In the month to January 15, the number of Taiwan’s workers who have been furloughed or put on unpaid leave fell 75 percent to 1,180 workers who are employed by 37 enterprises, down from 3,576 workers employed by 57 enterprises as compared to a month earlier, according to the Ministry of Labor. The ministry compiles such data every half month as an index of the island’s job market and a reflect...

Asustek Computer Inc., a globally known PC vendor, leads all Taiwanese companies in revenue generation across the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) economies with nine subsidiaries and branches there posting revenue of NT$390.5 billion (US$11.8 billion), according to China Credit Information Service, Ltd. (CCIS) of Taiwan. Trailing in No.2 and No.3 are BenQ Corp. (a Taiwanese make...

A new type of urban commuting or transportation vehicle was publicized recently in Taiwan by the island's Institute for Information Industry (III) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) of the U.S. The new vehicle, dubbed Persuasive Electric Vehicle (PEV), takes the form of an electric tricycle with a roof that protects a rider in foul weather, and will undergo trials for about one ye...

Mainly due to continual price drops of raw materials and related components to drive down cost of operating photovoltaic power systems, global market demand for such power generation systems is expected to continue to soar in the years to come, according to EnergyTrend, a Taiwanese market research firm focusing on the renewable energy segment. Despite the price rebounds of solar silicon wafers...

The Metal Industries Research & Development Centre (MIRDC), a Taiwanese government-funded R&D institute, has been honored as a winner of Japan’s Good Design Award 2015 for its Dental Surgical Template, which was lavished with praise amid the participants at the awards ceremony held in November, 2015. Defeating over 3,600 contending inventions, the Dental Surgical Template won primarily for exc...

Taiwan’s photovoltaic-product makers showed stellar revenue result in December 2015, with some reporting all-time highs and some of the others swinging to profitability from loss. Although Giga Solar Materials Corp., recognized as a leading provider in Taiwan of conductive paste applied in silicon solar cells, had to cut its average selling price on account of the steep fall of silver prices o...

Hon Hai Group of Taiwan, widely recognized as the world's biggest EMS (electronics manufacturing services) conglomerate, recently signed a cooperation agreement with Beijing Enterprises Group Company Ltd. (BEGCL) of China to jointly develop various businesses in China, including medical services, Smart City, smart geriatric care, etc. Among the targeted projects, a smart geriatric care center is ...

Thanks to growing R&D spending by Taiwan's enterprises along with continual price drops of raw materials, the overall value-added ratio by Taiwan’s manufacturing industries hit a 5-year zenith of 24.8 percent in 2014, slightly higher than the corresponding figure of 23.3 percent in S. Korea, according to the latest report issued by Directorate General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics (DGBAS) ...

Driven by an aggressive program towards product diversification partly due to thinning profit margins and decreasing market share of personal computers, Acer Inc. of Taiwan, a major global PC vendor, recently showcased its achievements in smart medical devices at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), held January 6-9 in Las Vegas, by teaming up with partners such as Omron, CoAsia, Revolve Robotics...

The European Commission has preliminarily ruled that 21 of the 23 Taiwanese makers shipping solar photovoltaic (PV) panels and cells to the continent do not circumvent duties, freeing them from the punitive tariff rate of 64.9 percent. The exempted manufacturers include Motech Industries Inc., Neo Solar Power Corp., Gintech Energy Corp., Apollo Solar Energy Co., Ltd., Solartech Energy Corp., S...