COUNTDOWN: CNA has compiled a list of programs, featured performers and fireworks shows being held from north to south to celebrate the dawn of a new year/ Staff writer, with CNA
By Liao Hsueh-ju and Kayleigh Madjar / Staff reporter, with staff writerA Hsinchu County-based retired conductor has found a new type of band to lead, to the growing delight of picture-taking visitors.
SCIENCE
<strong>LayV test developed</strong>
Taiwanese researchers have developed a polymerase chain reaction-based test to diagnose Langya henipavirus (LayV), a recently discovered animal-derived virus that has been detected in eastern China, the Centers for Disease Control said yesterday. LayV, which was first described by Chinese scientists in an Aug. 4 article in the New England Journal of Medicine, has infected dozens of people, mainly farmers, in China’s Shandong and Henan provinces. Many patients had symptoms such as a fever, fatigue and coughing. The virus is believed to have been transmitted to humans from shrews, but there is no evidence that it can be
Novatek Microelectronics Corp (聯詠), a supplier of display driver ICs, yesterday said that its revenue would plunge as much as 39 percent this quarter as customers pare down orders amid tepid demand for smartphones and other consumer electronics due to a global economic upheaval.
A spike in supply chain inventory is also adding to the already weak momentum of the industry, Novatek told an online investors’ conference.
However, the Hsinchu-based company said that this quarter would be the trough for the year as it is pinning its hopes on new product launches by smartphone vendors to help recoup some losses in revenue
Two Taiwanese businessmen on Wednesday were indicted for allegedly working on behalf of Chinese firms to recruit Taiwanese to research and design memory devices.
The suspects, surnamed Chen (陳) and Huang (黃), allegedly set up offices near the Hsinchu Science Park in Hsinchu City to target employees in the semiconductor and other high-tech industries, the Hsinchu District Prosecutors’ Office said.
After months of surveillance, Hsinchu investigators, with support from the Ministry of Justice’s Investigation Bureau, raided the offices and residences of Chen and Huang, who are facing charges related to acting as fronts for Chinese-owned businesses to operate in Taiwan.
Prosecutors said that