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Headline News by providing supplies if necessary, Stage Investment in October. The ROC Foreign Minister David Lin said. APEC Secretariat released a statement Republic of China () The ROC, as a major humanitarian aid saying it appreciates Taiwan’s contributes to maritime provider in the international community, participation and looks forward to security in Somalia has been keeping a close watch over closer collaboration, to benefit the Tung Kuo-yu, Representative of the developments in the crisis and will peoples of the region. Representative Office in the EU maintain communication with the and Belgium, and Admiral Sir James affected countries. As a major Burnell-Nugent, Senior Fellow at Cultural News international humanitarian aid provider, Oceans Beyond Piracy, signed a MOU the ROC has donated prefabricated Taiwan heavily on 10 September, officially launching housing units, among other things, to represented at the City the Maritime Communications refugees in Jordan and northern Iraq Sonic International Initiative. On the recommendation of who were left homeless due to armed the European Union, the ROC has conflicts in their own countries. Sound Arts Festival in provided Oceans Beyond Piracy with a Mons, Belgium grant of US$166,000 for the purpose of Four Taiwanese artists participated in the establishing maritime security centres 2015 edition of CitySonic#13, which in five Somali ports over a two-year started on Friday 11 September. Yao period. The donation will allow Oceans Chung-Han’s installation employs lasers Beyond Piracy to supply and fluorescent lamps to explore the communications equipment and difference between digital and analog sustainable power to the five centres. signals, while evoking a The ROC has proved itself to be a Economic News three-dimensional object. ‘Sound of major humanitarian and development aid donor in recent years, offering Taiwan commits to APEC Suitcase’ by Wang Chung-Kun contains a emergency assistance to victims of development initiative series of four installations, with which natural disasters, funding agricultural A Memorandum of Understanding the public is invited to interact by means projects, and providing emergency aimed at promoting human security of audio devices. Wang Fu-Jui medical assistance. This donation, and regional economic integration was specializes in sound art and interactive again, shows that the ROC is willing to signed by Taiwan and the Asia-Pacific art. He uses directional hypersonic cooperate as much as possible with Economic Cooperation Secretariat on 6 speakers to generate ‘sound beams’ members of the international September in the . Under which approach the public from different community, to make tangible the Memorandum, Taiwan will directions. Chang Yung-Ta’s work contributions to international focuses on sounds in everyday life, humanitarian aid efforts and maritime contribute US$700,000 until the end of which are then represented by signals security. 2015 to the APEC support fund and the policy support unit. Hsu Pei-yung, and data via visual installations Taiwan’s senior official to APEC said suspended in space. Mons is the the Memorandum underscores the European capital of culture in 2015. nation’s commitment to the shared objective of inclusive growth. Taiwan leads the way in boosting natural disaster resilience, and applying big and open data to improve emergency preparedness. Promoting EU-Taiwan Relations business continuity for small and ROC offers help for medium enterprises in APEC More information at Europe's refugee crisis economies, and reinforcement of the http://citysonic.be/festival2015/

The ROC Ministry of Foreign Affairs will cross-border supply chains is another maintain communication with relevant area of focus for Taiwan. Taipei is set to nations and non-governmental host the APEC Accelerator Network organizations to help address Europe's Summit and Global Challenge for Early worst refugee crisis since World War II

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