Lin met with 17 leaders at APEC forum

One major contribution Taiwan made was to upgrade the APEC Digital Opportunity Center (ADOC) -- a measure to eliminate the digital divide by setting up Internet facilities in Vietnam, Chile, Peru, the Philippines, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea -- to ADOC Plus, to help remote areas of these nations sell products via the Internet.

The new project is also called "one village, one product."

Lin anticipates Taiwan playing a bigger role in APEC in order to expand its visibility on the world stage, as the forum is one of the few official international organizations of which it is a member.

Meanwhile, Teco Group chairman Theodore Huang (黃茂雄) told reporters last night that he spoke to China's president about the possibility of signing a free-trade pact. According to Huang, Hu said talks on a free-trade agreement between the two APEC economies were possible, but the Chinese president didn't elaborate further.