The big foundry, TSMC, based in Taiwan, also raised its cap-ex budget, along with the big Korean chip maker, Samsung.
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Quanta is a major manufacturer based in Taiwan and coincidentally is also the device manufacturing partner of Amazon, which makes the new Kindle Fire tablets that recently launched.
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Based in Taiwan, HTC over the last few years has transformed itself from a contract manufacturer building phones for others into a branded player that has had success selling both Android- and Windows-based phones.
In a statement, the Taiwan-based manufacturer acknowledged that some students who took part in its summer internship programme were below China's minimum legal working age of 16.
In March, for example, a Taiwan-based group called "God Saves the Earth Flying Saucer Foundation" emerged in suburban Texas, declaring that the almighty would provide spaceships to rescue followers from a nuclear holocaust.
And our policy towards Taiwan is based on the Taiwan Relations Act, and there is no change in that.
The Netherlands' ABN Amro bought Bank of America's retail operations in India, Singapore and Taiwan, expanded in Indonesia and acquired Bangkok-based Bank of Asia.
Currently there are thousands of missiles based in the province whose only target is Taiwan.
In particular, the Taiwan-based company has been working to address the challenges of making displays more power-efficient and working with chip manufacturers to strip down their products.
Lei Jun, the billionaire entrepreneur who cofounded Xiaomi in 2010 with a former Microsoft executive, also took the opportunity to announce that Android-based smartphones were going on sale in Hong Kong and Taiwan, the first overseas foray for the closely-held company, which sold 7.1 million phones in 2012.
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The Lancet study, based on a review of more than 400, 000 people in Taiwan, showed 15 minutes per day or 90 minutes per week of moderate exercise, such as brisk walking, can add three years to your life.
The story notes that Foxconn chairman Terry Guo noted at a recent event that the company is planning a training program for U.S.-based engineers, bringing them to Taiwan or China to take part in the processes of product design and manufacturing.
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The Taiwan-based PC giant, which recently replaced its Chief Executive in a dispute over its mobile device strategy, also wants to be a leader in tablets.
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Mr. Zhi said substandard products or problems with product quality wouldn't be allowed to disrupt public order in the city, adding that electronics companies and especially Taiwan-based firms are important to Chongqing.
Nokia has filed a series of lawsuits against two rival handset makers, Taiwan-based HTC and Blackberry-maker RIM, which has its HQ in Canada.
The Taiwan-based company contends there is still a healthy market for netbooks, even in countries like the U.S. that have enthusiastically adopted iPads and other tablets.
Taiwan-based component makers are less enthused, staying conservative about their notebook sales estimates in the coming months.
HTC, the Taiwan-based smartphone maker behind the Nexus One, has said the experience paid dividends in other ways, such as burnishing its brand and introducing new technologies that could be used in other phones.
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Hu Jia, the prominent rights activist based in Beijing, told the BBC the couple had travelled to the US in early December 2012 from Taiwan, having obtained help from US diplomats, including verification that they had faced political persecution in China.
The France-based company also was the first major international chain to establish a presence in Asia, through a joint venture in Taiwan in 1989.
Taiwan-based supply chain makers are hopeful that sales will pick up after Intel launches the Haswell platform in June.
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