Taiwan recently obtained consent from the Indian government to set up a second representative office, the Taiwanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs said. The new office would be set up in Chennai to complement the work of Taiwan’s representative office in New Delhi, providing services and assistance to Taiwanese businesspeople, Taiwanese students and tourists in South India, according to a report in Taipei Times. The Chennai office would also serve Taiwan-registered fishing boats operating on the Indian Ocean, of which there were 542 last year, the ministry said. Taiwan and India first established reciprocal representative offices in 1995.
With Taiwanese organisations’ frequent visits to southern India and Sri Lanka to provide humanitarian and medical services, the new representative office would also help reinforce bilateral cooperation in humanitarian assistance, it said. The ministry also said that India is one of the countries with which Taiwan is seeking to develop closer ties, and that it has started a feasibility study for a bilateral economic agreement with India. Meanwhile, the Taipei Economic and Cultural Center Representative in New Delhi, Ong Wenchyi recently said direct air services between Taiwan and South India would be launched within a year to increase exchanges between the two countries. Ong said the Taiwanese office has been in discussion with the Indian government on the issue and hoped that the goal would be realized in a year. Direct air services would make the establishment of the Chennai office more meaningful because it would serve more Taiwanese in the region, he added. Ong said the new office would open early next year, saying that the Indian government hoped it could be established “as soon as possible.”
Click here to see the original article>With Taiwanese organisations’ frequent visits to southern India and Sri Lanka to provide humanitarian and medical services, the new representative office would also help reinforce bilateral cooperation in humanitarian assistance, it said. The ministry also said that India is one of the countries with which Taiwan is seeking to develop closer ties, and that it has started a feasibility study for a bilateral economic agreement with India. Meanwhile, the Taipei Economic and Cultural Center Representative in New Delhi, Ong Wenchyi recently said direct air services between Taiwan and South India would be launched within a year to increase exchanges between the two countries. Ong said the Taiwanese office has been in discussion with the Indian government on the issue and hoped that the goal would be realized in a year. Direct air services would make the establishment of the Chennai office more meaningful because it would serve more Taiwanese in the region, he added. Ong said the new office would open early next year, saying that the Indian government hoped it could be established “as soon as possible.”