For two days in late January, a total of 173 delegates – government officials, legislators, scholars, business leaders, and representatives of civic groups – attended a National Energy Conference called by the Ministry of Economic Affairs. The group debated the crucial issue facing Taiwan following President Ma Ying-jeou’s decision last year to suspend construction of…
In the recently released 2015 Index of Economic Freedom conducted by the Washington, D.C.-based think tank The Heritage Foundation in association with the Wall Street Journal, Taiwan received its best score ever, ranking as the world’s 14th freest economy (up two places from last year) and fifth in the Asia-Pacific. The exercise measures such factors…
In recent years Taiwan has made great strides in bolstering its protection of intellectual property rights (IPR) by passing new legislation, tightening enforcement, and raising awareness among judges and prosecutors of the importance of the issue. The improvements in copyright, patent, and trademark protection – and in the past few years of trade secrets –…
Even after repeated food-safety incidents in Taiwan, the recent adulterated edible-oil crisis has come as a drastic shock due to the magnitude of its scope and the utter unscrupulousness of certain offenders. As an organization dedicated to ethical and responsible business practices as one of its core values, AmCham Taipei finds it deeply distressing that…
