U.S.-based SemiLEDs Corporation recently laid the foundation of a new USD350 million LED chip project, Xurui Optoelectronics, in Nanhai in Foshan, Guangdong province.

China's "shanzhai" mobile phone manufacturers are planning to bring their production facilities to India to gain recognition of India's huge mobile phone market and obtain legal status for their products in India.

Kodak is opening a second production line for its Xiamen printing plate manufacturing facility to enhance the company's manufacturing capacity for offset products.

Taiwan-based PC maker Asus has announced that the company made a net profit of NTD6.497 billion, which equals CNY1.37 billion, in the third quarter of 2009, higher than its expectation of NTD2.97 billion.

Taiwan-based Hon Hai Precision Industry has announced plans to invest at least USD1 billion to build a new plant in Chengdu, capital of Sichuan province.

Taiwan-based computer monitor and flat-panel television maker TPV Technology has announced plans to build two new plants in mainland China and Mexico, respectively.

South Korean LCD manufacturer LG Display has announced that it will invest over USD3 billion to build a Guangzhou-based LCD flat-panel plant, which will be the company's first LCD flat-panel factory in China.

Taiwan-based Hon Hai Precision Industry and the international technology company Hewlett-Packard have reached an agreement with the municipal government of Chongqing on the construction of a plant for the production of notebooks and relevant devices.

According to reports in Taiwanese local media, Taiwan's economic agencies will begin in July 2009 to discuss possibilities to lift limits on Taiwanese companies' investments in mainland China's high-end semiconductor industry.

Home appliances giant Whirlpool has announced plans to adjust its manufacturing business in China and will close its washing machine plant, cutting 600 jobs.