Taipei - Taiwan plans to pick either US chipmaker Micron Technology Inc or Japan's Elpida Memory Inc to help upgrade its semiconductor industry, the Central News Agency (CNA) said Friday.
CNA quoted Economics Minister Yin Chi-ming as saying that Taiwan would unveil plans for the integration of its dynamic random access memory (DRAM) industry at the end of February and wants to pick a foreign chipmaker to merge with Taiwan semiconducter producers.
While Taiwan favours Micron and Elpida, a Micron-Elpida-Taiwan merger was unlikely because it would be time-consuming and too costly to merge the technologies of three countries, Yin told CNA.
Taipei - Taiwan plans to launch a campaign to attract Muslim tourists to visit the island, with the target of luring 2,000 Muslims annually in the initial years, a newspaper said Friday.
The Tourism Bureau will hold a seminar Friday to introduce the untapped market of Muslim tourists to Taiwan travel agents and to discuss strategies to attract Muslim tourists, the United Daily News said.
Taipei - Foot-and-mouth disease has broken out on two Taiwan hog farms, 12 years after the epidemic hit the island and shattered Taiwan's pork export markets, press reports said Thursday.
All major newspapers quoted the Council of Agriculture as saying that foot-and-mouth disease broke out earlier this month on hog farms in Changhwa County and in adjacent Yunlin County.
Taipei - Taiwan's economy shrank a record 8.36 per cent in the fourth quarter and was expected to contract 2.97 per cent this year, reflecting the battering the island is taking in the global economic downturn, a government agency said Wednesday.
The declines in the gross domestic product (GDP) was due mainly to the hit Taiwan's exports and industrial production has taken in the global slump and a resulting shrinking of domestic investments, the Directorate General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics said.
Taipei- The prime minister of the Pacific island of Tuvalu on Tuesday urged world leaders to fight global warming to save his nation from disappearing under the sea.
Prime Minister Apisai Ielemia, who is on an official visit to Taiwan, made the call while visiting a Taipei primary school and telling the school children the importance of protecting the environment.
Ielemia said that when he was small, he used to play on the beach which was large and beautiful. But the beach is becoming smaller as the sea level keeps rising. Tuvalu children now have little chance of playing on the beach, he said.
Taipei - Taiwan's stocks ended 2.17 per cent lower Tuesday, despite a government-initiated bailout move to save a financially troubled dynamic random access memory (DRAM) maker, dealers said.
The TAIEX stock index opened lower and extended its downward trend to close at 4,491.78, down 99.48 points or 2.17 per cent from Monday's trade.
Market dealers said investors were not optimistic about the prospect of DRAM companies even after a banking consortium agreed to lend 3 billion Taiwan dollars (87 million US dollars) to help improve the financial condition of struggling DRAM maker ProMOS.
Taipei - Taiwan plans to launch a campaign to attract Muslim tourists to visit the island, with the target of luring 2,000 Muslims annually in the initial years, a newspaper said Friday.
Taipei - Foot-and-mouth disease has broken out on two Taiwan hog farms, 12 years after the epidemic hit the island and shattered Taiwan's pork export markets, press reports said Thursday.
Taipei - Taiwan's economy shrank a record 8.36 per cent in the fourth quarter and was expected to contract 2.97 per cent this year, reflecting the battering the island is taking in the global economic downturn, a government agency said Wednesday.
Taipei- The prime minister of the Pacific island of Tuvalu on Tuesday urged world leaders to fight global warming to save his nation from disappearing under the sea.
Taipei - Taiwan's stocks ended 2.17 per cent lower Tuesday, despite a government-initiated bailout move to save a financially troubled dynamic random access memory (DRAM) maker, dealers said.
