How to protect animals while also ensuring consumer safety? A bill currently before the Legislative Yuan would prohibit the manufacture and sale in Taiwan of cosmetics products tested on animals when alternative methods are available. It would authorize the Taiwan Food and Drug Administration (TFDA) to designate the alternative methods specified for industry use. If…
Progress in the past half year has been encouraging on numerous front. By Don Shapiro AmCham Taipei’s Taiwan White Paper is published annually in June, making this month the halfway point in the Chamber’s advocacy cycle and therefore an opportune time to review the progress of the 2014 White Paper issues. Nearly all of the…
Moving up to the next level remains a challenge. by Don Shapiro The annual Doing Business survey sponsored by the World Bank always provides a useful yardstick for how Taiwan’s business environment stacks up against those of other countries. This year, with Taiwan – or Taiwan, China as the World Bank insists on calling…
