Taiwanese companies have swarmed to Penang in recent years until today the 293-square kilometer island houses the firms of over 130 Taiwan businessmen, employing more than 40,000 local inhabitants. This gives the island the highest density of Taiwanese foreign investment in the world.
今天面積不過二百九十三平方公里的檳城島，已有一百三十多家台商投資的企業，雇用四萬多位當地人，密度之高堪稱台商在海外投資第一位。