Taiwan economy contracts, GDP growth falls to 1.5%

Taiwan Economy Contracts
Wall Street Journal
TAIPEI—Taiwan's economy unexpectedly contracted in the first quarter as a slowdown in China weighed on exports, which hurt domestic consumer sentiment and increased the likelihood that monetary policy will be kept loose to support growth.
 主計總處昨日公布第一季ＧＤＰ僅一．五四％，
 主計總處二月公布去年第四季ＧＤＰ達三．七二％，推估今年第一季ＧＤＰ也有三．二六％，預測經濟情勢呈緩步成長

Taiwan GDP growth falls to 1.5%
Financial Times
Taiwan's economy is heavily reliant on trade, particularly of electronic goods, and it has been hit by recent disappointing growth in China, where growth slowed to 7.7 per cent in the first quarter, as well as in the US, where GDP expanded 2.5 per cent ...