The Service Sector

• General Introduction
  • Taiwan's Service Sector (Updated 2005)

• Year 2007
  • Credit and Cash Card Debts
    • "Card slave" bill passes first reading in Legislature despite banks hostility (April 19)
  • Real Estate
    • Home purchase disputes top 2006 consumer complaint list (January 19)

• Year 2006
  • Credit and Cash Card Debts
    • Card debt ripples through economy (April 14)
    • Taiwan's card issuers plagued by worsening card debt (April 14)
    • Card-debt turmoil may extend to auto and housing loan markets (April 3)
    • Banks write off sizeable bad card debts (March 29)
    • Card-debt burden depresses private consumption (March 22)
    • "Card slaves" forced to stop using cards in January (March 16)
    • Credit card consumption reached 20.5% of private consumption in 2005 (March 16)
    • Interest ceiling would cut economic growth: study (March 13)
    • Government to treat card debt as social problem (March 10)
    • Ministry of Justice to set interest ceiling on card debts (March 9)
    • Measures taken to help "card slaves" (March 3)
  • Real Estate
    • Taipei's office vacancy rate drops below 10% in Q1 (May 26)
    • Housing prices hit new high in fourth quarter of last year (March 31)
    • Taiwan commercial real estate market heating up as foreign capital pours in (January 20)
  • Other Issues
    • Lukewarm domestic demand hits retail and restaurant industries (August 30)
    • Convenience stores continue break-neck expansion (May 19)
    • Taiwan promoting safety industry (March 30)

• Year 2005
  • Housing boom likely to continue, as far as market analysts can tell (December 2)
  • Company announces community subsides (November 4)