Chengchi the place for EMBA
National Chengchi University was ranked the top choice to study the executive master's business administration (EMBA) program, beating the two-year titleholder National Taiwan University (NTU), according to survey results released yesterday.
EMBA courses are aimed at business executives and have become a popular field exploited by a growing number of universities, said the third annual report by Cheers Magazine (快樂工作人雜誌).
National Chiao Tung University ranked second on the list, followed by NTU, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, and National Central University -- which ranked joint third.
Three-fourths of the polled executives said they plan to attend EMBA courses to learn business operations in different fields, while 48 percent said their priority is to build connections.
Major investments rise
There were 2,550 new major project investments amounting to NT$881.2 billion (US$27.19 billion) in the first 11 months of this year, accounting for 101.74 percent of the goal of NT$866.2 billion set for this year, according to a report published yesterday by the Ministry of Economic Affairs.
A total of 10 new major domestic investment plans, each valued at over NT$10 billion for a combined total of NT$408.3 billion were registered, while nine investment projects each valued between NT$5 billion and NT$10 billion for an accumulated total of NT$61.3 billion were recorded.
Next year's goal is NT$867 billion for domestic investment projects such as those in manufactu-ring and private power plants.
Taiwan Transport and Storage Corp (TTS, 台灣通運倉儲) yesterday unveiled its first electric tractor unit — manufactured by Volvo Trucks — in a ceremony in Taipei, and said the unit would soon be used to transport cement produced by Taiwan Cement Corp (TCC, 台灣水泥). Both TTS and TCC belong to TCC International Holdings Ltd (台泥國際集團). With the electric tractor unit, the Taipei-based cement firm would become the first in Taiwan to use electric vehicles to transport construction materials. TTS chairman Koo Kung-yi (辜公怡), Volvo Trucks vice president of sales and marketing Johan Selven, TCC president Roman Cheng (程耀輝) and Taikoo Motors Group
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New apartments in Taiwan’s major cities are getting smaller, while old apartments are increasingly occupied by older people, many of whom live alone, government data showed. The phenomenon has to do with sharpening unaffordable property prices and an aging population, property brokers said. Apartments with one bedroom that are two years old or older have gained a noticeable presence in the nation’s six special municipalities as well as Hsinchu county and city in the past five years, Evertrust Rehouse Co (永慶房產集團) found, citing data from the government’s real-price transaction platform. In Taipei, apartments with one bedroom accounted for 19 percent of deals last