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Aid workers find a new life in the Marshall Islands

DIPLOMATIC SERVICE Taiwan's aid workers on the islands say their work is daunting, but feel they are making a difference to the lives of ordinary people

By Melody Chen  /  STAFF REPORTER

Lu, who followed Minister of Foreign Affairs Eugene Chien's (簡又新) delegation to Kiribati earlier this month, will be starting agricultural work in a compound that used be home to a satellite station of China's.

Many cooperation programs between Kiribati and Taiwan have begun, Samuel Chen (陳世良), Taiwan's ambassador to Kiribati, said during Chien's visit there.

A local media agency, the Broadcasting and Publications Authority, which ran a story on the opening of Taiwan's embassy in Kiribati, is seeking assistance to improve its printing technology.

The agency consists of a publication manager, an editor, an assistant editor, two reporters, two printers and one typist.

The main function of the agency is to "produce a weekly bilingual newspaper aiming at informing local readers about a variety of events and issues that occur within the community, the government, the Pacific region and the world," said Tibewere Bobo, the publication manager.

The agency produces a weekly called Te Uekera meaning "The Tree of Knowledge."

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