Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/08/18
By: Yeh Su-ping and Hsu Hsiao-ling
Belize City, Aug. 17 (CNA) President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文), who was
President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文, center)/CNA file photo
on the sixth day of her nine-day overseas trip, promised to deepen Taiwan’s cooperation with its Central American ally Belize in various fields, including education, economy, agriculture and infrastructure when speaking at the National Assembly on Friday.
In her address, Tsai announced that Taiwan will increase the number of Taiwan scholarship students from Belize and will invite young Belizeans for short-term vocational training programs in Taiwan.
For those who are not able to go to Taiwan, the country will work with Belize’s Institute for Technical, Vocational and Educational Training to improve the quality of local vocational education for the younger generation in Belize so that they will be better prepared for the job market, Tsai said.
In terms of the economy, President Tsai mentioned a delegation of Taiwan’s largest cocoa and coffee purchasers who visited Belize earlier this year. She promised to keep encouraging more delegations from Taiwan’s business sector to visit the Central American country and develop further trade relationships with the cocoa and coffee industries in Belize. [FULL STORY]