Hon Hai to set up a new Factory in Vietnam under the name Fukang Technology to produce future MacBooks and iPads
In November Patently Apple posted a report titled Apple has Reportedly asked Foxconn to move some Product Production to Vietnam. The report noted that Foxconn was moving some iPad and MacBook assembly to Vietnam from China at the request of Apple Inc.
Today we re learning that the Vietnamese government confirmed Hon Hai Technology Group is to establish a new company
Fukang Technology to spend US$270 million (about NT$7.63 billion) to set up a factory to manufacture laptops and tablet computers.
Brussels, Jan. 16 (CNA) Taiwan's representative to Switzerland met with his U.S counterpart on Thursday, the latest Taiwanese diplomat to meet a U.S. official after the U.S. ended its restrictions on official contacts with Taiwan on Jan. 9.
Hafeez Dhalla, who is part of a Duke engineering team developing laser technology to combat diabetic retinopathy, is no stranger to the Duke University’s Harrington Engineering Quadrangle, nor to its reputation for innovation in the health care arena.
Assistant research professor of biomedical engineering at Duke Universit, Dhalla stayed at Duke after graduating as an undergrad to pursue his PhD while helping Joe Izatt, the Michael J. Fitzpatrick Distinguished Professor of Engineering, develop a surgical microscope with built-in optical coherence tomography (OCT) capabilities.
After several years working in industry, he returned to campus on a new mission leverage Duke’s capabilities and resources to develop low-cost scanning laser ophthalmoscopes (SLOs) to combat diabetic retinopathy, which is a major cause of adult blindness.
Taiwan and Switzerland sign prisoner transfer deal
Staff writer, with CNA
An agreement on the transfer of convicted and sentenced criminals between Taiwan and Switzerland took effect on Friday, the Ministry of Justice said in a statement on the same day.
The agreement was remotely signed by Trade Office of Swiss Industries Director Reto Renggli in Taipei on Nov. 13 and Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Switzerland Director David Huang (黃偉峰) on Friday in Bern, the statement said.
“Citizens of the two countries who are sentenced to jail in each other’s territory may under certain conditions apply for repatriation to serve the remainder of their terms in their home countries,” it said.
Taiwan-Switzerland prisoner transfer pact takes effect
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David Huang (黃偉峰), chief of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Switzerland. Photo courtesy of Taiwan s delegation to Switzerland
Taipei, Dec. 11 (CNA) An agreement on the transfer of convicted and sentenced criminals between Taiwan and Switzerland took effect on Friday, according to a press statement issued by Taiwan s Ministry of Justice (MOJ) on Friday.
The agreement was signed separately by Reto Renggli, director of the Trade Office of Swiss Industries, on Nov. 13 in Taipei, and by David Huang (黃偉峰), chief of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Switzerland, on Dec. 11 in Bern, the statement said.