Coronavirus to Take Bite out of GDP - Can Taiwanese Companies Cope?
Optimism for 2020 has been seriously dampened by the arrival of the novel coronavirus epidemic. CommonWealth reporters talked to top Taiwanese businesses to find out how it will affect Taiwan’s economy and how they are responding.
Apple Supply Chain Disrupted by Novel Coronavirus, Expediting the Flight of Foreign Investment from China
“The US-China trade war has fired the first shot; the coronavirus fired the second.” The novel coronavirus is testing the adaptability of Taiwanese electronics manufacturers with production facilities in China. This is no longer a short-term question of when the assembly lines can get back to work, but rather a mid- to long-term one of how production capacities should be reorganized in the region.
Taiwan Linguists Learn to Code as Higher Education Enters Information Age
Students in humanities classes these days no longer just study books on theory, gazing instead at computer screens while pondering how to write the next line of code. Around 2013 top US universities started introducing Big Data to their social science institutes, and several humanities departments at National Taiwan University followed along with that trend. How has it impacted education in the humanities?