Industry
Kenda Rubber Industrial
After moving production to China in 1988, Kenda quickly became the third largest bicycle tire maker in the world. Yet last year they moved their car tire production back to Taiwan. Given the higher costs, why did they insist on returning home?
Industry
From Container Port to Tourism Magnet
Decades ago, Keelung was the world's seventh biggest container port. Today, it aspires to become a tourism center, but the challenges are daunting. Can it succeed?
Industry
NT$17 trillion in new wealth was created in Taiwan's equity and property markets from 2006 to 2010, but very little of it was taxed, a not-so-subtle indication of how far Taiwan's tax system has gone awry.
International
Taiwanese Industry Returns from China
With China’s deteriorating investment climate, Taiwanese companies’ fever for their continental neighbor has cooled. More and more are packing up and coming home. But how can Taiwan attract the cream of the crop?
Insight
Labor Affairs Minister Wang Ju-hsuan
How should Taiwan entice enterprises that have moved abroad to come back home, while ensuring quality employment for Taiwanese workers? In the following exclusive interview, Wang Ju-hsuan, minister of the Council of Labor Affairs, tackles this thorny question.
Insight
Christina Liu and Lin Chuan
In exclusive interviews, two former finance ministers speak out on Taiwan's unbalanced tax policies, the daunting obstacles in the way of reform, and what is needed to cure the island's chronic revenue shortfalls.