The Executive Yuan (the Cabinet) is scheduled to unveil the “flagship plan for tourism-industry development” next Thursday, which will call for the setup of an NT$30 billion tourism development fund and tapping the market of emerging-country tourists, such as those from China and Southeast Asia. The NT$30 billion fund will be raised by the Ministry [...]

Actively introducing Intel’s CULV (consumer ultra low voltage) platform, Taiwan-based Acer Inc., the third-largest notebook PC brand in the world now, is going to launch its newest notebook PCs available in different screen sizes and with CULV processors in April, according to company sources.Accordingly, Acer will contract Quanta Computer Inc. to roll out 11.6-inch CULV [...]

Asia Optical Co., one of Taiwan’s leading manufacturers of optical lens for digital still cameras, has announced its partnership with Flextronics International Inc., a major electronics manufacturer.Asia Optical said it would cooperate with Flextronics to develop DSCs and accessories by setting up a new company, aimed at expanding contract manufacturing for clients. Rumors are that [...]

After achieving success in contract production of the thin notebook computers “MacBook Air” for Apple Computer Inc. last year, Quanta Computer Inc., one of Taiwan’s leading contract manufacturers of NBs, has recently landed orders from Dell Computer Inc. for the “Adamo” NBs, the world’s thinnest.Dell priced the “Adamo” thin NBs at US$1,999 per unit and [...]

Chunghwa Telecom Co., Ltd. recently signed an agreement with Warner Music Taiwan and Warner’s pop diva Jolin Tsai to make inroads into digital music market. S.T. Chang, president of Taiwan’s No.1 telecom carrier, said his company would become Taiwan’s biggest distribution channel of digital music, which is available on the Internet, with subscribers connected to [...]

With a recovery in consumer demand, Taiwanese display panel makers, including AU Optronics Corp., Chi Mei Optoelectronics Corp., Chunghwa Picture Tubes Ltd., and Innolux Display Corp., all enjoy an influx of rush orders for LCD (liquid crystal display) panels from LCD TV makers in Europe and the U.S., according to industry sources.Besides, in line with [...]

> Taipei, March 30 (CNA) A potential free trade agreement (FTA) between the United States and Taiwan would have no direct link to Taiwan’s proposed economic cooperation framework agreement (ECFA) with China, according to a senior U.S. official in Taipei. The statement by Robert Wang, deputy director of the American Institute in Taiwan (AIT) Taipei [...]

A special budget for the government’s stimulus package and an amendment to the Local Government Act (地方制度法) will be high on the agenda when the Legislature’s new session starts on Tuesday. Last year the government proposed an economic stimulus package budget of NT$150.6 billion to be used this year to expand public infrastructure projects, but [...]

Opposition Democratic Progressive Party Chairperson Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) predicted on Sunday that the number of unemployed in the nation may hit a record high of 1.3 million in June if the government does not come up with effective policies. “The latest official number is 600,000 unemployed as of last month and that number is likely [...]

Taiwan Friends of Tibet chairwoman Chow Mei-li (周美里) on Sunday accused the World Buddhist Forum of politically interfering in religion by refusing to invite the Dalai Lama to the forum because China considers the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader to be a “separatist.” “We are shocked by the fact that World Buddhist Forum refused to invite [...]