Taiwan, Israel sign scientific accord
TAIPEI, Jan 25 Asia Pulse - Taiwan and Israel signed an agreement in Taipei Tuesday that would promote more scientific cooperation and transfer of technology between the two nations.
In a ceremony presided by Wu Mau-kuen, minister of the National Science Council (NSC), Teng Sheng-sheng, Taiwan's representative to Tel Aviv, and Ruth Kahanoff, chief of the Israel Economic and Cultural Office in Taipei, signed the accord on behalf of their governments.
Wu said at the ceremony that Taiwan and Israel had many things in common, and that the accord was aimed at promoting each others' scientific and technological development through personnel exchanges, transfer of technology and exchange of information in seminars.
Lin Kuang-lung, director of the NSC International Programs Division, said afterward that Israel was known throughout the world for its scientific and technological studies despite its small area and population.
Israel is especially advanced in the fields of electronics, microelectrical machinery, opto-electronics, computer software, biotechnology, space technology, and telecommunications, identical fields of interest for Taiwan's national scientific and technology programs.
Although both Taiwan and Israel are shoring up their economies through developments in high technology, Lin said Taiwan placed more emphasis on production and manufacturing, while Israel focused on research and development, and therefore they could mutually benefit each other through the exchanges.
(CNA)
In a ceremony presided by Wu Mau-kuen, minister of the National Science Council (NSC), Teng Sheng-sheng, Taiwan's representative to Tel Aviv, and Ruth Kahanoff, chief of the Israel Economic and Cultural Office in Taipei, signed the accord on behalf of their governments.
Wu said at the ceremony that Taiwan and Israel had many things in common, and that the accord was aimed at promoting each others' scientific and technological development through personnel exchanges, transfer of technology and exchange of information in seminars.
Lin Kuang-lung, director of the NSC International Programs Division, said afterward that Israel was known throughout the world for its scientific and technological studies despite its small area and population.
Israel is especially advanced in the fields of electronics, microelectrical machinery, opto-electronics, computer software, biotechnology, space technology, and telecommunications, identical fields of interest for Taiwan's national scientific and technology programs.
Although both Taiwan and Israel are shoring up their economies through developments in high technology, Lin said Taiwan placed more emphasis on production and manufacturing, while Israel focused on research and development, and therefore they could mutually benefit each other through the exchanges.
(CNA)
posted by Marko at 1/24/2006 07:03:00 PM
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