Focus Taiwan
Date: 2015/03/24
By: Zoe Wei, Pan Chi-yi and Lilian Wu

Taipei, March 24 (CNA) South Korean workers from Hydis Technologies, a subsidiary of a

Taiwanese company in South Korea, staged a protest in Taipei Tuesday to press their demands that the factory should not be closed.

Twenty-nine of the South Korean workers, together with local support groups, including the Taoyuan Confederation of Labor Unions (桃園縣產業總工會), went to the Ministry of Labor to appeal to E Ink Holdings (EIH, 元太科技) — the parent company of Hydis Technologies — to revoke its decision to shut down the factory and stop laying off its South Korean workers.

One of the workers said that E Ink Holdings pledged previously that it would not sell the company’s patents and would continue to run the factory.     [FULL  STORY]

Want China Times
Date: 2015-03-24
By: Staff Reporter

China’s premier, Li Keqiang, has told Jason Hu, vice chair of our parent company Want Want

Holdings and former mayor of Taichung, that his government “will take good care of Taiwanese businesses,” our sister paper China Times reports.

The government pays close attention to the interests of Taiwanese investors, Li told Hu at a meeting in Beijing following the China Development Forum on March 23. Want Want Holdings, represented by Hu, was the only Taiwan-based enterprise invited to the annual event.

China emphasizes the idea of “one family across the Strait” and wants Taiwanese businesses to be at ease, the premier said.     [FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2015/03/24
By: Jalen Chung and Frances Huang

Taipei, March 24 (CNA) Taiwan-based Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. (鴻海) wants to participate in the management of Sharp Corp. if it is to invest in the struggling Japanese electronics maker, Hon Hai Chairman Terry Gou said in a report in Toyo Keizai.

In an interview published in the Japanese weekly Friday, Gou said Hon Hai is ready to support Sharp financially, but the support is contingent on being able to join in the Japanese company’s management.

Gou said he has not met with Sharp President Kozo Takahashi in a year, but if the Sharp executive wanted to see him, he would be able to fly to Japan at any time.     [FULL  STORY]

Want China Times
Date: 2015-03-24
By: CNA

Evergreen Group, a Taiwan-based conglomerate providing shipping and logistic services, said

Monday that plummeting fuel prices across the globe could help the industry generate more profits this year.

Operating costs of both its air and marine shipping businesses could drop by 20% compared with the same period of last year, said Group vice chair Hsieh Chih-chien.

Thanks to a recovering global economy and especially positive GDP prospects for the United States, Hsieh said the group is expecting a promising market in 2015.     [FULL  STORY]