Importantly, more reliable export figures from South Korea and Taiwan indicate little in the way of recovery.
Executives in Taiwan take so little holiday (eight days a year) that it is a wonder they found time to answer Grant Thornton's questionnaire.
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Gone are the days when Taiwan saw China as little more than a place to make shoes and toys.
Taiwan students learn a little about the classics, mainly in junior high, but Lin and others believe it is too little, too late.
Then there was the time he returned from a work trip in Taiwan with a cute little gift for me, and a really awesome gift for the baby -- a plush, pink pig toy that I immediately wished was mine.
By 1999 when the party needed to decide whom to nominate for president and vice president, Lee quashed Soong's supporters within the party -- a significant faction -- and selected little-known Vincent Siew, Taiwan's new premier, to be Lien's running mate.
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However, barring egregious provocation of China by Taiwan, America would have little choice but to intervene.
For President Ma Ying-jeou of Taiwan, the outcome will be little surprise and no great blow.
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But it has little doubt that a formal separation from China by Taiwan could mean war.
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Earthquakes frequently rattle Taiwan, but most are minor and cause little or no damage.
But the nature of American politics, and, in the case of arming Taiwan, American law, gives American presidents little practical option but to aggravate China on these issues.
Science editor Alan Boyle's blog: The gang at Taiwan's Next Media Animation is having a little fun with a Harvard geneticist's recent comments about the prospects for cloning a Neanderthal baby.
He also said he saw little chance of a break in the Taipei-Beijing stalemate until Taiwan's leadership changed.
Though Shih grew up in Lukang, a town in Taiwan's breadbasket county of Changhua, he had little exposure to farming.
Other schemes have fared little better, including one for company pensions which is routinely ignored by Taiwan's myriad small businesses.
In fact, for all the dashing around the region by Taiwan's officials and businessmen in recent weeks, very little money has changed hands.
Regionally, China has flexed its muscles a little more, with a military build-up along the coast facing Taiwan, though its response to strengthened American military ties with Taiwan has been low-key.
And Taiwan introduced the world to Bubble Tea, a sweet milky beverage containing little pearls of tapioca.
Adding a little more weight to rumours have been around for almost a year now: a report from Taiwan suggests Amazon really is prepping a smartphone for launch in mid-2013.
The new chips, highlighted at a big electronics tradeshow in Taiwan, represent the best effort by Intel engineers to walk the design line between a chip that uses little power and one that is powerful enough to keep users happy, especially those watching videos.
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