Taiwan lagged behind Asian countries in the first half of the year in both the number of cross-border acquisitions in Asia and their total worth, a media report said yesterday.
The Chinese-language Commercial Times yesterday cited statistics from the Council for Economic Planning and Development to report that Taiwan had closed only 10 acquisitions in the Asia-Pacific region in the first six months of the year, or 4.4 percent of all deals closed in Asia during the period — lower than Malaysia’s 37 deals, Hong Kong’s 28 deals, South Korea’s 26 deals, Singapore’s 21 deals and Thailand’s 12 deals.
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That was, however, up from 2.4 percent last year, 1.1 percent in 2007 and 0.5 percent in 2006, despite Taiwan being a laggard in this regard since 2006, the report said.
In terms of transaction value, domestic companies totaled US$46 million in Asia-based acquisition deals for the first six months of the year, also lower than the total US$429 million in acquisitions completed by Hong Kong companies at the same time, South Korean companies’ US$1.13 billion or Singaporean companies’ US$1.9 billion, the report said.
The council’s statistics were based on the World Investment Report, published by the UN Conference on Trade and Development annually, the report said.
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