Consumer electronics dominate Taiwan Excellence awards

Consumer electronics dominate Taiwan Excellence awards
Tsai Ing-wen objects to handling of complaint against VP
Philippines asks Taiwan to revoke fraudsters' passports
Foxconn makes 3m iPhone 5s, but Apple needs more for launch
Hong Kong ranked leading financial center for Greater China
Foxconn raises pay to secure workforce before peak season
A cut-off finger does not reduce Hubei man's theft sentence
Walmart slows down expansion in Chinese market
Growth of used car sales soars in China
2,000-year-old tombs reveal secrets of ancient Tibetan kingdom
Lien-Hu meeting planned for APEC summit in Vladivostock
Hunan party chief Zhou Qiang tipped for Chongqing seat
Not sporting: International brands squeeze Li Ning in home market
2 Year-old Falls off Motorbike, Narrowly Escapes Death
Chinese steel mills take advantage of lull to do maintenance
India may join trade probes against Chinese solar companies
China welcomes DPP visits under certain conditions: Wang Yi
Mengniu admits selling 5,000 boxes of expired milk in Zhejiang
CNOOC's acquisition of Nexen soured by insider trading charges
Senior Taipei police officers arrested for casino racket

Consumer electronics dominate Taiwan Excellence awards

Posted: 25 Aug 2012 05:18 AM PDT

Nearly half the winners at the 20th Taiwan Excellence gold award ceremony were consumer electronics, said the Taiwan External Trade Development Council on Friday. Four of the 10 gold award winners we...

Tsai Ing-wen objects to handling of complaint against VP

Posted: 25 Aug 2012 05:10 AM PDT

Tsai Ing-wen, former chairwoman of Taiwan's opposition Democratic Progressive Party, protested Friday the decision to refer her complaint against the vice president to a district prosecutors office. ...

Philippines asks Taiwan to revoke fraudsters' passports

Posted: 25 Aug 2012 05:10 AM PDT

Authorities in the Philippines have asked Taiwan and China to help revoke the passports of members of the largest telecom fraud ring apprehended in the Southeast Asian country's history, ranking polic...

Foxconn makes 3m iPhone 5s, but Apple needs more for launch

Posted: 25 Aug 2012 04:54 AM PDT

Foxconn, the chief contract manufacturer for Apple's iPhone and iPad, has produced around three million of the new iPhone 5 for its expected launch date in September. However, Apple reportedly needs d...

Hong Kong ranked leading financial center for Greater China

Posted: 25 Aug 2012 04:38 AM PDT

Hong Kong was ranked the foremost financial center in Greater China, and fourth in the world, in an index released Thursday in Shanghai. Shanghai itself was in sixth place, while Beijing ranked 11th...

Foxconn raises pay to secure workforce before peak season

Posted: 25 Aug 2012 04:34 AM PDT

Foxconn's factory in Zhengzhou, the capital of central China's Henan province, has announced that it will raise the wages of its 150,000 workers in August and give out bonuses to prevent workers from ...

A cut-off finger does not reduce Hubei man's theft sentence

Posted: 25 Aug 2012 04:30 AM PDT

A 22-year-old man working for a special delivery house chopped off his finger with the intention of postponing the fine he had to pay to the company for stealing a parcel. His actions just did not cut...

Walmart slows down expansion in Chinese market

Posted: 25 Aug 2012 04:30 AM PDT

Walmart, the world's leading retailer, is to slow down the rate of opening new stores in China in 2012 and focus more on operational efficiency to lift its revenues. Other international retailers oper...

Growth of used car sales soars in China

Posted: 25 Aug 2012 04:30 AM PDT

At a time when sales of new cars in China have slackened, partly due to the restriction on new car purchase in first-tier cities, secondhand car sales have provided important momentum for the expansio...

2,000-year-old tombs reveal secrets of ancient Tibetan kingdom

Posted: 25 Aug 2012 04:22 AM PDT

Four tombs recently unearthed in Tibet are believed to contain relics from an ancient Tibetan kingdom that thrived more than 2,000 years ago. The tombs, found in Gar county of Ngari prefecture in the...

Lien-Hu meeting planned for APEC summit in Vladivostock

Posted: 25 Aug 2012 04:18 AM PDT

Arrangements are being made for Lien Chan, honorary chairman of Taiwan's ruling Kuomintang, to hold talks with China's president, Hu Jintao, on the sidelines of the 2012 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperat...

Hunan party chief Zhou Qiang tipped for Chongqing seat

Posted: 25 Aug 2012 03:30 AM PDT

Zhou Qiang, a rising star in Chinese politics who is currently the party secretary of the south-central province of Hunan province, has been tipped to replace Zhang Dejiang, the party chief of Chongqi...

Not sporting: International brands squeeze Li Ning in home market

Posted: 25 Aug 2012 03:26 AM PDT

Li Ning, a major sponsor of the Chinese national team at the London Olympics and a leading sporting goods brand in China, raked in net profit of only 44 million yuan (US$6.9 million) in the first half...

2 Year-old Falls off Motorbike, Narrowly Escapes Death

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 02:10 PM PDT

A little girl falls from the motorcycle at a stop-light and barely misses being run over by a car.

Chinese steel mills take advantage of lull to do maintenance

Posted: 25 Aug 2012 02:18 AM PDT

Tumbling prices, slimming profits and high inventories have forced more Chinese steel mills to reduce production by undertaking equipment maintenance. More than a dozen giant and medium-sized steelmak...

India may join trade probes against Chinese solar companies