Since April 2, 2010, you can pay at Starbucks Coffee with your Taipei Metro Card (EasyCard).
Wait… you can also pay in the 4,500 7-ELEVEN stores in Taiwan, in the 2,500 Family Mart store or 1,500 OK-Mart stores, at the parking lots, directly on the park meter (!), in the taxi, at MacDonald’s, at the movies, [...]

Taipei City in innovating with the (very fast) deployment of the “U-bike” system, almost identical to the Vélib‘ system launched in Paris with great success on 15 July 2007. The service provider is Taishin Bank (!), the bikes themselves are manufactured by local world leader Giant and the payment system is managed by TSCC. The [...]

The largest taxi company in Taiwan, Taiwan-taxi 台灣大車隊 turns to Visa Paywave for the payment of taxi fares that usually range from the minimum fee of NT$70 (US$ 2 - EUR 1.6) to NT$400 (US$ 12.5 - EUR 9.5). The case for contactless payment in taxi seems indeed quite obvious: fares represent small amounts, taxi [...]