Taipei, Aug. 9 (CNA) Thomas Wong (黃東偉) has taken up the post of the American Institute in Taiwan's (AIT) Kaohsiung branch office chief, the United States' de facto embassy announced on Tuesday.
There are 220 delegates representing 153 Taiwanese companies at the SelectUSA Investment Summit this week, the largest single delegation from a foreign market at the event, the American Institute in Taiwan (AIT) said yesterday.
The summit, which began on Monday and ends tomorrow, is in its eighth year and is being run virtually this year amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the AIT said in a news release.
It is being hosted by US Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo, with US President Joe Biden and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaking on Tuesday, an agenda showed.
In a pre-recorded speech, Biden welcomed representatives from