Yen hits 15-year high vs dollar; Asian stocks tumble The Times Of India SINGAPORE: The yen struck a 15-year high against the dollar and a nine-year peak against the euro on Tuesday as investors and speculators tested the resolve of Japanese authorities to stem the yen's steady rise. | Despite Tuesday's gains, Japanese Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda declined to comment ...
Foreign Markets Wrap Insurance Newsnet | Most Asian markets ended lower Wednesday as concerns over the health of the U.S. economy weighed on sentiment, sending the yen to an eight-month high against the U.S. dollar and hitting shares of Japanese exporters as well as South Korean and Taiwanese technology stocks. Japan's Nikkei 225 Index d...
Cats Are Decayed Taiwanese Mining Town's 2nd Life The New York Times | Filed at 2:30 a.m. ET | HOUTONG, Taiwan (AP) -- A surfeit of cats is giving a second life to a decayed Taiwanese coal-mining town that last prospered in the 1970s. | Visitors' raves on local blogs have helped draw dozens of cat lovers to fondle, fr...
Taiwan "Savior" Says Lining up AIG Unit Bid ABC News | August 30, 2010 | TAIPEI (Reuters) - A former Taiwanese diplomat who says he wants to "save" American International Group's Taiwan unit from being bought by a Chinese firm is lining up a $2.5 billion bid with Japanese and Middle Eastern money. | Wa...
Asia Ends Higher Following Yen Drop Wall Street Journal By COLIN NG And PHILIP VAHN in SingaporeAnd V. PHANI KUMAR in Hong Kong | Most Asian stock markets ended higher Thursday, with Japanese technology exporters climbing on the yen's pullback from recent sharp gains, while Chinese coal shares gained on h...
Yen hits 15-year high vs dollar; Asian stocks tumble The Times Of India SINGAPORE: The yen struck a 15-year high against the dollar and a nine-year peak against the euro on Tuesday as investors and speculators tested the resolve of Japanese authorities to stem the yen's steady rise. | Despite Tuesday's gains, Japanese Fi...
Taiwan Regulator Proposes Allowing Insurers to Invest in China Insurance Newsnet | Taiwan's Financial Supervisory Commission said insurance companies will be allowed to invest their assets in China and China-related securities in Hong Kong in a bid to enhance Taiwanese insurers' investment flexibility. | The proposed revision of ...
Taiwan's Yulon Motor to launch joint venture in China m&c | Taipei - Taiwan's largest carmaker, Yulon Motor Co said Monday it received Beijing's approval to launch a joint venture in China to make and sell cars on the mainland. | 'Yulon has received approval from China's State Development and Reform Commiss...
Foreign Markets Wrap Insurance Newsnet | Most Asian markets ended lower Wednesday as concerns over the health of the U.S. economy weighed on sentiment, sending the yen to an eight-month high against the U.S. dollar and hitting shares of Japanese exporters as well as South Korean and Taiwanese technology stocks. Japan's Nikkei 225 Index dropped 258.20 points, or 2.7%, to 9,292.85, sendin...
Asia assesses prospects as world recovery stumbles Newsvine | — Talk of the global economic recovery fizzling doesn't faze Cho Byung-cheol, president of a small South Korean technology company that has already set up a branch in China and plans one soon in the United States. | The company, which designs and makes semiconductor-based high-speed data storage and processing equipment, is planning to boos...
