32 corporations and groups join hands with government to offer info at stores and online

Taiwan News 
Date: 2018/03/28
By: Matthew Strong, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

32 Taiwanese companies and groups launch drugs prevention campaign. (By Taiwan News)

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – The CEO of I-Mei Foods Co. (義美食品), Luis Ko (高志明), and movie director Wu Nien-chen (吳念真) led an alliance of 32 corporations and organizations Wednesday to launch a prevention campaign against illegal drugs.

The campaign answered a call by the Taiwan Advertising Council for its member companies to include drugs prevention as part of their operations and to cooperate with the government. The organizers presented their campaign at a news conference at the Ministry of Justice Wednesday morning.

Ko, who also chairs the Taiwan Advertising Council, drew a parallel with the era of Japanese occupation, when opium was a plague which incurred the anger of democracy activist Chiang Wei-shui (蔣渭水).    [FULL  STORY]