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Google and Facebook should pay taxes for the advertising revenue they earn from using content produced by Taiwanese news outlets, media experts told an online news conference yesterday. The government should also investigate if news media have bargained on unequal terms with these large international platforms, they said, adding that it should ask them to offer a reasonable amount of funding to support the creation of quality news content. Google and Facebook collect about 80 percent of Taiwan’s digital advertising revenue, causing local media outlets to lose more revenue than their counter...

Power unit supplier Delta Electronics Inc’s (台達電) profits fell to its lowest levels in about six quarters in the three-month period to Sept. 30, attributable to high component prices and a production slowdown on key parts shortages. Net profits dropped 24 percent year-on-year to NT$6.37 billion (US$228.97 million) last quarter compared with NT$8.39 billion in the third quarter last year, a quarterly decline of 16 percent from NT$7.59 billion. That translated into earnings per share (EPS) of NT$2.45 last quarter, down from NT$3.23 in the third quarter last year, and from NT$2.92 in the ...

Taipei, May 24 (CNA) The Ministry of Culture (MOC) has designated two traditional Indigenous weaving techniques as intangible cultural heritage and will draft plans for the preservation.