Tainan related news updates

Salary cuts increase in electronics industry
China Post, Taiwan - 4 hours ago
The United Evening News has observed that traffic jams no longer occur during rush hour at Taiwan’s three science parks in Hsinchu, Taichung and Tainan. ...

Exercise Keeps the Brain Young
U.S. News & World Report, DC - 11 hours ago
... an associate professor in the Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy at the National Cheng Kung University Medical College in Tainan. ...

Corning to lay off 200 contract workers worldwide and 85 employees ...
DigiTimes, Taiwan - 20 hours ago
But Corning said the company will only discontinue contract workers at its Taichung and Tainan facilities in Taiwan, and in Japan as well. ...

Chi Mei may sell up to NT$4 billion of bonds
China Post, Taiwan - 23 hours ago
Chi Mei will use the proceeds to pay short-term debt and boost working capital, the Tainan-based company said in an exchange filing yesterday.

Chen Shui-bian: The newsiest ex-president
China Post, Taiwan - Nov 20, 2008
Nobody knows for sure if you stage-managed the mysterious shooting in Tainan in which you were nominally wounded on the eve of the 2004 presidential ...

THE VINYL WORD
Taipei Times, Taiwan - Nov 20, 2008
He now runs a manufacturing, marketing and import business in Tainan. So how did a businessman get so deeply involved with the dance music scene in the ...

No plan to halt production: Chi Mei
Taipei Times, Taiwan - Nov 20, 2008
Last month, the Tainan-based company said utilization of the existing seven factories may drop to between 60 percent to 70 percent on average and from 80 ...

Dangerous bridges in Taiwan to be rebuilt over two years, claims ...
eTaiwan News, Taiwan - Nov 20, 2008
1 in Changhua County; Tsengwen Creek Bridge on Provincial Highway No.1 in Tainan County; Guosing Bridge on Provincial Highway No.17; Hsinpi Bridge on ...

50 dangerous bridges to be rebuilt over two years: Cabinet
eTaiwan News, Taiwan - Nov 20, 2008
1 in Changhua County; Tsengwen Creek Bridge on Provincial Highway No.1 in Tainan County; Guosing Bridge on Provincial Highway No.17; Hsinpi Bridge on ...

Far Eastern Plaza Tainan opens
eTaiwan News, Taiwan - Nov 19, 2008
Shangri-La's Far Eastern Plaza Hotel, Tainan is slated to open on November 22, 2008. For celebrating the soft opening, the hotel presents the "A rising Star ...

Exercise may help keep brain young
United Press International, Asia, Hong Kong - Nov 19, 2008
TAINAN CITY, Taiwan, Nov. 19 (UPI) -- In a study in mice, exercise was found to reverse the age-related decline in the production of neural stem cells in ...

Exercise may help keep brain young
United Press International - Nov 19, 2008
TAINAN CITY, Taiwan, Nov. 19 (UPI) -- In a study in mice, exercise was found to reverse the age-related decline in the production of neural stem cells in ...

Chen supporters demand his release
Taipei Times, Taiwan - Nov 18, 2008
Tainan County Councilor Chen Chao-lai (陳朝來) of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) announced on Monday that he would mobilize some 400 supporters from ...

First Teacher’s Day - An ancient birthday celebration
eTaiwan News, Taiwan - Nov 18, 2008
In Taiwan, two of the more renowned Confucius temples are the ones in Tainan and Taipei. The first Confucius temple in the island was built in Tainan City ...

Taiwan Church Leaders Weigh In on Obama's Victory
Worldwide Faith News (press release), NY - Nov 17, 2008
According to the head of pastoral education division at Tainan Theological College and Seminary, Chen Chhong-hoat (Zeng Chang-fa), if Obama’s appointment of ...

Ex-president’s ‘cashier’ may be released Monday
China Post, Taiwan - Nov 17, 2008
Four Democratic Progressive Party supporters in Tainan will arrive in Banqiao today to cheer President Chen and protest his detention on trumped-up charges. ...

Former Taiwan President moved to another hospital due to security ...
eTaiwan News, Taiwan - Nov 17, 2008
About 400 Chen supporters from his native region of Tainan County are planning to protest outside the hospital today and call for his release. ...

Taiwan President desires Parade Law amended quickly: official
eTaiwan News, Taiwan - Nov 17, 2008
\Similar protests have taken place in other Taiwanese towns, including Taichung, Tainan, Hsinchu and Chiayi. The students also want the president and ...

Ex-president’s ‘cashier’ may be released Monday
China Post, Taiwan - 10 hours ago
Four Democratic Progressive Party supporters in Tainan will arrive in Banqiao today to cheer President Chen and protest his detention on trumped-up charges. ...

Chi Mei mulls boosting capacity
Taipei Times, Taiwan - Nov 17, 2008
Chi Mei, based in Tainan, planned to use the proceeds to expand the monthly output of a 6G factory from 62000 sheets to 80000 sheets of mother glasses ...