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Energy crisis drives high-tech firms back to Taiwan TAIPEI - The deteriorating power supply situation in mainland China has pushed some Taiwan investors to relocate back home, with the Southern Taiwan Science Park having received NT$1.515 billion (US$44.5 million) in investments this year as of last week, according to a park administration official. Tai Chien, director of the Southern Taiwan Science Park Administration, said that the investment capital came from six high-tech companies, including three precision machinery, two electronics goods makers and one chemical material producer. One of them began construction August 13, he added. Worsening power shortages in mainland...