This paper is an overview of the social welfare systems of five East Asian countries, namely Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Hong … privately financed welfare programmes; (ii) Korea and Taiwan's public welfare expenditures will grow significantly in the coming …

and Taiwan over the period 2003–2009. Different from previous literature using loans and securities as the output …

Canada since the end of the 1980s. In particular, the outbreaks of foot and mouth disease (FMD) in Taiwan and in South Korea …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the long-run performance of initial public offerings (IPOs) in Taiwan … consists of 261 IPOs issued in Taiwan over-the-counter during 1991 and 2002. The actual data cover the period from January 1991 … to December 2007. Findings – Contrary to findings of previous studies on US IPO markets, the paper finds that Taiwan IPOs …

-sectional data from the National Survey on Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice of Health Promotion in Taiwan, this study examined the …

study contributes to this interesting topic by investigating the happiness of immigrant wives in Taiwan. Special attention …

>w</Subscript>. The AFOSM analysis shows that the probability could be as high as 64 % for a major earthquake in northern Taiwan to exceed … ± 1 mm per year. By contrast, the other case study shows that for the Meishan fault in central Taiwan, the probability is …

Taiwan is subjected to several natural hazards such as extreme weather, seismic activity or tsunamis excited by … earthquakes occurring along the Pacific Ocean subduction zones. Fortunately, Taiwan has not experienced any volcanic activity in …, volcanological, seismological and geochemical observations have shown that such a belief is erroneous and that two of Taiwan …