Nigeria imports $20bn machineries, others from Taiwan annually dailytrust.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from dailytrust.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Beijing has done irreparable damage to Hong Kong after freezing top media mogul s assets
Johnny Patterson is the Policy Director of Hong Kong Watch
Seven prominent democratic figures, including Apple Daily founder Jimmy Lai, former lawmaker and barrister Martin Lee and Margaret Ng, were convicted of unauthorized assembly in relation to a peaceful protest on August 18, 2019. (Photo by Anthony Kwan/Getty Images)
On Friday, the owner of Hong Kong’s biggest pro-democracy newspaper had his assets, amounting to HKD$500 million, frozen.
Mr Lai was already facing trumped up charges under the National Security Law, but this step is the biggest blow to date for press freedoms and puts the long-run viability of his newspaper, Apple Daily, into question. It ushers in a new era: one where previously inviolable property rights are up for grabs. While arrests naturally garner headlines, it is government decisions like this one which are most likely to catalyse capital flight
TSMC to build world s first exclusive water plant, won t shift chip production to China gizmochina.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from gizmochina.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
20 Jan 2021
A Taiwanese lawmaker has called for an official probe into the sale of Chinese-made karaoke machines sold in Taiwan that play Chinese “propaganda songs,” the
Taipei Timesreported on Tuesday.
Legislator Chen Ting-fei said on Monday “she was approached by a person who had discovered Chinese patriotic songs such as My Motherland which is commonly referred to as China’s ‘second national anthem’ in Chinese-made karaoke devices sold in Taiwan,” according to the newspaper.
“The machines are popular, as they can connect to the Internet, providing access to thousands of songs,” Chen, a member of Taiwan’s ruling Democratic Progressive Party, said.
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Entegris Makes Major Investment in New Manufacturing Facility in Taiwan
December 21, 2020 GMT
Entegris to expand manufacturing capacity in Taiwan (Photo: Entegris)
BILLERICA, Mass. (BUSINESS WIRE) Dec 20, 2020
Entegris, Inc. (NASDAQ: ENTG), a world-class supplier of advanced materials and process solutions for the semiconductor and other high-technology industries, today announced that the company is expanding its manufacturing presence in Taiwan with an investment of approximately $200 million over the next three to five years.
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Entegris to expand manufacturing capacity in Taiwan (Photo: Entegris)
Entegris plans to commence construction of the new facility in early 2021 and expects to begin initial operations in late 2021 as it ramps to full production in subsequent phases. Located in Southern Taiwan’s Kaohsiung Science Park, the new, 27,000 square-meter facility wil