... Hong Kong Island at around 10:20 a.m. on Wednesday. He sustained six stab wounds and was brought to a hospital in critical condition, according to Hong Kong police. The suspect fled on a motorcycle wi ...More
EJ Insight2014-02-27
Taiwan's China Airlines Ltd. and Eva Airways Corp. called on Chinese regulators to allow mainland air travelers to take flight transfers on the island for travel to the United States, Europe and South ...More
EJ Insight2014-02-20
Taiwan's Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) rolled out five measures Wednesday to help the island's brokerages to expand their business in Asia, Economic Daily News reported Thursday. The measures ...More
EJ Insight2014-02-20
Taiwan's national debt reached a record NT$5.46 trillion (US$180.5 billion) in January, nearly 37 percent of the island's annual gross domestic product. That was equal to NT$234,000 for each member of ...More
EJ Insight2014-02-20
... iting the island's Directorate General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics. The statistics administration also said Tuesday that it believes export growth this year could be 3.3 percent, against an e ...More
EJ Insight2014-02-19
... that the island is a genuine democracy. Meanwhile, trust needs to be developed between the two sides. Taiwan, to ensure its economic survival, is seeking participation in regional trade bodies such a ...More
EJ Insight2014-02-19
Taikang Life Insurance Corp. Ltd. will invest 759 million yuan (US$125.145 million) to buy a 230-mu (15.33 hectares) land plot in Hainan province's Sanya island to build a high-end elderly home, marki ...More
EJ Insight2014-02-18
A number of development projects at Hangzhou's Qiandao Lake (Thousand Island Lake), previously suspended to preserve the tourist spot's fragile ecosystem, have reportedly resumed construction, prompti ...More
EJ Insight2014-02-17
... ds in the island may be adjusted, Tseng was quoted as saying. He said Taiwanese firms operating in the mainland are keen to sell baodao bonds. Meanwhile, a secondary market will be created for general ...More
EJ Insight2014-02-12
... he entire island, only 17.8 percent of young people had bought their own homes. What explains this disconnect between the incomes of the majority and rising property prices? Taiwan has one of the worl ...More
EJ Insight2014-02-12
GE Capital and a unit of US hedge-fund firm SAC Capital Advisors LP agreed to sell their majority stake in a small Taiwanese bank, Cosmos Bank, to the island's China Development Financial Holding Co. ...More
EJ Insight2014-02-11
... Niue, an island country in the South Pacific Ocean. But Chinese passport holders may still find it impossible to visit some of these countries genuinely visa-free: Andorra, for instance, requires no ...More
EJ Insight2014-02-10
Taiwan plans to raise the daily quota for individual mainland tourists by 1,000 to 4,000 from April, United Daily News reported Friday, citing the island's tourism bureau. Also, the maximum allowable ...More
EJ Insight2014-02-07
Easing of restrictions on Taiwan financial institutions' offshore banking units (OBUs), which was announced by the island's Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) recently, will help overseas capital ...More
EJ Insight2014-02-06
Malaysian budget carrier AirAsia Bhd. is close to announcing a startup that will link the Indonesian island resort of Bali with Hong Kong, Australia and Japan, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesd ...More
EJ Insight2014-02-06
When a South Korean graduates from university, his starting salary is, on average, 2.6 times higher than that of a graduate in Taiwan. The average salary on the island is the same as it was in 1997. T ...More
EJ Insight2014-02-03
... back the island and seek reunification, and strident anti-China voices in Taiwan, there is still a deep thread of antagonism between the two sides. Wang's visit to China has, in fact, been a hot d ...More
EJ Insight2014-01-29
... th Korea) islands integral parts of the Japanese territory, Kyodo news agency reported Tuesday. The move, which came ahead of the scheduled revision of teaching manuals in 2016, is expected to invite ...More
EJ Insight2014-01-28
Since Ma Ying-jeou became president of Taiwan in May 2008, he has brought economic and social ties with the mainland closer than at any time since 1949. But, while the island's economy increasingly de ...More
EJ Insight2014-01-27
Mainland investment in Taiwan rose 10 percent to US$360 million in 2013 from a year earlier, United Daily News reported Tuesday, citing the island's Ministry of Economic Affairs. The island gave mainl ...More
EJ Insight2014-01-21
