Taiwan Today
Date: December 8, 2016
Local public and private sector organizations have unveiled a series of measures designed to add
James C. F. Huang (third right), director-general of the New Southbound Policy Office, and officials from ASTCC and Taiwan business associations in Brunei, Cambodia and Laos display memorandums signed between the groups and ATRI Dec. 3 in Ho Chi Minh City. (CNA)
fresh momentum to Taiwan’s agricultural sector and boost ties with Southeast Asia in line with the New Southbound Policy.
The government-supported Agricultural Technology Research Institute has recently signed cooperation agreements with eight Taiwan business groups in Association of Southeast Asian Nations member states.
ATRI concluded memorandums of understanding on fostering cooperation in technology transfers and industrialization with the Taipei City-headquartered Asia Taiwanese Chambers of Commerce (ASTCC) as well as Taiwan business associations in Brunei, Cambodia and Laos Dec. 3 in Ho Chi Minh City.
Since September, the research institute based in northern Taiwan’s Hsinchu City has also inked similar pacts with Taiwan business groups in Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam. [FULL STORY]
