Vietnam is set to become Taiwan's gateway to take high-tech expertise to other Southeast Asian countries and to bring brain power from the region back into Taiwan, the Taipei Times learned from the National Science Council (NSC) yesterday.
According to NSC Deputy Minister Shieh Ching-jyh (
The council currently supervises 13 science and technology divisions in major cities in the US, Canada, UK, Germany, Belgium, France, Japan, Russia and Australia.
"In Vietnam, burgeoning investment activities involving Taiwan's private sector are forcing the government to take the transfer of technological know-how in the region more seriously," Shieh said.
Taiwan is currently ranked as one of Vietnam's leading foreign investors, according to the council.
Shieh said that the new division would promote technology transfer projects in Southeast Asian countries and even India in order to create greater impacts in the field of science and technology development.
"For example, Taiwan's experience in establishing and running high-tech science parks successfully has caught the interest of developing countries in the region," Shieh said.
Through the establishment of research and development centers in southeast Asian countries, the council hopes to help these countries based on experience gained from Taiwan's own technological development.
NSC officials said the move would strengthen Taiwan's influence in certain fields involving advanced technologies, including nanotechnology and biotechnology, in the APEC Science and Technology Network. It would also create more opportunities for high-level Taiwanese officials, academics and experts to converse with their counterparts in these countries.
According to the council, major fields of cooperation will include the promotion of sustainable development, geological research, the prevention of marine pollution, remote sensing technology, disaster control and training programs for operating precision instruments.
"The outstanding working environment and high-tech facilities in Taiwan are always attractions to overseas high-tech professionals in developing countries," said Chen Chien-jen (
Instrument Development Center.
The council's National Center for Research on Earthquake Engineering has invited high-tech professionals in Vietnam and the Philippines to Taipei for disaster prevention workshops over the last four years. These expertise-transfer programs were prompted by the 7.3-magnitude earthquake on Sept. 21, 1999, which claimed more than 2,400 lives.
TRAGEDY: An expert said that the incident was uncommon as the chance of a ground crew member being sucked into an IDF engine was ‘minuscule’ A master sergeant yesterday morning died after she was sucked into an engine during a routine inspection of a fighter jet at an air base in Taichung, the Air Force Command Headquarters said. The officer, surnamed Hu (胡), was conducting final landing checks at Ching Chuan Kang (清泉崗) Air Base when she was pulled into the jet’s engine for unknown reasons, the air force said in a news release. She was transported to a hospital for emergency treatment, but could not be revived, it said. The air force expressed its deepest sympathies over the incident, and vowed to work with authorities as they
A tourist who was struck and injured by a train in a scenic area of New Taipei City’s Pingsi District (平溪) on Monday might be fined for trespassing on the tracks, the Railway Police Bureau said yesterday. The New Taipei City Fire Department said it received a call at 4:37pm on Monday about an incident in Shifen (十分), a tourist destination on the Pingsi Railway Line. After arriving on the scene, paramedics treated a woman in her 30s for a 3cm to 5cm laceration on her head, the department said. She was taken to a hospital in Keelung, it said. Surveillance footage from a
BITTERLY COLD: The inauguration ceremony for US president-elect Donald Trump has been moved indoors due to cold weather, with the new venue lacking capacity A delegation of cross-party lawmakers from Taiwan, led by Legislative Speaker Han Kuo-yu (韓國瑜), for the inauguration of US president-elect Donald Trump, would not be able to attend the ceremony, as it is being moved indoors due to forecasts of intense cold weather in Washington tomorrow. The inauguration ceremony for Trump and US vice president-elect JD Vance is to be held inside the Capitol Rotunda, which has a capacity of about 2,000 people. A person familiar with the issue yesterday said although the outdoor inauguration ceremony has been relocated, Taiwan’s legislative delegation has decided to head off to Washington as scheduled. The delegation
Another wave of cold air would affect Taiwan starting from Friday and could evolve into a continental cold mass, the Central Weather Administration (CWA) said yesterday. Temperatures could drop below 10°C across Taiwan on Monday and Tuesday next week, CWA forecaster Chang Chun-yao (張竣堯) said. Seasonal northeasterly winds could bring rain, he said. Meanwhile, due to the continental cold mass and radiative cooling, it would be cold in northern and northeastern Taiwan today and tomorrow, according to the CWA. From last night to this morning, temperatures could drop below 10°C in northern Taiwan, it said. A thin coat of snow
RSS