Two agreements, the "Cross-Strait Agreement on Economic Cooperation Framework" (ECFA) and the "Cross-Strait Agreement on Intellectual Property rights (IPR) Protection and Cooperation" were signed on June 29th, 2010 during the discussion among leaders of the fifth round of high level cross-strait negotiations....[more]

The Department of Health promulgated "Human Biobanks Act" (hereinafter ‘this Act’) this February. Hence, in order to meet the goals of this Act, biobanks constructing and using have had to attain the balance of enhancing biomedical researches and interests share. Biobanks constructors need to take considerations of international and domestic biomedical researching trends and niches to decide policies....[more]

Under the "Project to Expand Investment in Public Facilities", this March the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) has funded NT$544 million for municipal government to install solar panels on the buildings, which are capable of generating 2,617 kilowatts of power per year....[more]

Due to several online transactional disputes occurred between consumers and retailers in Taiwan during 2009, the Ministry of Economic Affairs of Taiwan has proclaimed the Online Retailer Standard Form Contract for online retailers to apply before disputes occurred. This administrative regulation would be effective in 2011....[more]

According to the World Internet Stats (http://www.internetworldstats.com), up to June 30, 2010, world internet usage has grown up to 448.8% within the period of 2000 to 2010. The new cyber era not only changes the views to the traditional business transaction model but also invokes issues to the invisible and intangible online environment. In order to face the wave of prospering cyber developments and promote the e-commerce, governments adopt different infrastructures and mechanisms to ensure and manage the cyber behaviors and online transaction security....[more]

The public often expects the government to provide a risk-free environment. In response to it, the authorities commonly seek to calculate and then regulate existing risks. As delving deeply into immediate demands of regulation, regulators soon notice the conceptual quicksand lying beneath the framing assumptions of regulation: there is no guarantee that the benefits of a regulation outweigh its disadvantages. In a word, regulation itself is risky....[more]

According to the research statistics, nanotechnology has been employed in over 100 marketing food-industrial items around the world. It is expected that the nanofoods market will expend upto 20.4 billion dollars in 2010 and Asia is predicted to be one of the largest markets. Roughly speaking, nanofoods and nanopackages are the two main fields of the nanotechnology application in food industry....[more]

Direct-to-consumer advertising (DTCA) of prescription drugs has been implemented in USA and New Zealand. On the other hand, restricted by Article 67 of the Pharmaceutical Affairs Act, advertisement of prescription drug is limited to medical professionals but not to the general public in Taiwan....[more]

Although, the modern medical technology can treat most diseases, however as of today, there´re still many disorders difficult to be cured (for example: heart attack, cancer or tissue damages), which are looking for treatments with more advance and effective therapeutic methods. Therefore, each medical-advanced country is developing the new advanced therapeutic technologies (i.e. gene therapy, cell therapy, and tissue engineering) rapidly, which also plans to infuse a new growing energy into the medical industry where its growth is getting slower....[more]