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- Taiwan president fined for Facebook post
Ma, who won re-election to a second term earlier this year, was on Wednesday ordered to pay T$500,000 (US$16,666) by the island's Central Election Commission for posting a message to his Facebook campaign page on the day of the election.
- Hawaii will have two acting governors this week
Hawaii Lt. Gov. Brian Schatz became acting governor Tuesday when Gov. Neil Abercrombie left the state on personal leave to visit family in New York.
Schatz will be acting governor until Friday morning, when he leaves on a trip to Taiwan and South Korea to promote tourism and sign a memorandum on energy cooperation.
Abercrombie is scheduled to return to Hawaii at 5:30 p.m. Friday, so Attorney General David Louie will serve as acting governor between the time Schatz departs on his trip in the morning...
- China criticizes Philippines on South China Sea protest
MANILA (Reuters) - China on Friday accused the Philippines of escalating an already tense territorial dispute over the South China Sea following a noisy but peaceful anti-Beijing protest in Manila. About 200 protesters, well below initial estimates, rallied in front of the Chinese consular office in Manila. Both Beijing and Taiwan had warned their nationals to stay indoors. The demonstrators, carrying placards and banners and waving Philippine flags, protested against what they called Chinese intrusions into Philippine territory. ...
- Philippines on alert over anti-China protest, Beijing frets
MANILA (Reuters) - Security was tightened in the Philippines capital on Friday ahead of anti-Chinese protests over a territorial dispute in the South China Sea, with both Beijing and Taipei warning their citizens to be on guard for violence. Some 1,000 people from civil society and political groups were expected to march to a Chinese consular office in Manila to protest against what they say are Chinese intrusions, as tensions increase in the long-standing territorial dispute. ...
- Avago Technologies pushes for tax break
Avago Technologies is asking Fort Collins and Larimer County to give it a tax break as an incentive to bring new jobs to the area, the Coloradoan reports.
The company is weighing a $150 million expansion that would create 136 jobs in Fort Collins against contracting for manufacturing work in Taiwan.
Avago wants the city and county to cut in half the personal property taxes it would pay on new manufacturing equipment, which would cost Fort Collins about $150,000 and Larimer County about $300,000...
- Apple rumors say iPhone 5 coming in September, 7-inch iPad in August
Apple Inc. has reportedly placed orders with Asian manufacturers that indicate it plans to roll out the iPhone 5 in September and a 7-inch iPad in August.
Asian tech publication Digitimes reported the rumors, citing unnamed sources. The Taiwan industry sources it uses have had a spotty accuracy on predicting such matters in there is often some element of fact in the rumors.
Contract manufacturer Pegatron Technology has reportedly won the contract for the new iPhone and Foxconn Electronics has won...
- Boeing wins $668 million Apache helicopter order
Boeing Co. received two orders worth $668 million from the U.S. Army for work on AH-64D Apache Block III helicopters for the U.S. military and Taiwan, the Chicago Tribune reports. The company won a fixed-price contract of $486 million for initial production of 51 remanufactured helicopters in the new configuration for the Army, as well as a $172 million contract to deliver an unspecified number of Apache Block III helicopters to Taiwan. The Boeing Defense, Space & Security segment, based in Hazelwood,...
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