If one’s love of country can be measured in terms of struggle to gain citizenship, then TC Locke should be counted among Taiwan’s most ardent supporters. The Florida native and current member of acclaimed blues band The Muddy Basin Ramblers came to Taiwan in 1989 as an exchange student at Tunghai University in Taichung and…
When Taipei mayor Ko Wen-je casually referred to foreign brides in Taiwan as having been “imported,” his words struck a nerve with the some 600,000 foreign spouses living in Taiwan. Several groups including the Trans-Asia Sisters Association loudly protested the mayor’s wording, and the matter took several days to die down. Ko has a history…
Taiwan is making an effort to attract more international students – and hopes that growing numbers of them will stay on to join the workforce after graduation. Despite being only a Tier II team, the soccer squad at National Pingtung University of Science and Technology (NPUST) regularly defeats some of Taiwan’s top-division university teams. But…
Quincy Davis III may not look like a typical Taiwanese, but the 6’8” former Tulane University basketball star is in fact a citizen of the Republic of China. In June 2013, the Los Angeles-born, Mobile, Alabama-raised Davis gave up his U.S. citizenship to accept ROC nationality, enabling him to play on the Chinese Taipei national…
The relocation services industry oils the wheels of an increasingly globalized and migratory world and has had to transform itself as times have changed. Take a look at the relocation services industry in Taiwan and you can see writ large the effects of government policy, economic forces, and global mobility trends. The changing job description…
The Taiwan Stock Exchange Corp. is taking steps to improve board governance among listed companies. Cooking oil scandals, chemical pipeline explosions, pollution exposés – a common thread runs through these headline-grabbing incidents in Taiwan in 2014. Beyond the lamentable suffering and social costs, they represent avoidable destruction of shareholder value that could have been mitigated…
The smartphone maker is diversifying its product lineup in an effort to reverse its fortunes. By Tim Ferry with Philip Liu Taiwan’s leading smartphone brand HTC last November launched its first own-brand, non-smartphone or tablet product: the Re, a mini still and video camera. Resembling a periscope, the L-shaped camera with one-button activation is aimed…
For years, the regulatory and funding environment in Taiwan was not conducive to fostering new startup enterprises. Many would-be Taiwanese entrepreneurs headed for Silicon Valley or other locations instead. But lately the situation has changed, in part because of government recognition that Taiwan was losing economic opportunities by not doing enough to encourage entrepreneurial initiative….
The rising stars in the Taiwanese startup scene are an eclectic mix of young tech firms, spanning the restaurant, retail, media, and education sectors. The one thing they have in common is a global distribution plan. Roam & Wander Imagine a kid’s tea party – and then make that experience more real with smart toys….
The GMP system is designed to bring sufficient expertise to the certification process. Elden Cheng, vice president in charge of production for leading Taiwan tofu-maker Brothers Farm Foods Co., hardly looks forward to the annual Costco audit his company must endure to keep its products on Costco’s shelves. The process takes at least a day…
