Focus Taiwan
Date: 2019/04/16
By: Christie Chen 

Taipei, April 16 (CNA) A women’s economic empowerment summit in Taipei has brought together hundreds of participants from more than 15 countries to discuss strategies and initiatives to empower women in Taiwan and the Asia-Pacific region.

“Taiwan is a leader in East Asia when it comes to empowering women, and we are proud to call it one of our closest partners in this important area,” Brent Christensen, director of the American Institute in Taiwan’s (AIT’s) Taipei office, said at the opening of Tuesday’s summit.

He announced two new U.S.-Taiwan initiatives that he said will make empowering women a central priority.

The first is called StartOpps, which Christensen said is for the United States and Taiwan to “go south together.”    [FULL  STORY]