Asustek, Evergreen Marine among firms represented on Tsai’s trip (update)

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2016/06/19
By: Jeffery Wu, Sophia Yeh, Tai Ya-chen and Kuo Chung-han

Taipei, June 19 (CNA) Representatives of Asustek Computer Inc. (華碩) and Evergreen Marine Corp. (長榮海運) will be among those accompanying President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) on a visit to Panama and Paraguay later this month.

Executives from five other companies — Everest Textile (宏遠紡織), Fwu Sow Grain Products (福壽實業), General Energy Solutions (GES, 永旺能源), I-Mei Foods (義美食品), and Sanyang Motor (三陽機車) — will also be part of Tsai’s delegation, the United Evening News reported Sunday.

Tsai will embark on a nine-day trip to Panama and Paraguay — both diplomatic allies of the Republic of China (Taiwan) — on June 24. She will make transit stops in Miami on her way to Panama and in Los Angeles on her way back to Taiwan.

Tsai is scheduled to attend the inauguration ceremony of the expanded Panama Canal on June 26, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.     [FULL  STORY]