Taiwan

March 23 (Bloomberg) — Rob Enderle, president of Enderle Group in San Jose, California, talks with Bloomberg’s Susan Li and Paul Gordon about Google Inc.’s decision to stop censoring search results in China.
Google began redirecting traffic from its Chinese home page to the company’s unfiltered Hong Kong site, outside of mainland China. The move, which escalates a two-month dispute with the government over censorship, was “totally wrong,” the official Xinhua news agency said. (Source: Bloomberg)

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I thought this hotel was amazing so I decided to do a little video walkthrough of it. It costs about $80 per night for this 4 person room. It also includes a free breakfast and free bike rentals so you can ride bikes around the city (which is extremely dangerous for people not used to the traffic).

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March 18 (Bloomberg) — Susan Schwab, a former United States Trade Representative, talks with Bloomberg’s Haslinda Amin and Heidi Couch from Hong Kong about the impact of U.S. calls for China to allow its currency to appreciate on the trade relationship between the two nations.
Five senators including Charles Schumer of New York and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina introduced legislation March 16 to make it easier for the U.S. to declare currency misalignments and take corrective action. (This is an excerpt of the full interview. Source: Bloomberg)

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March 17 (Bloomberg) — Scott Kessler, senior director for technology sector equity research at Standard & Poors, talks with Bloomberg’s Lori Rothmam about Google Inc.’s performance versus Chinese market leader Baidu Inc.
Kessler also discusses implications for Google if the company shuts its Web site in China. (Source: Bloomberg)

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March 11 (Bloomberg) — Fred DeLuca, co-founder of the Subway sandwich shop chain, talks with Bloomberg’s Susan Li from Beijing about the company’s expansion into China. (Source: Bloomberg)

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March 9 (Bloomberg) — William Dong, an analyst at UBS AG, talks with Bloomberg’s Susan Li about the outlook for Taiwan’s economy and stocks.
UBS has cut its forecast for Taiwan’s Taiex index by 9 percent to 8,000, saying the economy may have peaked and technology shipments will return to “normalized” levels. (Source: Bloomberg)

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March 4 (Bloomberg) — Bloomberg’s Stephen Engle reports on the impact of politics on China’s ability to manage its economy.
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, nearing the end of his tenure, will give what amounts to Chinas State of the Union speech tomorrow to the National Peoples Congress in Beijing. His audience will include people who, according to analysts, disagree with some possible measures to fix economic imbalances. (Source: Bloomberg)

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Feb. 23 (Bloomberg) — Craig Irvine, co-head of regional research, Asia (ex-Japan) at Daiwa Capital Markets, talks with Bloomberg’s Bernard Lo about the outlook for the appreciation of China’s yuan.
Irvine, speaking in Hong Kong, also discusses his investment strategy for Chinese and Taiwanese stocks. (Source: Bloomberg)

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Feb. 17 (Bloomberg) — Richard Eu, chief executive officer of Eu Yan Sang International Ltd., talked with Bloomberg’s Zeb Eckert on Feb. 12 about the company’s performance and growth strategy. ¶
Eu Yan Sang is a Singapore-based maker of traditional Chinese medicine. (Source: Bloomberg)

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