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You’ve heard the names of the world’s big
stock markets: NYSE, FTSE, Hang Seng, Nasdaq, TWSE… TWSE? Ok, maybe you haven’t
heard about the Taiwan Stock Exchange before, but lately I’ve been noticing
more and more press about the TWSE and Taiwan’s capital markets in
general.

  
The end of July in San Diego
is a special time of year for hundreds of thousands of comic fans. They dress
as super heroes or super villains, both classic and newly-minted, and swarm the
convention center for perhaps the largest geek-gathering in the world: the
annual Comic-Con International. This
year was the 41st edition of the event and word on the street is
that tickets sold out in record time.

 
 
While reading the monthly “Topic” by Taipei’s American Chamber
of Commerce, I chanced upon an article, “Guiding Taiwan’s Internationalization.”  The article was about the government efforts
to elevate English-speaking competence to benefit both foreign visitors and
residents.  I quickly read on…

 
It has been a record breaking year for attendance
at the 2010 Taipei ComicCon. I read that more than
95,000 people packed into Taipei’s World Trade
Center on the first day
of the event. Perhaps it has to do with the rebound of the economy, trickling
down to the teenagers, who may lack independent earning power but are
benefiting from the hard-earned, yet more generously doled out, allowance money
from parents. 

 
Yesterday, several Government
representative and industry specialists visited our office to discuss an
ongoing animation project.  Our
conversation eventually strayed to the development of WiMAX in Taiwan. 

 
Inaugural
Edition
Two announcements over the past few
weeks have given me a tremendous boost of confidence: they affirmed in
small part what it is that I have been doing in Taiwan for the past 6-odd
years.