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Taipei Mayor Ma Ying-jeou leads trade delegation to Boston, August 12-14

Taipei Mayor Ma Ying-jeou led a trade delegation to Boston from August 12 to 14. Mayor Ma was the keynote speaker at the 2004 Invest in Taipei & Business Alliance Forum in which he encouraged multinational corporations to establish R & D centers in Taiwan in a talk titled ˇ§Taipei ˇV The New Silicon Valley in the Asia Pacific Region.ˇ¨ Forum speakers also included Dr. C.K. Liu, Director General of TECO-Boston; Robert Ward, Massachusetts Office of International Trade & Investment; Chairman Lin Kuan-ming, Premier Venture Capital Corporation, and Tsay Shwu-chen, President and CEO, Well-Being Biochemical Corporation.

While in Boston Mayor Ma also met with Boston Mayor Thomas Menino and spoke at Harvardˇ¦s University's Kennedy School of Government on Taiwan's Future Challenges. He also visited the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab and Genzyme Corporation, and attended a dinner in Chinatown in which over 500 people from more than 30 organizations participated, including Ms. Chiling Tong, Associate Director of Minority Business Development Agency, U.S. Commerce Department.

August 17, 2004

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