Manufacturing activity improves but remains in contraction mode

Taiwan's manufacturing activity showed signs of improving in April due to a recovery in new orders and production, but an index gauging conditions in the sector still showed a contraction, the Chung-Hua Institution for Economic Research (CIER) said Thursday.

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