BELATED JUSTICE: The local CD manufacturer has used the Dutch company's patents without paying royalties on blank media it has sold in the domestic market since 2005
By Lisa Wang
Taiwanese compact disc producer Gigastorage Corp (國碩科技) has signed a preliminary agreement with rival Royal Philips Electronics NV to settle prolonged patent lawsuits, a filing with the Taiwan Stock Exchange said.

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BY Hsu Min-jung
More than 21,000 foreign visitors chose to stay at "leisure farms" in Taiwan last year, giving the nation another attraction to lure international visitors.

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Some of the gold bars kept by the Bank of England to prop up the pound in times of economic turmoil are showing cracks and fissures, a newspaper reported on Saturday.

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A Hong Kong man whose refusal to sell his house in China held up a massive property development has won a record pay-out.

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TOUGH TIMES: The auto market's outlook remains bleak, as financiers have tightened loans after the slow recovery from the consumer credit storm
By Kevin Chen
China Motor Corp (中華汽車), the nation's No. 2 automaker, announced over the weekend that its president, Huang Wen-cheng (黃文成), would retire next Monday after three-years at the company's helm.

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