Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Vietnam

Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Vietnam
駐越南台北經濟文化辦事處
Văn phòng Kinh tế Văn hóa Đài Bắc tại Hà Nội, Việt Nam
Agency overview
Formed 1992
Jurisdiction  Vietnam (excluding southern regions)
 Laos
Agency executive
  • Richard R.C. Shih, Representative[1]
Website Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Vietnam

The Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Vietnam (Chinese: 駐越南台北經濟文化辦事處; pinyin: Zhù Yuènán Táiběi Jīngjì Wénhuà Bànshì Chù) (Vietnamese: Văn phòng Kinh tế Văn hóa Đài Bắc tại Hà Nội, Việt Nam) is the representative office of Taiwan in Vietnam, which functions as a de facto embassy in the absence of diplomatic relations. It also has responsibility for Laos.[2]

Its counterpart body in Taiwan is the Vietnam Economic and Culture Office in Taipei.[3]

There is also a Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Ho Chi Minh City.[4] This has responsibility for relations with Cambodia as well as southern regions of Vietnam.[2]

In February 2014, a former Secretary of the Office was investigated by police for reportedly cooperating to take bribes to illegally grant visas to Vietnamese students two years earlier.[5]

History

The Hanoi office, along with its counterpart in Ho Chi Minh City, was established in June 1992.[6] This followed visits to Vietnam by the Sino-Vietnamese Industrial and Commercial Association (SVICA) and China External Trade Development Council (CETRA) in 1991.[7]

Until 1975, Taiwan, as the Republic of China, had an Embassy in Saigon.[8] However, it suspended its operations after the defeat of capitalist South Vietnam by the Communist North, which had maintained full diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China.[9]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Socialist Republic of Vietnam, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of China (Taiwan)
  2. 1 2 Asia Pacific Area, Bureau of Consular Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Republic of China)
  3. ↑ Vietnam Economic and Cultural Office
  4. ↑ Taipei Economic and Cultural Office, Ho Chi Minh City
  5. ↑ Taiwanese investigated for allegedly ‘selling’ visas to Vietnamese students, Tuoi Tre, February 13, 2014
  6. ↑ Foreign Policy of the New Taiwan: Pragmatic Diplomacy in Southeast Asia, Jie Chen, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2002, page 81
  7. ↑ The Vietnamese Economy and Its Transformation to an Open Market System, William T. Alpert M.E. Sharpe, 2005, page 188
  8. ↑ Maoists kill Chinese publisher in Saigon, Current Issue, December 5, 1971
  9. ↑ The Republic Of China Yearbook 1996, David Robertson, Taylor & Francis, 1996, page 652
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