Taiwan 01 (May 08 - May 10)

Re: Taiwan

Postby kennynah » Wed Dec 09, 2009 7:30 pm

the 愛新覺羅 lineage is very much alive today.... some are living in HK SAR...
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Re: Taiwan

Postby LenaHuat » Wed Dec 09, 2009 7:41 pm

Yes, indeed. No surprise really as the Qing dynasty lasted 267 years from 1644 to 1911. In comparison, I'm only a first generation Singaporean.
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Re: Taiwan

Postby kennynah » Wed Dec 09, 2009 7:49 pm

just my personal opinion... the world and China must thank the weak and corrupt Qing dynasty... for, if not for the immense poor imperial governance of the later Qing court, there would have been no Sun Yat Sun and the modern China.... the world as we know it would be very different today, if there was not the unscrupulous and morally corrupted empress dowager ci xi and weak and puppet emperor pu yi...
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Re: Taiwan 1 (May 08 - Dec 09)

Postby kennynah » Thu Dec 10, 2009 2:50 pm

did u see the latest news about how an entrepreneurial businessman was able to R&D a technique to automatically change the colour of women shoes based on sunlight...much like transition lenses that turn clear indoors and become darkened under direct sunlight... similarly, a pair of white high heels can become purple coloured and the intensity of that purple shade various vis-a-vis the intensity of the sunrays...

word has it that this maybe a welcome technology for the more flamboyant car owners, who might want the subdue black when meeting a client and a fiery red when going for a evening drink...

what a clever and ingenious man.... a taiwanese.... we singaporeans need to learn from them...just as we should have learned how they operated their semiconductor business :!: :!:

shame on us singaporeans !
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Re: Taiwan 1 (May 08 - Dec 09)

Postby millionairemind » Thu Dec 10, 2009 3:40 pm

kennynah wrote:did u see the latest news about how an entrepreneurial businessman was able to R&D a technique to automatically change the colour of women shoes based on sunlight...much like transition lenses that turn clear indoors and become darkened under direct sunlight... similarly, a pair of white high heels can become purple coloured and the intensity of that purple shade various vis-a-vis the intensity of the sunrays...

word has it that this maybe a welcome technology for the more flamboyant car owners, who might want the subdue black when meeting a client and a fiery red when going for a evening drink...

what a clever and ingenious man.... a taiwanese.... we singaporeans need to learn from them...just as we should have learned how they operated their semiconductor business :!: :!:

shame on us singaporeans !


haha... :?

I had the luxury of living in Taiwan/India for a year each. What is so different there compared to Singapore is that they ASSUMED that their gahmen is f**ked up and they better take good care of themselves and hence the entrepreneurial spirit. They believed that the gahmen's intervention in the private section should be kept to a minimum.

That is Y they have got Formosa group, Reliance, TSMC, Tata etc....
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Re: Taiwan 1 (May 08 - Dec 09)

Postby kennynah » Fri Dec 11, 2009 12:51 am

i totally can understand MM.... our over reliance on being governed is not doing us any good... we must believe that the only people who can make a difference is our lives is ourselves...

and when we give up that responsibility of looking after our interests and leave that to bunch of others, that's when we have chewing gum issues... stripped of human diginity...and we so very deserve it... shame on singaporeans !!! those 25% who voted ...
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Re: Taiwan 1 (May 08 - Jan 10)

Postby winston » Mon Jan 11, 2010 11:35 am

On CNBC:-

National Stabilisation Board may start selling shares.
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Re: Taiwan 1 (May 08 - Jan 10)

Postby winston » Wed Feb 17, 2010 8:22 am

Three main reasons why Taiwanese stocks will continue to be a good bet this year.

Reason #1 - An increase in mainland Chinese investment

While China would still like to see Taiwan become part of the country, Beijing's leaders figured out that it is easier to buy Taiwanese assets than to fight for them. So, last year, state-owned wireless giant China Mobile (CHL) announced a deal to invest in a major Taiwanese telecom company, spearheading a new trend of direct investments from Chinese state-owned enterprises (SOEs).

And this year, qualified mainland Chinese institutional investors and mutual funds will be allowed to invest in Taiwanese stocks. Chinese institutional investors control one of the largest pools of liquidity in the world today, and if Chinese government sends a mandate to buy Taiwanese assets, tens of billions of dollars in investments will enter Taiwan quickly.


Reason #2 - A reduction in the estate tax

In the past, to avoid the island's confiscatory estate tax, many wealthy Taiwanese parked significant assets offshore. As a result, Taiwanese invested more than $200 billion in mainland China during the past 30 years.

To lure offshore funds back to Taiwan, Taiwan's maximum estate tax rate was lowered from 50% to 10% last year. Tens of billions of dollars flooded back to Taiwan in the past year, a large chunk of which was parked in Taiwanese stocks and Taipei real estate.


Reason #3 - Strong earnings growth

Although Taiwan's economic growth rate is projected at 4.4% in 2010, the island's largest companies are expected to grow their earnings by an eye-popping 56% as the global recovery, Chinese monetary stimulus and influx of capital will all help Taiwanese companies thrive.

These strong positive fundamentals will support another strong year for Taiwanese stocks. The best way to profit from Taiwan's continuing economic recovery and the strength of its stock market is to invest in iShares MSCI Taiwan Index (EWT).


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Re: Taiwan 1 (May 08 - Jan 10)

Postby millionairemind » Mon Feb 22, 2010 4:45 pm

Feb 22, 2010
Taiwan exits recession in Q4

TAIPEI - TAIWAN said on Monday that it exited recession in the last quarter of 2009, growing 9.22 per cent from the same period in 2008, but the economy shrank for the year as a whole.

The Taiwanese economy had not experienced positive growth since the second quarter of 2008, before it was engulfed by the global financial crisis, the

Directorate General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics said in a statement. 'Not only does this mark a return to growth after five consecutive quarters of decline, it is also the highest quarterly growth since the third quarter of 2004,' the directorate general said.

Taiwan's economy contracted 1.87 per cent in 2009 year on year, the directorate general said, as the export-dependent island experienced its most protracted downturn in decades.

Consumer prices, the main indicator of inflation, declined 0.87 per cent over the year, the directorate general said.

It forecast growth of 4.72 per cent in 2010, up from a previous forecast of 4.39 per cent. -- AFP
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Re: Taiwan 1 (May 08 - Jan 10)

Postby winston » Mon Feb 22, 2010 9:36 pm

Pentagon paints grim picture of Taiwan air defense

Pentagon report paints bleak picture of Taiwan air defense capabilities

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Feb 22, 2010 07:39 EST

The Pentagon has painted a grim picture of Taiwan's air defense capabilities, saying that many of the island's 400 combat aircraft would not be available to help withstand an attack from rival China.

The U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency report obtained Monday by The Associated Press says "far fewer of these are operationally capable," an unusually strong indictment of Taiwanese defense readiness.

By pointing out the island's shortcomings, the report could provide justification for Washington to grant a Taiwanese request for relatively advanced F-16 jet fighters, a key element in its arms procurement wish list.

Late last month, the Obama administration notified Congress it was making $6.4 billion in weapons available to Taiwan, including missiles, Black Hawk helicopters, information distribution systems and two Osprey Class Mine Hunting Ships.

While the package deferred judgment on the F-16s — and on a design plan for diesel submarines also coveted by Taiwan — it still prompted a furious reaction from Beijing, which regards Taiwan as part of its territory 60 years after the sides split amid civil war.

The U.S. says the F-16 request remains under study.

China resents all U.S. arms sales to Taiwan, seeing them as interference in its internal affairs.

The DIA report, dated Jan. 21, says Taiwan's 60 U.S.-made F-5 fighters have reached the end of their operational service, and its 126 locally produced Indigenous Defense Fighter aircraft lack "the capability for sustained sorties."

Taiwan's 56 French-made Mirage 2000-5 fighter jets, the report says, "are technologically advanced, but they require frequent, expensive maintenance that adversely affects their operational readiness rate."

The report notes some of Taiwan's 146 F-16 A/Bs may receive improvements focusing on avionics and combat effectiveness, but says "the extent of the upgrades, and timing and quantity of affected aircraft is currently unknown."

Taiwan's new F-16 request is for the C/D model of the plane, which is considered a substantial improvement on the A/Bs.

Despite rapidly warming relations with Beijing, Taiwan maintains that it needs state-of-the-art weaponry from the U.S. to help it counter China's threat to attack.

Beijing has deployed an estimated 1,300 missiles aimed at Taiwanese targets, and over the past 15 years has engaged in a far-reaching military modernization program, focusing on submarines and aerial warfare capability, necessary to sustain any military action against Taiwan.

The possibility of such action is codified in a Chinese law from 2005, which threatens attack if Taiwan moves to make its de facto independence permanent, or delays unification with the mainland indefinitely.

While Washington shifted its recognition from Taipei to Beijing in 1979, it remains Taiwan's most important foreign partner, providing it with the vast majority of its imported military equipment.

It has also left open the possibility that American forces could come to the island's aid if China invaded across the 100-mile (160-kilometer) -wide Taiwan Strait.

Following the announcement of the most recent arms deal, China suspended exchanges with the American military and threatened sanctions against major U.S. defense contractors.

Any American decision to make new F-16s available to Taiwan is likely to set off new tensions in relations between the sides.

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