Taiwan’s AU Optronics to build three bln dlr China plant (AFP via Yahoo! News)
AU Optronics, a leading Taiwanese flat screen manufacturer, said Monday it plans to spend three billion US dollars building a new plant in China as it looks to tap into the huge mainland market.
Taiwan LCD Giant Plans Big China Factory as Rules Ease (PC World via Yahoo! News)
AU Optronics became the first major Taiwanese LCD screen maker to apply to the Taiwan government to build an advanced LCD factory in China under regulations that were eased last month.
WTO puts off Thailand-Philippines cigarette tax row verdict (ABS-CBNNEWS.com)
MANILA, Philippines – The World Trade Organization pushed back its verdict on the cigarette tax row between the Thailand and the Philippines.
Politics › Japan, S Korea to join forces in opposing bluefin tuna trade ban (Japan Today)
Japanese Senior Vice Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Masahiko Yamada and South Korean vice farm minister Ha Young Je agreed here Monday for Japan…
Philippine police suspect personal grudge in killing of radio broadcaster (Canoe Money)
MANILA, Philippines – A broadcaster has been found bludgeoned to death inside his radio station in the Philippines – a country considered one of the most dangerous for media workers, police said Monday.
For Philippine Family in Politics, Land Issue Hits Home (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
HACIENDA LUISITA, the Philippines — Like his father before him, Buenaventura Calaquian worked the sugar cane fields at Hacienda Luisita, a plantation owned by the family of former President Corazon C. Aquino.
Taiwan’s AU Optronics to build three bln dlr China plant (Sydney Morning Herald)
AU Optronics, a leading Taiwanese flat screen manufacturer, said Monday it plans to spend three billion US US dollars building a new plant in China as it looks to tap into the huge mainland market.
San Miguel eyes Philippine airport project-sources (Reuters via Yahoo! Philippines News)
MANILA, March 15 (Reuters) – Philippine food-to-infrastructure conglomerate San Miguel Corp will take a majority interest in an airport upgrade project and commercial venture worth up to 12.5 billion pesos ($275 million), sources said on Monday.
Taiwan says it won’t loan half of famous painting to China (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Taiwan’s national museum on Monday said it would not lend its half of a famous ancient painting to China for an exhibition because it feared it would not be returned.
