Mongolian Minister for Social Welfare and Labor Shi Batbayar will visit Taiwan next week to attend a conference and discuss a plan allowing Mongolian workers into the country, an official said yesterday.
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Batbayar will deliver a speech on Mongolia's social welfare and youth programs, Tseng said.
During his stay, Batbayar will also meet Council of Labor Affairs Chairwoman Chen Chu (
Officials from the Department of Health recently inspected Mongolian hospitals designated for testing the health of workers bound for Taiwan.
Batbayar will also visit the Eden Social Welfare Foundation, which will donate seven notebook computers to Batbayar's ministry as a contribution to his government's program upgrading computer infrastructure, Tseng said.
The ministry has also invited four Mongolian politicians -- Mongolian Democratic Party Chairman M. Enkhsaikhan, former finance minister P. Tsagaan, Legislator J. Narantsatsralt and T. Sukhbaatar, director of the Democratic Party's international affairs department -- to visit Taiwan as part of its effort to boost relations between the countries.
Despite an absence of formal diplomatic ties, Tseng said, exchanges and cooperation have grown steadily in recent years.
On Wednesday, the government donated 7,000 tonnes of rice to poor families in Mongolia. The rice was donated by the Council of Agriculture, while World Vision Taiwan handled the task of delivering the food, Tseng said.
The delivery of rice is an expensive task since it must first be shipped from Taipei to Hong Kong to Tianjin, and then to Ulaanbaatar by rail.
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