taiwan...The results show that signing the agreement would produce...

From Nov. 30, Taiwanese passport holders traveling to New Zealand for less than three months on business, as tourists, to visit friends or relatives or for short-term study, will no longer be required to apply for a visa before they...