Taiwan sees 48% increase in FDI in Q1 .of 2015

TAIPEI - Foreign direct investment in Taiwan surged 48.19% on-year to US$1.24 billion in the first quarter of 2015. Of 853 new investments, the biggest were capital injections of US$76.06 million and US$47.55 million into Hsinchu County-based Stats Chippac Taiwan Semiconductor Corp. and Taipei City-headquartered CSB Battery Co. Ltd. - the former by Singapore’s Bloomeria Ltd. and the latter by Japan’s Hitachi Chemical Co. Ltd.

Retail and whole sales accounted for 32.68% of total FDI, followed by financial banking and insurance at 21.62% and real estate at 7.31 %. www.taiwantoday.tw (ATI).