Taipei, Taiwan
Taiwan's land register tells anyone who owns a parcel for NT$20 a page — companies and the state by full name, private people part-masked — and sale prices are published with addresses; half of Taipei's land is public, and the City is ground landlord of Taipei 101.
9 buildings · 6 with an owner established · 27 sources · 8 tier B · 1 tier A · prepared 2026-10-20
Can you find out who owns it?
Title in Taiwan is registered with the municipal land offices (地政事務所) under the Land Act, and the Regulations of Land Registration (土地登記規則, Art. 24-1) say 'anyone' (任何人) may obtain a Class 2 transcript (第二類謄本): it hides a natural person's date of birth, part of the name and ID number, but not the names of companies, government bodies and other non-natural persons. The Taipei Land Administration Bureau prices the national electronic transcript service at NT$20 per page. Sale prices are published per transaction through the Interior Ministry's actual-price registration (實價登錄), and, since the Equalization of Land Rights Act was amended on 30 Dec 2020, no longer in de-identified address bands (Art. 47); buyers and sellers are not named.
Is ownership public?Public, but one paid search at a time
Cost of one title searchNT$20 per page for land/building registration transcripts via the national electronic transcript service (building door-number lookup NT$10 per item), Taipei City Land Administration Bureau; Class 2 transcript open to anyone
Bulk ownership dataNone published
Sale pricesEvery sale, with its address
1
The marquee buildings
The towers that set the tone of the core, and who holds them. A price is the price a document states, on the date it states — not an estimate of what the building is worth now.
| Building | Use | Owner | Owner type | Last price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Taipei 101 (台北101) No. 7, Sec. 5, Xinyi Rd, Xinyi District (Xinyi planning district blocks A22/A23) |
Mixed use | Taipei Financial Center Corporation (台北金融大樓股份有限公司) — building; land owned by Taipei City Government under a superficies (地上權) to 2067 TFCC was formed in 1997 by 14 public and private firms and holds the City's superficies over blocks A22/A23; when it expires in 2067 the buildings pass to Taipei City free of charge, and TFCC pays the City about NT$700M a year in land rent (Wikipedia, citing TFCC). Ting Hsin's 37.17% was bought by ITOCHU (approved Feb 2018, NT$19.6B); in Mar 2025 six state-linked banks bought over half of it at NT$38.7/share. The 15.11% held by Union Trust, in CDIC receivership since 2007, was sold by tender: CDIC signed with Chengda Investment (呈達投資) and Hontai Life (宏泰人壽) on 10 Mar 2026 (CDIC). Price of that tender not in CDIC's release. |
Private company | —B |
| Taipei Dome (臺北大巨蛋, Taipei Cultural and Sports Park) No. 515, Sec. 4, Zhongxiao E Rd, Xinyi District (former Songshan Tobacco Factory site) |
Civic | Taipei City Government (land); Farglory Dome Co. (遠雄巨蛋事業股份有限公司) holds the BOT concession The Taipei City Government's own chronology for the Taipei Dome records that on 3 Oct 2006 (95.10.03) 'the City signed with Farglory Dome Co. (遠雄巨蛋事業股份有限公司)' the BOT contract for the indoor stadium development; the Department of Sports says Farglory Dome obtained occupancy permits in four stages between 2 Nov 2023 and 26 Mar 2024. Wikipedia's infobox gives the land as owned by the Taipei City Government and the building rights (superficies) with the Farglory group, whose Farglory Land Development (遠東建設) is the operator's parent; the concession term was not read from the contract. The 40,575-seat dome opened 2 Dec 2023. |
Government | —B |
| Taipei Twin Towers (台北雙星), Taipei Main Station special zone C1/D1 Civic Blvd / Chongqing N Rd, Zhongzheng District (Gongyuan section 1, parcels 188-6 etc. and 192 etc.) |
Mixed use | Not established a paid title search would answer it A joint development (聯合開發) over the Airport MRT's Taipei station: MOTC and Taipei City signed an administrative contract on 18 Aug 2005 making the City the competent authority; C1 is 5 parcels (13,078 m²) and D1 6 parcels (18,515 m²) (City investigation report). After five failed tenders DORTS signed on 17 Dec 2019 with Taipei Twin Towers Co. (台北雙星股份有限公司), SPV of the Blue Sky/Hung Hui (藍天宏匯) team: NT$60.6B investment, about 166,000 ping of floor space, NT$1.87B a year in rent to the City. Who owns which parcel and the final building-share split were not established from a document; the land transcript would answer it. |
Not established | —A |
| Taipei Songshan Airport (臺北松山機場) No. 340-9, Dunhua N Rd, Songshan District |
Civic | Republic of China — MOTC Civil Aeronautics Administration (civil side) and Ministry of National Defense, Air Force Command (military side) A joint civil–military airport opened in 1936. Wikipedia's infobox gives its owners as the MOTC Civil Aeronautics Administration (交通部民用航空局) and the MND Air Force Command (國防部空軍司令部), with the Air Force operating the military side and the CAA the civil side, through its Taipei International Airport office set up on 16 Apr 1950. How the airport land is divided between the two on the register, and its area, were not established from a CAA or MND document: the CAA hosts did not return pages to us. |
Government | —B |
| National Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall (國立中正紀念堂) / Liberty Square No. 21, Zhongshan S Rd, Zhongzheng District about 25 ha (park) |
Civic | Republic of China (state) — managed by the National Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall, Ministry of Culture The Hall's own page: completed in 1980, the grounds cover about 25 hectares; in 2007 the Council for Cultural Affairs (now the Ministry of Culture) designated the 'National Taiwan Democracy Memorial Park' a national monument, and in 2008 Taipei City registered it as a cultural landscape, giving it a double heritage status. The site was a Qing garrison, then the Japanese 1st Infantry Regiment's barracks, then ROC Army headquarters after 1949. State ownership is inferred from its management by a national agency; the register entry was not read. |
Government | —B |
| National Taiwan University main campus (國立臺灣大學校總區) No. 1, Sec. 4, Roosevelt Rd, Da'an District 115.49 ha main campus; about 34,164 ha in all (mostly forest outside Taipei) |
Institutional | Republic of China (state) — managed by National Taiwan University Wikipedia gives NTU's land as about 34,164 ha, roughly 0.94% of Taiwan, spread over Taipei City, Hsinchu, Yunlin and Nantou counties; most of it is the experimental forest in Nantou. In Taipei the main campus in Da'an covers 115.49 ha (the former Taihoku Imperial University), the Shuiyuan campus 6.78 ha (ex-National Defense Medical Center site, merged in 1999), plus the Chengzhong medical campus and hospital. As a national university, its land is state property in NTU's care; the register entry was not read. |
Government | —B |
| Taipei Nan Shan Plaza (臺北南山廣場) — Breeze Nanshan No. 100, Songren Rd, Xinyi District (former World Trade Center Hall 2) 193,843 m² (60,340 ping) floor area · 48 floors |
Mixed use | Nan Shan Life Insurance (南山人壽) — 50-year superficies; land owned by Taipei City Government After the Nangang Exhibition Center opened, Taipei City tendered the World Trade Center Hall 2 site as a superficies; Nan Shan Life won a 50-year superficies in 2012 with a planned investment above NT$45B, and the City gets about NT$200M+ a year in ground rent. The infobox lists Nan Shan Life as owner (superficies) and the Taipei City Government as landowner; the 272 m tower was completed on 26 Oct 2017 and its mall, run by Breeze, opened 10 Jan 2019. Nan Shan Life belongs to the Ruentex group. |
Private company | TWD about NT$27B (superficies premium) 2012 Wikipedia: 'nearly NT$27 billion' in bid revenue to the City, the highest Taipei land deal, above Taipei 101's NT$20,688.89M. B |
| Shin Kong Life Tower (新光人壽保險摩天大樓) No. 66, Sec. 1, Zhongxiao W Rd, Zhongzheng District 118,230 m² floor area · 51 floors |
Mixed use | Not established a paid title search would answer it Completed 21 Dec 1993, 244 m, once Taiwan's tallest; built on the site of the post-war Taiwan Railway Hotel. Floors B2–13 hold Shin Kong Mitsukoshi's Taipei Station store, and Shin Kong Financial set up its headquarters here in 2002. Wikipedia's Shin Kong Life page says the old Shin Kong Life merged into Taishin Life on 1 Jan 2026, which took the Shin Kong Life name and moved its head office into the tower. No source we opened says who holds title, or in what shares (the tower is strata-divided by floor); the land transcript would answer it, so the owner is left blank. |
Not established | —B |
| Shin Kong Mitsukoshi Xinyi Place (新光三越信義新天地, A4/A8/A9/A11) Songshou Rd 9 & 11, Songgao Rd 12 & 19, Xinyi District about 151,500 m² trading floor across four buildings (40,238 + 35,114 + 44,195 + 31,917 m²) |
Retail | Not established a paid title search would answer it Four department-store buildings opened 1997–2005 and linked by bridges — A11 (Songshou Rd 11), A9 (Songshou Rd 9), A8 (Songgao Rd 12) and A4 (Songgao Rd 19) — operated by Shin Kong Mitsukoshi, a Shin Kong group–Mitsukoshi Isetan joint venture. The operator is not the owner, and no source opened names the titleholder of any of the four buildings or their land. Other Xinyi stores have known landlords: Breeze Nanshan sits in Nan Shan Life's Nan Shan Plaza (above); Breeze Xinyi in the Cathay Landmark, which Wikipedia says Cathay Life built while its infobox names Cathay United Bank as owner — a conflict left unresolved. |
Not established | —B |
2
The core land
The most valuable ground in the city, and what the public record says about it.
Taiwan publishes an official value for every parcel: the announced current land value (公告土地現值), reset each 1 January as the base for land value increment tax, and the announced land value (公告地價) every two years for land value tax. Taipei's Land Administration Bureau names the most valuable parcels itself, so the top of the market is on the public record without a register search. About half of the city's registered land is public.
Highest announced current land value in Taiwan — Taipei 101NT$2,112,000 per m² (about NT$6.982M per ping), 2026
Taipei City Land Administration Bureau press release, 19 Dec 2025: Taipei 101 is the national 'land king' for the 13th year in a row; announced 1 Jan 2026.
Second and third — Cathay Landmark; Shin Kong Life TowerNT$2,026,000/m² and NT$2,000,000/m² (2026)
Same release: Cathay Landmark (國泰置地廣場) 'land queen' for the 3rd year; Shin Kong Life Tower by Taipei Main Station third in the city.
Change in Taipei's announced current land values, 2026−0.31% average (residential −0.58%, commercial/industrial +0.46%); announced land value +3.90%
Same release: 5,012 land-value zones; 25,227 sale registrations Sep 2024–Aug 2025, down 16.23% under mortgage credit controls; housing price index −3.14% over the period.
Registered land in Taipei by ownership26,081.53 ha: public 12,719.76 ha (48.8%), private 12,128.40 ha, public–private co-owned 1,233.37 ha; 421,034 parcels
Taipei City 2025 land administration statistics, table 'land area and parcels', as of 31 Dec 2025 (land registration section).
3
Who owns the town
At this scale the significant owner is rarely a trust or a fund: it is one or two local holding companies, a family in its second or third generation, and often the land around the town rather than the buildings in it.
Government is the largest landowner in Taipei by far. The Land Administration Bureau's statistics put public land at 13,055 ha in 2025, of which the national government (中華民國, managed through many agencies, with the National Property Administration holding the non-public-use residue) has 7,839 ha and Taipei City 5,148 ha — mostly in the mountainous northern districts of Beitou and Shilin. No register-based ranking of holders by agency is published; the bodies below are named from their own or government documents, and most publish no Taipei-only figure.
| Name | Type | Holding as the source states it |
|---|---|---|
| Republic of China (national government; non-public-use land managed by the National Property Administration, Ministry of Finance) Taipei City's table 'public land by ownership and area' (公地權屬及面積統計), year 2025 (民國114年度): national land 7,838.8875 ha of 13,055.4916 ha public land, including 2,583.38 ha in Beitou and 1,991.39 ha in Shilin. The figure covers all national agencies — ministries, universities, the military — not only the NPA's own non-public-use estate; the NPA's own statistics file sits in a robots-disallowed /download/ path and was not read. |
Government | 7,838.89 ha of national land in Taipei (2025)A |
| Taipei City Government (臺北市政府) Same table: Taipei City-owned land 5,148.4451 ha in 2025, up from 1,736.50 ha in 1982; largest in Wenshan (859.22 ha), Shilin (726.03 ha), Beitou (647.35 ha) and Nangang/Neihu. The City is also ground landlord of the Xinyi district's biggest towers under superficies — Taipei 101 (to 2067) and Nan Shan Plaza (50 years from 2012) — and of the Taipei Dome under Farglory's BOT. New Taipei City holds a further 68.16 ha inside Taipei. |
Government | 5,148.45 ha of city-owned land (2025)A |
| Taiwan Railway Corporation (國營臺灣鐵路股份有限公司) and the MOTC railway asset and debt management fund The Executive Yuan's release of 3 Mar 2022 on the draft Act establishing the corporation lists, as its first point, the company's assets and how it acquires them (draft Art. 9). Its release of 21 Jun 2024 says the 'TRA allocated assets and debt management fund' (臺鐵局撥入資產及債務管理基金) took over the old Taiwan Railway Administration's short-term debt and matching assets — mostly heritage buildings — to develop, sell or lease them, and the amendment it approved would exempt them from Art. 28 of the National Property Act. Taipei Main Station's railway estate is split between the two; no Taipei land figure was found. |
Government | not published for TaipeiA |
| National Taiwan University (state land in NTU's care) Wikipedia's account of NTU's campuses (see marquee): the Da'an main campus covers 115.49 ha and the Shuiyuan campus 6.78 ha; most of NTU's 34,164 ha is its experimental forest in Nantou County. |
Institution | 115.49 ha main campus + 6.78 ha Shuiyuan campus in Taipei; about 34,164 ha in allB |
| Chunghwa Post (中華郵政股份有限公司) Chunghwa Post's project page: the site at the North Gate (Zhongzheng District, Chengzhong section 1, parcels 31, 32, 32-1, 33, 53, 54 and 106) covers 14,228 m² (about 4,304 ping); its landowners are all government bodies and state enterprises — Chunghwa Post, the National Property Administration, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University and Taipei City — who agreed in principle at the Executive Yuan meeting of 5 Aug 2016 to redevelop by rights conversion, and Taipei City named Chunghwa Post the implementer on 22 Apr 2020. The Beimen post office, a city monument, becomes a postal museum. No Taipei-wide land total for Chunghwa Post was found. |
Government | lead owner of the 14,228 m² (7-parcel) Taipei Post Office urban-renewal siteA |
5
Who builds the houses
New-home building in this market: the volume, and the firms behind it. Ownership of a builder matters as much as its volume — a private-equity platform and a family firm behave differently.
Taipei is almost fully built out, so new homes come mainly from urban renewal (都市更新) of old walk-ups and from public land. No builder league table exists, and the listed developers' annual reports sit on hosts our rules exclude (doc.twse.com.tw and the old MOPS mirror are robots-disallowed; developers' own sites load their reports by script). The one builder whose Taipei numbers are on the public record is the City itself, which builds and lets social housing on public land. Private developers' Taipei unit counts were not established. Every sale, including pre-sales, is reported to the Interior Ministry's actual-price register with its address.
| Name | Type | Dwellings as the source states |
|---|---|---|
| Taipei City Government — social housing (社會住宅), Department of Urban Development Urban Development Department press release, 24 Nov 2025: in the three years to then the City completed 4,805 social-housing units and started 982; for 2026 (民國115年) it expects to start 2,456 and complete 1,975. The rebuild of the Xining public housing estate is planned to give about 1,000 social-housing units on completion in 2032 (民國121年). Units are let, not sold, and remain City property. |
Government | 4,805 social-housing units completed and 982 started in the current mayor's first three years (to Nov 2025); 1,975 completions and 2,456 starts planned for 2026A |
| Taipei Twin Towers Co. (台北雙星股份有限公司) — C1/D1 joint development Included to show where the largest private construction money in central Taipei is going: DORTS's account of the 17 Dec 2019 signing gives NT$60.6B of investment and about 166,000 ping of hotel, retail and office space, to be built within six years nine months of signing. It is not a home builder. |
Developer | about 166,000 ping (≈549,000 m², our conversion) of mixed floor space, NT$60.6B; not housingA |
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Commercial landlords
The commercial side, counted separately from housing: who holds the office, retail and industrial floor area.
Taipei's prime commercial stock is held mainly by life insurers and public-private ventures on City land under superficies rather than REITs. Insurers publish only nationwide property totals; building-by-building ownership comes from the cases above. The City itself is ground landlord of the Xinyi district's two tallest towers.
| Name | Type | Holding as the source states |
|---|---|---|
| Cathay Life Insurance (國泰人壽保險股份有限公司) Cathay Life's statutory disclosure 'investment property use and income' (maintained 21 Aug 2026, NT$ thousands): investment property balance 546,891,942 at 2026 Q2 (2025: 535,824,908; 2023: 500,344,338); rent 12,835,316 in 2025 and 6,546,128 in the first half of 2026. Not Taipei-only. A subsidiary of listed Cathay Financial Holdings. Its Taipei landmark is the Cathay Landmark (2nd-highest announced land value in Taiwan), which Wikipedia says Cathay Life built; title was not read. |
Public company | NT$546.89B investment property (Q2 2026, all holdings); rental income NT$12.84B in 2025A |
| Nan Shan Life Insurance (南山人壽) See marquee: Nan Shan Life won the City's superficies over the former World Trade Center Hall 2 site in 2012 for nearly NT$27B, the highest Taipei land deal, and completed the 48-storey, 272 m tower in 2017; Breeze runs the mall. Wikipedia lists Nan Shan Life as a Ruentex group company. |
Private company | Taipei Nan Shan Plaza, 193,843 m² floor area, on a 50-year City superficies (2012)B |
| Taipei Financial Center Corporation (台北金融大樓股份有限公司) See marquee: holds Taipei 101 under the City's superficies to 2067. Shareholders are mostly state-linked: after the 2025 purchase from ITOCHU, state-linked holders rose to about 72% (Wikipedia); the 15.11% held by Union Trust in CDIC receivership was sold to Chengda Investment and Hontai Life, signed 10 Mar 2026 (CDIC). |
Private company | Taipei 101 tower and mall; about NT$700M a year in land rent to the CityB |
| Farglory Dome Co. (遠雄巨蛋事業股份有限公司), Farglory group See marquee: the City signed the BOT contract with Farglory Dome on 3 Oct 2006; occupancy permits for the stadium, mall, office tower, hotel and 'culture city' were issued in four stages from 2 Nov 2023 to 26 Mar 2024. The land stays City-owned. |
Developer | Taipei Dome park — stadium, mall, offices and hotel (BOT on City land)A |
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Looked for and not found
Claims this page would have made if a source could be opened. They are left out rather than guessed.
- Ting Hsin's former 37.17% of Taipei Financial Center Corp, ITOCHU's 2018 purchase (NT$19.6B) and the 2025 sale to six state-linked banks at NT$38.7/share rest on Wikipedia, which cites TFCC and press reports; the banks' MOPS material-information filings would confirm them but the old MOPS host is robots-disallowed.
- The price of the 15.11% Taipei 101 stake sold by CDIC in 2026 — reported at about NT$8.6B (NT$38.72/share) — appears only in press that we did not open (technews.tw blocks Claude by robots.txt); CDIC's release gives the buyers but not the price.
- Who holds title to the Shin Kong Life Tower and the four Shin Kong Mitsukoshi Xinyi buildings — the Class 2 land transcript (NT$20/page) would answer it; Shin Kong Life's own site did not answer.
- Cathay Landmark: Wikipedia's text says Cathay Life built it, its infobox names Cathay United Bank as owner — not resolved.
- Taipei Twin Towers: which C1/D1 parcels belong to Taipei City, other public bodies or private owners, and the final building-share split under the joint-development contract.
- Taipei Dome concession term (commonly reported as 50 years) — not read from the contract.
- Taipei Main Station: how title is divided between Taiwan Railway Corporation, the MOTC railway asset fund, THSR and Taipei City's MRT — railway.gov.tw did not answer.
- Holdings of the Ministry of National Defense (robots-disallowed), Taipower (bot challenge) and Taipei Rapid Transit Corporation (an operator; MRT land is City-owned) — no figure sourced.
- Largest private residential developers in Taipei (e.g. listed builders) with unit counts — no annual report reachable under our rules; developers' Taipei counts not established.
- data.taipei licence terms — the portal is a script-rendered app and its licence page was not read; the Taipei land statistics used here came from the Land Administration Bureau's own PDF.
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Sources
- 土地登記規則 (Regulations of Land Registration), Art. 24-1 — classes of registration data and who may apply — Ministry of Justice, Laws & Regulations Database of the ROC · openA
- 全國地政電子謄本申領服務 (national electronic land transcript service — services and fees) — Department of Land Administration, Taipei City Government (臺北市政府地政局) · openA
- 平均地權條例 (Equalization of Land Rights Act), Art. 47 — actual-price registration and disclosure — Ministry of Justice, Laws & Regulations Database of the ROC · openA
- 內政部不動產成交案件實際資訊資料供應系統 (actual-price batch data supply system) — Department of Land Administration, Ministry of the Interior · registrationA
- 台北金融大樓公司 (Taipei Financial Center Corporation) — infobox, history and shareholding tables — Wikipedia (zh) · openB
- 中央存保完成台北101股權標售簽約 (CDIC completes the Taipei 101 share tender signing), press release 10 Mar 2026 — Central Deposit Insurance Corporation (中央存款保險公司) · openA
- 中聯信託投資股份有限公司處理情形 (status of Union Trust receivership) — Central Deposit Insurance Corporation · openA
- 臺北大巨蛋公開資訊專頁 — 大事紀 95年 (Taipei Dome chronology, 2006) — Department of Sports, Taipei City Government · openA
- 大巨蛋已取得全區使用執照 (Taipei Dome has occupancy permits for the whole site) — Taipei City Government (Department of Sports) · openA
- 臺北大巨蛋 (Taipei Dome) — infobox — Wikipedia (zh) · openB
- C1/D1（東半街廓）土地開發案與投資人正式簽約 (C1/D1 land development signed with the investor), DORTS newsletter article — Department of Rapid Transit Systems, Taipei City Government (臺北市政府捷運工程局) · openA
- 雙子星案調查報告 (Twin Towers case investigation report) — parcels and joint-development basis — Taipei City Government (www-ws.gov.taipei download) · openA
- 臺北松山機場 (Taipei Songshan Airport) — infobox — Wikipedia (zh) · openB
- 園區介紹 (About the park) — National Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall (國立中正紀念堂管理處) · openA
- 國立臺灣大學 (National Taiwan University) — campuses and land area — Wikipedia (zh) · openB
- 臺北南山廣場 (Taipei Nan Shan Plaza) — infobox and history — Wikipedia (zh) · openB
- 新光人壽保險摩天大樓 (Shin Kong Life Tower) — Wikipedia (zh) · openB
- 新光三越百貨 (Shin Kong Mitsukoshi) — store list incl. Taipei Xinyi Place — Wikipedia (zh) · openB
- 國泰置地廣場 (Cathay Landmark) — infobox — Wikipedia (zh) · openB
- 新光人壽 (Shin Kong Life, the merged company from 1 Jan 2026) — Wikipedia (zh) · openB
- 臺北市114年地政統計 (Taipei land administration statistics 2025) — land area by ownership; public land by owner — Department of Land Administration, Taipei City Government · openA
- 北市115年現值下跌0.31% 101大樓連13年全國地王 (2026 announced land values; Taipei 101 the country's highest for the 13th year) — Department of Land Administration, Taipei City Government · openA
- 「國營臺灣鐵路股份有限公司設置條例」草案 — Executive Yuan news (assets of the new railway company, draft Art. 9) — Executive Yuan (行政院) · openA
- 政院通過「國營臺灣鐵路股份有限公司設置條例」第10條、第23條修正草案 (railway asset and debt fund) — Executive Yuan (行政院) · openA
- 臺北郵局公辦都市更新案簡介 (Taipei Post Office public urban-renewal project) — Chunghwa Post (中華郵政股份有限公司) · openA
- 蔣市長施政3週年 都發局：社宅有成、降溫有方 (Urban Development Dept: social housing completions, press release 24 Nov 2025) — Department of Urban Development, Taipei City Government · openA
- 投資用不動產使用收益情形 (investment property and rental income), maintained 21 Aug 2026 — Cathay Life Insurance (國泰人壽) — statutory public disclosure · openA