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Taiwan’s Compal Electronics, said to be the world’s second largest contract laptop PC maker, expects monthly shipments from Vietnam to reach up to one million units by the end of 2009, as it aims to make half its computers there by 2013. Compal currently makes nearly all of its computers at a complex near Shanghai, where costs have been growing amid rising living standards, and a new labor law that went into effect in January is expected to push costs up even further. The build-up for 2009, which would give the company capacity to ship up to 12 million units annually by year-end, compares with Compal’s target to ship a total of 32 million units this year. Source: The Bangkok Post | 
