NEW YORK, Dec. 30, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — PrivCo has just released The PrivCo Asia 50: Ranking the Largest Private Companies in Asia by Revenue Report. PrivCo screened through its proprietary Private Company Financial Database with information on over 900,000+ private companies to rank the PrivCo Asia 50, the definitive ranking of the top 50 privately-held companies […]
Month: December 2016
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake jolted northeastern Taiwan at 8:30 a.m. on Friday, according to the Central Weather Bureau (CWB).The quake’s epicenter was located at sea about 29.1 kilometers east of Yilan County Hall at a depth of 75.4 km, bureau data show…
Taiwan shares closed up 100.41 points, or 1.10 percent, at 9,253.50 Friday on turnover of NT$56.18 billion (US$1.76 billion). Source: Focus Taiwan News Channel
Visitor arrivals from Australia, New Zealand and countries in Southeast and South Asia increased 23 percent year-on-year in November, a development that the Cabinet said Friday was a direct result of the government’s “New Southbound Policy.”Citing Tour…
Passengers will be allowed to travel free of cost on the new airport MRT line during the period of trial runs, Taoyuan Mayor Cheng Wen-tsan (???) said Friday.In the first two weeks of the one-month trial period, free passes will be given to people trav…
New shops in the Taipei property market are in short supply, as developers are tending to hold on to these properties in the hope that the scarce supply will continue to boost their pricing power, according to an analyst.Ho Shih-chang (???), a research…
The Executive Yuan has decided to postpone two planned public hearings on lifting a ban on imports of Japanese food products from four radiation-affected prefectures after one such hearing was disrupted by protesters last week.The public hearings on th…
Shares in Taiwan pulled back on Thursday with the weighted index falling below the 9,200 point mark again as investors responded to a fall of more than 100 points on the Dow Jones Industrial Average overnight, dealers said.The financial sector led the …
Terry Gou (???), founder and chairman of Taiwan-based manufacturing giant Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. (??), has raised his stake in the Sakai Display Products Corp. (SDP) — which he and Sharp Corp. jointly own — to more than 50 percent.In a statem…
President Tsai Ing-wen (???) said Wednesday that state-run companies should play a greater role in promoting the government’s New Southbound Policy and she also urged local governments to join the central government’s efforts in that regard.Although th…