Huge crowd at the opening of Taipei Games Fair

During the opening of the Taipei Games Fair, around tens of thousands of game lovers crowded the cold as well as rain to scheme to the 2011 Taipei Game Show and check out the latest video as well as other online games.

Guests to the fair at the Taipei World Trade Center lined up to try number of games presented by the 50 designers from home and abroad exhibiting at this year's show.

During the show's main draws has been Microsoft, which is showcasing game consoles that have face-, voice- and gesture-recognizing sensors and are available for visitors to try.

While talking to media, a 27-year-old Kuo Cheng-yen, as he stood in line for a crack at Sony's 3D games said,  “I've played four (different games). I sweat a lot but it was a lot of fun.”

He said, “My monitors at home aren't as big, so the visual effect was better here.”

On the other hand, the basic highlight of the game show has been Sony Ericsson's latest smartphone model on which users can play PlayStation games.

On its opening day on Friday, the show attracted more than 50,000 visitors, and organizers said bigger crowds were anticipated on the weekend.

Companies from Japan plans to invest in Taiwan

As per the data released by a senior economics from Taiwan, after touring Japan said that number of Japanese firms are planning to invest in production facilities in the island, in part as of a bettering investment nature.

While talking to media, Vice Economic Affairs Minister Lin Sheng-chung said, “My visit to Japan Feb. 14-16 at the head of a delegation to solicit investment, he received commitments from Japanese businesses to invest a possible NT$8 billion (US$272.14 million) in Taiwan.”

The minister then told media, that number of firms from Japan reveals that Taiwan’s investment nature had turned for the better as well as expressed that they were planning to modify their offices or boost investment in the country.

Liu said, some of the companies anticipated their desire of working with island’s firms to jointly tap into China’s market, targeting potential policies stemming from the Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA) inked by the two nations in June last year.

Liu said, “This shows that Taiwan has become a springboard for foreign companies to tap into Chinese or Southeast Asian markets.”

Central Taiwan opens shipping farm products to China

According to latest news, around 5 containers packed with agricultural products which cost around NT$13 million were delivered to Taichung Port for shipment to Laioning region. This is the very first time that the central Taiwan city will sell farm products to Northeast China.

In the meantime, the containers, packed with honey murcotts, a type of tangerine, mushrooms, honey, plum wines, and Lishan tea, were sent to the city's port after a deal on the sale of the agricultural goods was inked by officials from Taichung and the Chinese province.

While talking to media, Taichung Mayor Jason Hu said, “It was the first time a province in northeastern China has bought agricultural goods from Taichung, and I anticipated that Liaoning would make an additional NT$27.5 million in purchases.”

According to him, “We described Taichung and Liaoning as highly complementary, and we target to see friendly interaction take place between the two sides from now on.”