Taiwan 02 (Jun 10 - May 16)

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桃園機場失修
跑道破裂爆泥漿
http://hk.apple.nextmedia.com/internati ... 1455510652

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2016.02.20台灣大搜索／「搞怪藝人蔡閨　赴日工作遭騙下海？！」另類夫妻感情
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ii2EAgL3EiY

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繼禁播金像獎再出手　斥「不符國情」
中共疑封殺金馬獎　
台文化部長轟小器
http://hk.apple.nextmedia.com/internati ... 3/19501835

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2016.02.27台灣大搜索／繳稅冠軍「南霸天陳家」　土地比國稅局大、爆子女爭產
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnihEq3rvi0



2016.02.27台灣大搜索／豪宅停棺4年不葬之謎　張榮發船隊發跡自陳家
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcPQg3nY3rc

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台長榮航空演「溏心風暴」
張榮發大房將二房連根拔
http://hk.apple.nextmedia.com/internati ... 2/19526471

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2016.03.12台灣大搜索／「S中」分離早註定？　呂洞賓前辦婚宴破迷信「破功」
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEGp9tVuAqQ


2016.03.12台灣大搜索／柯P譽為國師蘇仁宗智商逾200？一屋雙妻姊妹花
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyOsCN21hHM


2016.03.12台灣大搜索／秘辛！太平島非礁岩　是咱的　曾「獨立建國」揭秘？
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnEuckM6Llo

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2016.03.19第52法庭／孕婦一屍兩命案　逮不到真凶、竟栽前夫纏11年
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMQ_rs9o4BM


2016.03.19台灣大搜索／真的人骨煉劍！金庸「倚天屠龍劍」也找他　有何禁忌？
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8vJyU6EhmU

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Electronics: Taiwan 2.0

The island’s electronics firms are in need of an upgrade

THE takeover bid by Hon Hai of Taiwan for Sharp, a chronically loss-making Japanese electronics firm, is being watched closely as a test of Japan’s openness to foreign investment. But it is also being scrutinised back in Taiwan. The deal may yet falter: as The Economist went to press, Hon Hai was reportedly seeking to knock around $900m off its earlier offer of $5.4 billion including assumed debt.

But if it does go ahead, and Terry Gou, Hon Hai’s boss, succeeds in absorbing Sharp’s brand and technology, he will be able to offer his big customers, such as Apple, a broader array of parts, and may even transform his firm into a seller of innovative consumer goods. The deal could serve as a model for other Taiwanese electronics firms which want to go global, says the island’s economics minister, John Deng.

Electronics firms together contribute 40% of Taiwanese exports, and 15% of its GDP. For more than two decades they have achieved great success assembling computers and other gadgets for Western companies. At first their factories were all in Taiwan, but as China opened up, they shifted some to the mainland. The combination of Taiwanese production expertise and the mainland’s cheap labour was hard to beat.

Now, however, this cross-strait partnership is giving way to competition. Taiwanese firms fear that rising mainland counterparts, which they call the “red supply chain”, are catching up. Taiwan’s semiconductor firms, such as TSMC, are so far going strong. But its main makers of big display screens, Innolux (which Hon Hai controls) and AU Optronics, are under threat from the mainland’s BOE and China Star Optoelectronics. Whereas Taiwan’s total exports fell by 12% year on year in February, display screens and other “optical instruments” plunged by 34%.

Of all the countries dependent on purchases by China, Taiwan has most to lose as the mainland’s electronics industry becomes more self-sufficient, says Angela Hsieh, an economist at Barclays, a bank. South Korea also depends on China, but its firms sell a wider variety of goods there, such as cars and cosmetics.

Becoming more innovative is easier for some than others. Hon Hai, which has its eye on Sharp’s research into advanced OLED display screens, is big enough to absorb the struggling Japanese firm, and to keep throwing money at developing its technology.

Likewise, South Korean firms such as Samsung Electronics, which belong to giant conglomerates, can afford the R&D and marketing budgets needed to remain globally competitive. But many of Taiwan’s electronics firms are, thus far at least, small, anonymous links in other companies’ supply chains.

Starting to sell gadgets under their own brands might offer these firms far higher profit margins, allowing them to pull themselves up by their bootstraps. But past experience shows that it is hard to do this without going into competition with the more famous customers that they rely on.

Some Taiwanese firms, including HTC and Asus, have produced branded products—such as phones and notebook computers—only to be deserted by the customers to whom they sell components.

Raymond Hsu, an analyst with Taiwan Ratings, an affiliate of Standard and Poor’s, thinks Hon Hai would only try to make money from Sharp’s brand if it could attach it to products that wouldn’t upset its existing customers.

The Taiwanese firm may be more interested, in the short term, in being able to offer brand-owners like Apple a wider range of components, and thus to increase its bargaining-power with them. Mr Hsu says Apple would prefer not to buy OLED displays from Samsung, which is a rival producer of smartphones.

Taiwan’s president-elect, Tsai Ing-wen, has promised to reshape its economy by “shifting from an efficiency-driven model to an innovation-driven one.” Ms Tsai also wants to reduce reliance on China and promote greater technology ties with America and Japan. The question is how. Taiwanese firms have already been encouraged by the outgoing government to flirt with the likes of cloud computing, the “internet of things”, 3D printing, biotechnology and renewable energy.

Some are showing potential, but there will be no quick fixes. Meanwhile, prospering rivals on the mainland enjoy the benefits of a vast home market, and a government with lots more money to throw around.

Source: The Economist

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2016.03.26台灣大搜索／本土劇演員好累！方岑拍六天五夜沒睡　黃雨欣染腎盂炎
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juD9eD4m3uI

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「百年老店」首誕女領袖
洪秀柱膺國民黨主席
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