TW Biz News｜WK 07/14 - 07/20

Every week, we'll select Taiwan's five business news from the previous week for your review.

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• 〔CommonWealth Magazine〕Taiwan's Top 50 Benchmark CEOs: Leadership in a Turbulent Era

From trade wars to the AI boom, entrepreneurs find themselves navigating an era where crises and opportunities intertwine. CommonWealth Magazine's exclusive Benchmark CEOs Ranking reveals how Taiwan's top 2.6% of business leaders forge new paths amidst a multitude of stakeholder interests.

• 〔Focus Taiwan〕Taiwanese production shortlisted for Venice International Film Festival

Taipei, July 18 (CNA) A theater experience co-produced by Taiwan has been selected to participate in the extended reality (XR) section of the 82nd Venice International Film Festival (VIFF) in late August. According to a press release from Taiwan's Riverbed Theater late Wednesday, "Blur," an XR experience co-produced with Canada's PHI Studio and Greece's Onassis Culture, will make its first overseas premier at the 2025 edition of VIFF's "Venice Immersive Selection and Competition" from Aug. 27 to Sept. 6 this year.

• 〔Taiwan News〕Taiwan’s Chunghwa Telecom helps complete Southeast-Asia-to-Japan undersea cable

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – Work on an underwater cable partly owned by Chunghwa Telecom and running between Southeast Asia and Japan has been completed, reports said Friday. The Southeast Asia-Japan Cable 2, also known as SJC2, connects Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Taiwan, Hong Kong, China, South Korea, and Japan over a distance of 10,500 kilometers, per CNA. The cable comes ashore in Taiwan at two locations, in Fangshan, Pingtung County, and Tamsui, New Taipei City.

• 〔Taiwan News〕Women’s taekwondo team secures Taiwan’s first gold at World University Games

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Taiwan’s taekwondo team won the country’s first gold medal at the Summer World University Games in Germany on Friday. On the second day of competition, the women’s poomsae team — Yang Chang-ying (楊長螢), Kuo Yen-yu (郭彥妤), and Chen Hsin-ya (陳歆雅) — earned gold with a combined average score of 8.849. Their performance edged out South Korea to claim Taiwan’s first gold in the team poomsae event, according to LTN Sports.

• 〔Taiwan Plus〕A Chip Odyssey: How Taiwan Built Its Semiconductor Empire

Taiwan has become a world-leading chip hub and a battleground as the U.S. pushes to reshore chipmaking. Will this change the game for Taiwan? The country's first feature-length documentary about the history of its semiconductor industry searches for the answer.