President Ma Ying-jeou declared victory at 8:12 p.m. Saturday in his search for a second and final term as television stations reported he received more than half the votes.

A fuel oil spill that polluted waters off northern Taiwan after a gravel vessel ran aground will not pose a safety hazard to the country's No. 2 nuclear power plant, the Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) said Tuesday.

Mergers and acquisitions in Asian countries are on the increase. The Cross-strait economic agreement (ECFA) and an investment agreement with Japan have moved Taiwan into the spotlight for international M&A’s in Asia, says the Executive Director of PricewaterhouseCoopers International Limited (PwC), Yu Ming-de.

Delegations of 32 EU Member States and partner countries as well as representatives of the main European Union institutions debated for two days on the future of the Eastern Partnership and reviewed its achievements since it was launched two years ago.

“As we deserved once to become part of Europe, today Europe deserves our presidency. It will be a good presidency”, said the Polish prime minister Donald Tusk on the first day of the presidency.

Today marks the start of Poland’s chairmanship of the Council of the European Union. Poland is taking over the Presidency from Hungary which has presided over the EU for the past six months.

After several years of branding work, Taiwan’s HTC Corp., a globally known smartphone supplier, is reaping the fruits of its efforts. The HTC brand is now valued at around US$3.605 billion, topping the list of the island’s “top 100 international brands” this year.

Empik, one of Poland’s major retail outlets, is billed to start sales of digital music over the internet after it took over a majority stake in e-Muzyka, a leader in digital music distribution in the country.

Acer and ASUS, Taiwan’s internationally renowned computer duo, are both said to hit the global market with flat panel computers in the third quarter later this year in response to Apple’s sensational “iPad,” according to Economic Daily News.