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Formosa Chemicals & Fibre (FCFC, TWSE:1326) Q2 2026 self-tallied consolidated results: revenue of NT$87,154.28 million rose 6.6% QoQ yet pre-tax profit of NT$7.02 billion fell NT$280 million — the structure is operating income down NT$1.2 billion (company's account: crude and petrochemical feedstock prices fell after the US and Iran reached a peace agreement in June and reopened the Strait of Hormuz, some peers cut prices, customers held back and restocked only on essential demand, and scheduled maintenance of large units cut volumes) plus non-operating net income up NT$920 million recovering most of it; after-tax profit attributable to the parent NT$6,092.50 million, EPS NT$1.04, down NT$0.03 from Q1; H1 pre-tax profit NT$14.31 billion, up NT$21.8 billion versus H1 2025, EPS NT$2.11, up NT$3.35 per share; June revenue of NT$27,666.32 million rose 1.0% MoM but volume-up/price-down (volume effect +NT$3.03 billion, price effect −NT$2.75 billion), the opposite direction of Q2's volume-down/price-up (company self-tallied, unaudited)
Formosa Chemicals & Fibre Corporation (FCFC, 台化, TWSE:1326) announced its Q2 2026 self-tallied consolidated results (TWS…
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Taiwan's 13 Listed Financial Holding Companies Posted Combined H1 2026 After-Tax Profit of NT$440.875 Billion, Up 101% From H1 2025, an All-Time First-Half Record
As compiled in a Central News Agency (CNA) report dated 2026-07-15 (reporters Lu Yen-tzu and Su Szu-yun): Taiwan's 13 li…
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The Gap Ledger's Next Page: Five Corporate Releases on Japan's AI-Security Supply Side in the Two Weeks Around ChillStack's Survey Release (2026-06-25 to 2026-07-09) -- the Survey's Publisher Launched an 'MCP Server Assessment' 11 Days Before Its Own Release, AI Security Inc. Issued Two Releases in 3 Days (Handling of Digital Arts Products on 2026-07-07, a CrowdStrike Partnership on 2026-07-09), GRCS Opened an AI-Driven Penetration-Test Trial Campaign From JPY 550,000 Tax Included (First 10 Companies), and First Recon AI Launched 'AI Security Runtime' Aimed at Shadow AI -- All Five Are Corporate Press Releases, This Card Has Zero Official Anchors, and the Timing Cluster Is an Editorial Observation, Not Causation
This card is the second, deepened edition extending ANK-2026-07-06-011 (the 'gap ledger' of AI security in Japan -- Chil…
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Taiwan large-cap companies (paid-in capital NT$5 billion or more): 242 have reported June 2026 revenue — 95 grew over 25% YoY, 21 fell over 20% YoY (vs. June 2025; company self-reported, unaudited; Anue aggregation)
Per Anue's (cnyes) July 21, 2026 tally (as of 07:55 Taipei time), a cumulative 242 Taiwan-listed large-cap companies wit…
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Taiwan June 2026 retail sales NT$421.3 billion, up 8.0% YoY (record for the month); wholesale NT$1.704 trillion, up 56.3% YoY (all-time high)
CNA reported on 2026-07-23 (reporter Tseng Yun-ting) that Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) Department of Sta…
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Jensen Huang's July 2026 Japan Visit and NVIDIA's 'Physical AI' Build-Out in Japan, the Full Record: NVIDIA Announces on PR TIMES a 140 MW 'Vera Rubin AI Factory' Co-Built with Noetra (Over 13,750 Vera CPUs + Over 27,500 Rubin GPUs; the Release Says It Provides the Compute Base for METI's 'FRONTia' Project), the Cosmos Coalition Expands to Japan (Fanuc, Yaskawa Electric, Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Hitachi, Fujitsu and Others Declare Intent to Join), Hitachi x NVIDIA Advance HMAX, Fujitsu and Three Robot Makers 'Begin Business Studies' (First-Party Wording, Not a Signed Contract), NVIDIA Supplies Toyota with GPUs and Dev Tools -- Cnyes's Media-Layer Framings ('Physical AI National Team,' 'Meeting the Lifesaver') Presented Side by Side with 10 First-Party PR TIMES Releases (Zero Official Anchors, cross_source_count=2)
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang began his Japan trip on 2026-07-15 (Cnyes media layer). This card uses 2 Cnyes reports as the me…
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CloudCut Vendor Kabushiki-gaisha 〇's Own Cross-Tabulation of 30 Price Changes (Feb 2025-Jul 2026, First-Party Sources Only): AWS Cut 17 of 19 (89.5%), GCP Raised 8 of 11 (72.7%); the Two Largest Hikes (EC2 Capacity Blocks) Carry No Official AWS Notice, Media-Reported Only (Vendor Tally, Not Re-Verified by This Site)
The vendor of the cloud-cost-reduction service "CloudCut" -- written literally as "株式会社〇" (Kabushiki-gaisha 〇) in the re…
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Taiwan Stocks Fell 2,953.71 Points to Close at 42,671.27 on July 17, 2026 — Media Reports Call It the Largest Single-Day Point Drop on Record (not independently verified by this site with the TWSE)
Per a Storm Media after-hours flash of 2026-07-17: the TAIEX weighted index opened at 45,234.08 on July 17, 2026 and clo…
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Kissho Yamanaka (Yamanaka Onsen, Ishikawa) Summer Stay Plan Jul 18-Aug 31, 2026: From 25,500 Yen Per Person With Dinner and Breakfast (2 Guests/Room; Tax and Service Charge Included, 150-Yen Bathing Tax Excluded; Excl. Aug 8-16; Company Release Self-Reported, Zero Verified Official Anchors)
H.P.D. Corporation (株式会社H.P.D.コーポレーション) announced via PR TIMES (PRTIMES#1586898, published 2026-07-18 19:20:01 JST) that…
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TSMC Announces an Additional US$100 Billion for Arizona, Bringing Planned Total U.S. Investment to US$265 Billion (Company Announcement of 2026-07-16; Not a Board-Approved Amount)
At its earnings conference on 2026-07-16, TSMC announced an additional US$100 billion investment in Arizona to build mor…
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Yokosuka City's 7th YOKOSUKA e-Sports CUP: 123 teams entered under a first-ever two-division format (city-named PR TIMES release of 2026-07-18, self-reported; publisher attribution not registry-verified)
PR TIMES release, publisher \"Yokosuka City\", 2026-07-18: the 7th YOKOSUKA e-Sports CUP (high-school VALORANT) drew 123…
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EVA Air's June 2026 cargo revenue was NT$6.652 billion (NT$66.52 億), up 48.34% from the same month of 2025 and the second highest for any June on record (company figure as reported by CNA on 2026-07-09)
CNA reported on 2026-07-09 that EVA Air disclosed June 2026 cargo revenue of NT$6.652 billion, up 48.34% from the same m…
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Taiwan's Audit Department certified FY2025 central government one-year-or-longer public debt outstanding at NT$6.071 trillion-plus, with the ratio below the 40.6% Public Debt Act ceiling
Core: CNA reported on 2026-07-24 (reporter Lai Yu-chen) that Taiwan's Audit Department certified FY2025 (ROC year 114) c…
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JAPAN Gyoza Awards 2026: Gold to 8 restaurants, 11 deli, 11 mail-order gyoza (private award)
Yaki Gyoza Association on PR TIMES (2026-07-27): JAPAN Gyoza Awards 2026 — Gold to 8 restaurants, 11 deli and 11 mail-or…
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Four Taiwanese Drone Statute Bills Entered Joint Committee Review in the Legislative Yuan on July 16, 2026, with the Executive Yuan's Bill Budgeting NT$210 Billion in Special Funds (CNA reporting, not independently verified by this site)
Four Taiwanese drone statute bills entered a first joint session of the Legislative Yuan's Economics, Foreign and Nation…
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The 'AI Employee' 62% Hoped For Was Shipped on July 6, 2026 by Survey Publisher INGAGE Itself; Effect Numbers Emerged Within Two Weeks -- Chiku Takubin Automated About 2,000 First-Response Calls per Month (All Corporate Releases, Not Independently Verified by This Site)
After the target card fixed the "AI for first response, humans for complex cases" division-of-labor thesis on July 6, 20…
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Taiwan's life insurance industry booked NT$767.35 billion (original: NT$7,673.5億) in first-year (new-contract) premiums in H1 2026 (January–June, counted with 'non-insurance contracts' included), up 51.6% from the same period of 2025; investment-linked policies took NT$426.268 billion (original: NT$4,262.68億) in first-year premiums, up 110.3% from the same period of 2025 — zero official anchors (every figure is as carried in cnyes.com's (鉅亨網) 2026-07-16 report, which attributes the data to H1 2026 statistics released by the Life Insurance Association (壽險公會, the source's short name); this site has not verified them against the association's official statistical documents); the original headline's 'Taiwan stocks run hot!' and 'demand doubles' are cnyes.com's editorial wording — the exact value behind 'doubles' is the 110.3% year-on-year growth versus H1 2025
cnyes.com (鉅亨網) published this report at 14:11 Taipei time on 2026-07-16 (cnyes#1539123, by its reporter 陳于晴, Taipei), a…
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The 'Movies on the Side' Era, Extended and Deepened (Follow-up to ANK-2026-07-06-012): Japan's 'One Week Only' Was a Starting Setting, Not the Final Outcome -- the Royal Opera's 'The Magic Flute' Extended One Week to July 16, 2026 at TOHO Cinemas Nihonbashi After Full Houses From Its July 3, 2026 Opening (the Series' First-Ever Opera Extension, per the Distributor), and the Royal Ballet's 'Giselle' Gets an Unusual Encore Run on July 17-23, 2026 After the Series Ended on July 9 (Distributor Credits Fans of the Anime Film 'Pari ni Saku Etoile'; Single Cinema, Distributor's Own Descriptions, No Attendance Figures); Taiwan's Restored Classic 'Lu Bing Hua' Re-Released July 8, 2026 (37 Years After Its Original Run) Passed 2 Million at the Box Office as of July 14, 2026 per the Distributor's Press Release Relayed by CNA (Currency Unit Not Stated, Not Verified by This Site); No Follow-up Data on China's July 3, 2026 Notice in This Site's Corpus as of July 14, 2026 -- Cinema Diversification Expands From Two Contexts to Three
This card is the extended, deepened next version of ANK-2026-07-06-012 (the 'movies on the side' era: China officially p…
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momo posted NT$9.82 billion June 2026 revenue and NT$53.69 billion H1 cumulative revenue (company self-reported; revenue, not profit)
storm Media's 2026-07-24 roundup carries self-reported June 2026 monthly revenue for six Taiwanese e-commerce companies:…
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Typhoon Bavi, Taiwan's Full Official Response Timeline: From Formation on July 2 to Shihmen Reservoir's First Spillway Release in About 618 Days on July 11
The actions of the Executive Yuan, the Ministry of Economic Affairs, the Water Resources Agency, the Central Weather Adm…
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