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...Most opinion polls have Lai, the vice-president, leading with 33 to 40 per cent....
...Marco Lai, the chief executive of the Nasdaq-listed company, said he had thought about an advertising-based model and a subscription model to make money from Lizhi’s 52m listeners....
...Credit Suisse has appointed Joe Lai as a co-head of its China investment banking and capital markets unit, according to Bloomberg....
...“There’s a fear of Taiwan being hollowed out,” said Riyadh Lai, chief financial officer of Taiwanese chip designer Silicon Motion....
...However, Jenny Lai, head of Taiwan research at HSBC, noted in a recent report that Foxconn – which at one point was the sole assembler of iPhones – may no longer be the prime beneficiary of increased orders...
...“Lenovo didn’t sacrifice price to gain market share,” said Ricky Lai, an analyst at Guotai Junan International, a Hong Kong brokerage....
...“The biggest change in terms of Hon Hai in the course of last year is . . . its margin profile actually improved,” says Jenny Lai, head of Taiwan research for HSBC....
...The iPhone accounted for up to 30 per cent of its sales in the fourth quarter – a historic peak, said Jenny Lai of HSBC....
...HSBC’s Lai estimates that the pay raises could cost Hon Hai up to T$15bn a year....
...Jenny Lai, head of Taiwan research at HSBC, said that most investors are confident that Apple would be able to ensure its legal battles with Proview would not impact actual shipments....
...“The smaller economy of scale is likely to hurt [Hon Hai’s] profitability,” Ms Lai said....
...Analysts also expect other contract manufacturers, such as Taiwan’s Quanta, the world’s biggest PC assembler, and Hon Hai, best known for making Apple’s products, to follow suit, though neither company commented...
...Even Hon Hai, which makes Apple products and desktops for Dell, saw an 18 per cent decline....
...“Even though margins are low, [these companies] are used to the high volume, low margin business model, and the margins are at least higher than notebook manufacturing,” says Jenny Lai, analyst at CLSA....
...Jenny Lai, analyst at CLSA, says Hon Hai’s exposure to desktop PC sales, which accounted for 29 per cent of sales last year, has weighed on results....
...Lai Shin-yuan, Taiwan’s top China official, last week told lawmakers a comprehensive trade pact with China may not be signed even by this time next year....
...Vincent Lai used to eat hairy crabs every year, and could eat as many as four in one evening....
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