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A special electronics show aimed at enticing people in Taiwan into spending special economic stimulus vouchers ended Monday in Taipei with many people picking up new gadgets on the cheap. The Taiwan government last month started handing out NT$3,600 in vouchers to every citizen in the nation to stimulate the consumption. The multi-billion dollar program was aimed at stimulating growth by getting people out and shopping. To that end, the government gave vouchers to ensure people used them ahead of their expiration dates in September, instead of handing out cash that might be put in the bank. The voucher program prompted fair organizers in Taipei to open a 3C (computers, consumer electronics and communications) shopping exhibition at the Taipei World Trade Center. Each day, people were enticed to the event by offers of desktop PCs for a set of vouchers from one adult, or NT$3,600 or laptops for NT$7,200. Not everyone got such great deals, however. These deals were designed to bring pe...
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