Vice Premier Simon Chang (張善政) yesterday said that he would like Facebook Inc to set up a data center in Taiwan, following its opening of an office in Taipei.
“Of course I hope so. Who would not want that?” Chang told reporters when asked about the possibility of such a center on the sidelines of an inaugural banquet for Facebook’s Taiwan office.
Chang, a former Google Inc executive, said Facebook plays a crucial role in the daily lives of many Taiwanese.
He said that the Facebook office will introduce more innovative marketing tools and business models for local e-commerce operators, and help encourage young app developers.
In response to Chang’s comment about a possible data center, Facebook said it is open to all kinds of opportunities, but has not made a decision on that issue.
Facebook said earlier in the day that it would set up a small team in Taipei to better support local businesses, but did not say how many people would be on the team.
Taiwan Facebook Ltd was established in Taipei’s Xinyi District on Dec. 24 last year, with capital of NT$3 million (US$95,200), according to the Ministry of Economic Affairs.
Jayne Leung (梁幼莓), head of the Greater China region at Facebook, serves as the branch’s representative.
Facebook statistics show that there are 15 million active Facebook users in Taiwan per month, with 13 million of them connecting to the site via mobile devices.
A group of Taiwanese-American and Tibetan-American students at Harvard University on Saturday disrupted Chinese Ambassador to the US Xie Feng’s (謝鋒) speech at the school, accusing him of being responsible for numerous human rights violations. Four students — two Taiwanese Americans and two from Tibet — held up banners inside a conference hall where Xie was delivering a speech at the opening ceremony of the Harvard Kennedy School China Conference 2024. In a video clip provided by the Coalition of Students Resisting the CCP (Chinese Communist Party), Taiwanese-American Cosette Wu (吳亭樺) and Tibetan-American Tsering Yangchen are seen holding banners that together read:
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