Hints and tips:
...When top chip companies, from Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) to Qualcomm, want to know what ails their integrated circuits, they call Dr Hsieh Yong-Fen....
...Samsung was forced to cut production at one of its consumer electronics factories in Ho Chi Minh City earlier this month while its smartphone production was also disrupted....
...“AirAsia at its height . . . arguably was south-east Asia’s largest low-cost carrier,” said Paul Yong, an analyst at DBS....
...Cathay had about HK$25bn (US$3.2bn) in cash, Mr Yong said....
...Chen Chi-mai, deputy premier, told the Financial Times that Taiwan was pursuing a “balance” between epidemic prevention and protecting people’s livelihoods....
...Under the stewardship of curator Robin Peckham, who has joined founder Magnus Renfrew as co-director, an off-site public programme organised with the leading Taiwanese intellectual Chang Tieh-Chi will feature...
...They will all suffer if the trade spat drags on,” said Eom Chi-sung, a director at the Federation of Korean Industries....
...Hana says minimum monthly wages for factory workers there in 2014 were just $63.8, lower than the $95.8 in Vietnam (Ho Chi Minh City) and $194 in China (Qingdao)....
...With an eye to bolstering its competitiveness in connected cars, Hyundai promoted the group’s chief innovation officer Chi Youngcho, a former Samsung executive, to president....
...Ri Yong Ho, the North Korean foreign minister, is expected to meet Vietnamese government officials and others to study the results of the Doi Moi (“renovation”) reforms that from 1986 lifted the country...
...Mathew Daniel, international vice-president at Netease Cloud Music, pinpoints social media’s role in the way the music industry has evolved....
...The style of funerals has changed, said Chan Chi-chun, an expert on Taoist funeral music, who added that the form has simplified and the “duration of the ritual is getting shorter”....
...A broader dynamic range likewise elevated Southern Wind by Chong Kee Yong from Malaysia....
...Nikkei staff writers Justina Lee in Singapore, Erwida Maulia in Jakarta, Kim Dung Tong in Ho Chi Minh City and Cliff Venzon in Manila contributed to this article....
...But Choi Chi-hun, Samsung C&T’s co-chief executive, argued that shareholders would benefit from synergies with Cheil, which has businesses ranging from construction to fashion and theme parks....
...Chang Yong Ter, a 46-year-old architect in Singapore, says he is delighted just to make the shortlist for the competition, now in its eighth year....
...strategic investors remain on the sidelines due to the uncertain economic outlook while foreign funds are looking at faster-growing neighbours such as China for more profitable, bigger deals,” says Park Yong-rin...
...In the Pan Yong Tai Cotton Shop, founded in 1898, an old couple are busily weaving before a watching crowd, with noses pressed against the window....
...The listing is a victory for Chi Shive, chairman of the Taiwan Stock Exchange. Mr Shive, like many of his regional competitors, has tried hard in the past year to attract foreign listings....
...It set up a branch in Ho Chi Mihn City, Vietnam, in 2008 and has an office in Hanoi. IBK is also looking at entering Burma and Cambodia....
...In a different way, Made in China in the Grand Hyatt in Beijing is helping to reinvigorate the city’s culinary traditions, under the stewardship of executive chef Jack Aw Yong and his chefs du cuisine Nick...
...In Thailand on Tuesday Yong Chanhthalansy, a Laotian foreign ministry spokesman, expressed jubilation at the arrest of Vientiane’s long-time nemesis....
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