Premier Lin Chuan attended the Overseas Community Affairs Council’s (OCAC) 2017 Job Fair for Southeast Asia today, saying Taiwan deeply values people-to-people exchanges with Southeast Asia. He hopes that Southeast Asians who work or study in Taiwan can take those experiences home and expand their ties with Taiwanese businesses there.
The ROC Ministry of Foreign Affairs will be relaxing visa rules for visitors from countries covered by the New Southbound Policy starting June 1.
President Tsai further stated that the New Southbound Policy does not focus exclusively on business, trade, and tourism. Taiwan and the Philippines are close neighbors, so hopefully in the future we will be able to further enhance our interactions on all fronts.
We are also actively promoting the New Southbound Policy to strengthen our linkages with Southeast and South Asian countries, and Australia and New Zealand in the areas of economics and trade, as well as science, technology and culture.
Recipients of Taiwan Fellowship grants awarded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs gave presentations on topics concerning the implications of the government’s New Southbound Policy March 14 at National Central Library in Taipei City.
Following a briefing by the Ministry of Education (MOE) on a program to cultivate human resources under the New Southbound Policy, Premier Lin Chuan today said the program has produced initial results. He then directed the MOE to continue the good work while keeping pace with the needs and objectives for personnel training and industry development in the countries targeted by New Southbound Policy.
Taiwan must play a constructive role in the Asian region. We will vigorously promote a New Southbound Policy to strengthen cooperation with the countries of the ASEAN region and South Asia, as well as Australia and New Zealand.
The government’s New Southbound Policy is producing early results as Taiwan’s exports to the targeted countries in December of 2016 jumped 20.1 percent year-on-year to US$5.37 billion. In particular, exports to the 10 members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) showed clear signs of rebounding by soaring 22.9 percent to US$4.72 billion, the Executive Yuan’s Office of Trade Negotiations said today.
On the morning of December 31, President Tsai Ing-wen attended a year-end press conference at the Presidential Office for the domestic and international press corps. In her year-end address to the assembled journalists, President Tsai declared that the government during the coming year would make an all-out effort to boost the economy, continue forward with major reforms, respond to changing international conditions, maintain peace and stability, and seriously address divisive issues. The presid
