Taiwan

Magazine articles on politics and society in Taiwan.

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Fast Company May 2009 Abha Bhattarai	Fast Cities: Taipei, Taiwan Taipei is striving to achieve "zero landfill, total recycling" by 2010, 30 years ahead of the UN's trash targets.
IEEE Spectrum January 2009 Yu-Tzu Chiu	Taiwan's DRAM Bailout Government will help out only if DRAM companies can prove they'll upgrade their technology
Bank Technology News April 2007 Rebecca Sausner	The Taiwan Scenario The issue of China's cyber-warfare capabilities is intricately linked to the political status of Taiwan.
IEEE Spectrum February 2007 Yu-Tzu Chiu	Carlyle Group's Taiwan Gambit A semiconductor acquisition by a U.S. investment group tests Taiwan's China policies.
IEEE Spectrum August 2006 Yu-Tzu Chiu	Taiwan's High-Tech Hubbub Inexplicably, when Taiwan started developing plans 10 years ago for a bullet train to go from the north end of the island to the south, the route was allowed to conflict with plans for a new semiconductor park in Tainan. Here's the latest on the issue.
BusinessWeek December 5, 2005 Matt Kovac	Why Taiwan's Voters Are Fed Up With Chen Taiwan's President was voted into office twice on the strength of his anti-China, pro-independence stance. But the rhetoric is wearing thin. Is Chen Shui-Bian a lame duck?
Reason May 2005 Holiday Dmitri	Barbie's Taiwanese Homecoming A plastic, fantastic tale of globalization: Barbie is revered like a messiah in Taishan, a municipality nine miles southwest of Taipei that the blonde doll transformed from an agricultural village of 5,000 to a manufacturing center nearly the size of Boston.
BusinessWeek May 16, 2005 Bremner & Kovac	China's New Taiwan Tack What if the long struggle to preserve Taiwan's tenuous independence from China were scuttled not by a military confrontation but by a thundering herd of Taiwanese businessmen tripping over each other to pump more billions into mainland plants for making chips and liquid-crystal displays?
BusinessWeek May 16, 2005	Stan Shih on Taiwan and China The PC-pioneer-turned-VC talks about the two countries' futures and about how Taiwan can gain by becoming an "integrator"
BusinessWeek March 7, 2005 Matt Kovac	Taipei's Mayor Is On The Move If Ma Ying-jeou winds up atop the Kuomintang (KMT) party, he could be headed for the Taiwanese presidency.
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