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At the tasting table with them are Shabo  head of export Valentyna Parsaieva, center left, and, Spyrt Worldwide sales manager Joseph Belli.","ph_fpath":"2025\/01\/26","ph_fname":"p06-250126-309.jpg","ph_url":"images\/2025\/01\/26\/p06-250126-309.jpg","ph_url_thumbs":"images\/2025\/01\/26\/thumbs\/p06-250126-309.jpg"}},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"","ar_views":"107","ar_id":"2003830843","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Business","ar_pubdate":"2025-01-26","ar_head":"Year of the Snake","dp_urlname":"biz","ar_desc":"Luo Chih-yu, 42, the owner of Pythonism, a pet store, holds a snake while a customer looks on, ahead of the upcoming Lunar New Year, which ushers in the Year of the Snake, in Taipei\u2019s Datong District on Thursday.","ar_url":"News\/biz\/archives\/2025\/01\/26\/2003830843","photo":{"ar_id":"2003830843","ph_attr":"\bPhoto: Ann Wang, 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more rate hikes and supporting the yen.Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda and his fellow board members lifted the overnight","ar_url":"News\/biz\/archives\/2025\/01\/25\/2003830785","photo":{"ar_id":"2003830785","ph_attr":"Photo: Bloomberg","ph_cap":"Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda speaks at a news conference at the central bank\u2019s headquarters in Tokyo yesterday.","ph_fpath":"2025\/01\/25","ph_fname":"p09-250125-322.jpg","ph_url":"images\/2025\/01\/25\/p09-250125-322.jpg","ph_url_thumbs":"images\/2025\/01\/25\/thumbs\/p09-250125-322.jpg"}},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"","ar_views":"538","ar_id":"2003830786","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Business","ar_pubdate":"2025-01-25","ar_head":"Crypto markets lose steam after Trump policy moves","dp_urlname":"biz","ar_desc":"Cryptocurrencies gave a lukewarm reception to US President Donald Trump\u2019s first policy moves on digital assets, notching small gains after he commissioned a report on regulation and a crypto reserve.Bitcoin has been broadly steady since Trump took office on Monday and was trading at about US$105,000","ar_url":"News\/biz\/archives\/2025\/01\/25\/2003830786","photo":{"ar_id":"2003830786","ph_attr":"Photo: Reuters","ph_cap":"Sparks fly from a representation of cryptocurrency bitcoin in an image produced on Nov. 24 last year.","ph_fpath":"2025\/01\/25","ph_fname":"p09-250125-326.jpg","ph_url":"images\/2025\/01\/25\/p09-250125-326.jpg","ph_url_thumbs":"images\/2025\/01\/25\/thumbs\/p09-250125-326.jpg"}},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"","ar_views":"121","ar_id":"2003830787","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Business","ar_pubdate":"2025-01-25","ar_head":"Food and beverage revenue, and retail sales hit new high","dp_urlname":"biz","ar_desc":"Retail sales and revenue generated by food and beverage sectors hit record highs last year on the back of strong domestic demand, the Ministry of Economic Affairs said on Thursday.Retail sales last year rose 2.6 percent from a year earlier to NT$4.85 trillion (US$148.4 billion), while revenue posted","ar_url":"News\/biz\/archives\/2025\/01\/25\/2003830787","photo":{"ar_id":"2003830787","ph_attr":"Photo: CNA","ph_cap":"People look at products at a Japanese drugstore in Taipei\u2019s Zhongshan District on March 23 last year.","ph_fpath":"2025\/01\/25","ph_fname":"p09-250125-shop.jpg","ph_url":"images\/2025\/01\/25\/p09-250125-shop.jpg","ph_url_thumbs":"images\/2025\/01\/25\/thumbs\/p09-250125-shop.jpg"}},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"","ar_views":"64","ar_id":"2003830788","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Business","ar_pubdate":"2025-01-25","ar_head":"Oil prices headed for first weekly decline this year","dp_urlname":"biz","ar_desc":"Oil headed for the first weekly decline this year after US President Donald Trump raised the prospect of trade wars, and said he would ask Saudi Arabia and OPEC to lower prices in the first few days of his new administration.Brent traded near US$78 a barrel and is down more than 3 percent this 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The Lunar New Year falls on Wednesday next week, marking the beginning of the Year of the Snake.","ar_url":"News\/biz\/archives\/2025\/01\/25\/2003830789","photo":{"ar_id":"2003830789","ph_attr":"\bPhoto: Ritchie B. 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development (R&D) employees for US$250 million with an aim to expand its ecosystems","ar_url":"News\/biz\/archives\/2025\/01\/24\/2003830724","photo":{"ar_id":"2003830724","ph_attr":"Photo: Reuters","ph_cap":"The Google logo is displayed on a smartphone in front of a HTC logo in an arranged photograph taken on Sept. 21, 2017.","ph_fpath":"2025\/01\/24","ph_fname":"p09-250124-340.jpg","ph_url":"images\/2025\/01\/24\/p09-250124-340.jpg","ph_url_thumbs":"images\/2025\/01\/24\/thumbs\/p09-250124-340.jpg"}},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"","ar_views":"369","ar_id":"2003830725","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Business","ar_pubdate":"2025-01-24","ar_head":"S Korea\u2019s economy shows tiny rise","dp_urlname":"biz","ar_desc":"South Korea\u2019s economy barely grew in the fourth quarter of last year as the country\u2019s worst political crisis in decades hurt already weakened domestic demand and threaten to further sap growth in a year of rising external risks.Last month, consumer and business sentiment dampened amid political chao","ar_url":"News\/biz\/archives\/2025\/01\/24\/2003830725","photo":{"ar_id":"2003830725","ph_attr":"Photo: Bloomberg","ph_cap":"Bank of Korea Governor Rhee Chang-yong speaks at a news conference in Seoul yesterday.","ph_fpath":"2025\/01\/24","ph_fname":"p09-250124-339.jpg","ph_url":"images\/2025\/01\/24\/p09-250124-339.jpg","ph_url_thumbs":"images\/2025\/01\/24\/thumbs\/p09-250124-339.jpg"}},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"","ar_views":"271","ar_id":"2003830726","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Business","ar_pubdate":"2025-01-24","ar_head":"Samsung unveils phones with Qualcomm chips","dp_urlname":"biz","ar_desc":"Samsung Electronics Co on Wednesday unveiled its newest Galaxy S25 smartphones, powered by Qualcomm\u2019s chips and Google\u2019s artificial intelligence (AI) model, hoping its upgraded AI features can reinvigorate sales and fend off Apple Inc and Chinese rivals.Samsung also previewed a thinner version of 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operating prof","ar_url":"News\/biz\/archives\/2025\/01\/24\/2003830727","photo":{"ar_id":"2003830727","ph_attr":"Photo: Reuters","ph_cap":"The SK Hynix logo is pictured on a product at the Semiconductor Exhibition in Seoul on Oct. 23 last year.","ph_fpath":"2025\/01\/24","ph_fname":"p09-250124-337.jpg","ph_url":"images\/2025\/01\/24\/p09-250124-337.jpg","ph_url_thumbs":"images\/2025\/01\/24\/thumbs\/p09-250124-337.jpg"}},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"","ar_views":"85","ar_id":"2003830728","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Business","ar_pubdate":"2025-01-24","ar_head":"Games show","dp_urlname":"biz","ar_desc":"People play computer games at the Taipei Game Show at Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center\u2019s Hall I yesterday. The show began yesterday and runs through Sunday.","ar_url":"News\/biz\/archives\/2025\/01\/24\/2003830728","photo":{"ar_id":"2003830728","ph_attr":"Photo: CNA","ph_cap":"","ph_fpath":"2025\/01\/24","ph_fname":"p09-250124-605.jpg","ph_url":"images\/2025\/01\/24\/p09-250124-605.jpg","ph_url_thumbs":"images\/2025\/01\/24\/thumbs\/p09-250124-605.jpg"}},{"ar_sbhdtease":"AI CAPACITY BOON:","ar_byline":"By Crystal Hsu","ar_views":"475","ar_id":"2003830661","ar_sbhdbody":"The jobless population declined by 1.07 percent, or 4,000 people, to 399,000 last month, after the number of first-time jobseekers fell by 3,000","ar_section":"Business","ar_pubdate":"2025-01-23","ar_head":"Jobless rate lowest in 24 years","dp_urlname":"biz","ar_desc":"The unemployment rate fell 0.1 percentage points year-on-year to 3.38 percent last year, the lowest in 24 years, as Taiwan continued to reap a windfall from investment by global technology titans in building artificial intelligence (AI) capacity, the Directorate-General of Budget, Accounting and Sta","ar_url":"News\/biz\/archives\/2025\/01\/23\/2003830661","photo":{"ar_id":"2003830661","ph_attr":"Photo: CNA","ph_cap":"Motorists drive past an employment service station in New Taipei City\u2019s Banciao District yesterday.","ph_fpath":"2025\/01\/23","ph_fname":"p09-250123-605.jpg","ph_url":"images\/2025\/01\/23\/p09-250123-605.jpg","ph_url_thumbs":"images\/2025\/01\/23\/thumbs\/p09-250123-605.jpg"}},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"","ar_views":"622","ar_id":"2003830662","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Business","ar_pubdate":"2025-01-23","ar_head":"TAIEX ends Year of the Dragon about 30% higher","dp_urlname":"biz","ar_desc":"The TAIEX ended the Year of the Dragon yesterday up about 30 percent, led by contract chipmaker Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC, \u53f0\u7a4d\u96fb).The benchmark index closed up 225.40 points, or 0.97 percent, at 23,525.41 on the last trading session of the Year of the Dragon before the Lunar New Year","ar_url":"News\/biz\/archives\/2025\/01\/23\/2003830662","photo":{"ar_id":"2003830662","ph_attr":"Photo: CNA","ph_cap":"Two Lunar New Year\u2019s couplets featuring the Chinese character for snake and a computer screen displaying the TAIEX are pictured at a brokerage in Taipei yesterday.","ph_fpath":"2025\/01\/23","ph_fname":"p09-250123-607.jpg","ph_url":"images\/2025\/01\/23\/p09-250123-607.jpg","ph_url_thumbs":"images\/2025\/01\/23\/thumbs\/p09-250123-607.jpg"}},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"","ar_views":"379","ar_id":"2003830663","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Business","ar_pubdate":"2025-01-23","ar_head":"Uncertainty expected to plague capital market in second Trump term, FSC says","dp_urlname":"biz","ar_desc":"Uncertainty from the second term of US President Donald Trump is expected to become a regular theme, haunting the capital market this year, Financial Supervisory Commission Chairman Peng Jin-lung (\u5f6d\u91d1\u9686) said yesterday.Trump\u2019s economic policies are expected to dictate the financial markets, while the ","ar_url":"News\/biz\/archives\/2025\/01\/23\/2003830663","photo":{"ar_id":"2003830663","ph_attr":"Photo: CNA","ph_cap":"Financial Supervisory Commission Chairman Peng Jin-lung speaks at a news conference in New Taipei City yesterday.","ph_fpath":"2025\/01\/23","ph_fname":"p09-250123-608.jpg","ph_url":"images\/2025\/01\/23\/p09-250123-608.jpg","ph_url_thumbs":"images\/2025\/01\/23\/thumbs\/p09-250123-608.jpg"}},{"ar_sbhdtease":"TAICHUNG PLANT:","ar_byline":"By Lisa Wang","ar_views":"236","ar_id":"2003830664","ar_sbhdbody":"The supplier of reclaimed wafers plans to expand its capacity by about 23 percent to 800,000 12-inch wafers a year by the end of this year","ar_section":"Business","ar_pubdate":"2025-01-23","ar_head":"Phoenix Silicon expands capacity","dp_urlname":"biz","ar_desc":"Phoenix Silicon International Corp (\u6607\u967d\u534a\u5c0e\u9ad4), the world\u2019s No. 2 supplier of reclaimed wafers, yesterday broke ground on a NT$2.5 billion (US$76.3 million) plant in Taichung as the company expands capacity to meet rising demand.The artificial intelligence (AI) boom has boosted the production of advance","ar_url":"News\/biz\/archives\/2025\/01\/23\/2003830664","photo":{"ar_id":"2003830664","ph_attr":"Photo courtesy of Phoenix Silicon International Corp","ph_cap":"Phoenix Silicon International Corp chairman Mike Liang, fourth right, other company executives and Taichung Port Technology Industrial Park officials gesture at a groundbreaking ceremony in Taichung yesterday.","ph_fpath":"2025\/01\/23","ph_fname":"p09-250123-007.jpg","ph_url":"images\/2025\/01\/23\/p09-250123-007.jpg","ph_url_thumbs":"images\/2025\/01\/23\/thumbs\/p09-250123-007.jpg"}}]