Stay updated with breaking news from Yuan Electronics. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
Taiwanese officials are fretting about whether a severe outbreak of Covid-19 could jeopardize the island's critical role in the global semiconductor supply chain. But there's another threat to the industry that experts worry may have even more drastic consequences: the climate crisis.
Taiwanese rights advocates yesterday urged authorities to revoke a “discriminatory” ban on migrant workers going outside after a COVID-19 outbreak spread to the nation’s technology sector. The Miaoli County Government this week imposed a stay indoors order on all migrant workers unless they were explicitly commuting to work. The order came after four electronics companies reported clusters among their workforce, which includes many low-paid migrants from nearby countries such as Indonesia, Vietnam and the Philippines. “Taiwanese can go out as long as they wear masks, but migrant worker...
The Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) yesterday ordered the suspension of work at an electronics company where a cluster of 182 COVID-19 infections was reported. It also ordered all migrant workers at the firm to enter home isolation. King Yuan Electronics, a chip testing and packaging service provider based in Hsinchu City that employs many migrant workers at its two factories in Miaoli County, last week conducted rapid COVID-19 tests on all of its more than 7,000 employees after several migrant workers tested positive. The CECC yesterday said that 182 confirmed cases — including 24 Ta...
Effective immediately, migrant workers are temporarily banned from changing employers, and employers are temporarily banned from moving migrant workers between factories as long as the level 3 COVID-19 alert remains in place, the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) said yesterday. King Yuan Electronics (京元電子) on Thursday began conducting rapid COVID-19 tests on all of its about 7,300 employees after a cluster infection was confirmed among migrant workers at its manufacturing campus in Miaoli County. King Yuan is a chip testing and packaging service provider based in Hsinchu City. I...
As if the current global chip shortage wasn’t already a nightmare, one of the largest Taiwanese semiconductor manufacturers has announced that two of its sites would be taken offline temporarily due to an increase in the number of confirmed cases with the new coronavirus.