Date: Thursday, 2nd December 2010
Venue: 4F VIP Room 5-7, Regent Hotel

Introduction：
Regional Economic Integration (REI) in the Asia-Pacific region has been gathering momentum through ASEAN and APEC, in particular in the forms of ASEAN+N, FTAAP, TPP, and also APc. In the mist of these developments, Taiwan and India have both indicated strong desire to be active participants, for they are major countries with the economic competitiveness to make substantial contributions to REI. Taiwan has shown strength in information technology (IT) especially the hardware capacity such as semiconductor and personal computer manufacturing. India, meanwhile, has become a world flagship in IT software designs. Both countries have experienced a tremendous economic leap thanks to their advancing and improving IT capability. Working together, Taiwan and India could offer tremendous contribution to the REI process.

Accordingly, the Chinese Taipei Pacific Economic Cooperation Committee (CTPECC) and Taiwan Institute of Economic Research (TIER) consider it important to take a closer look at the perspectives of Taiwan and India in Asia-Pacific REI. The purpose of the seminar is to examine the role that Taiwan and India can play in strengthening REI in the Asia-Pacific region. In addition, the seminar will explore and identify potential opportunities and challenges for Taiwan and India as well as for the region.