Government procurement can play a key role in developing Taiwan’s software market. Taiwan has excelled at the development of information-technology (IT) hardware, in part due to the financial and other assistance provided by the government over the past two decades. But support on the same scale has not been extended to companies on the software…
The institute, the only Taiwan-based international organization, contributes to the global fight against malnutrition and poverty. A short distance from the Southern Taiwan Science Park and its cluster of optoelectronics and green-energy companies, an institute quietly engages in vital work in an entirely different sphere. What is now known as “AVRDC – The World Vegetable…
Proponents see an answer to world hunger; critics fear risk to human health and the environment. Concern over the safety of consuming food with genetically modified organisms (GMO) has increased in Taiwan, as it has in much of the world. Taiwan is a major consumer of soy, annually importing an average of 8 million bushels…
