"Since anti-terrorism has become a global trend, Taiwan will follow the lead of the United States, Japan, Canada and the European Union in imposing the biometrics requirement for foreign nationals entering the country," the ministry said.
The requirement is part of a series of new measures in a proposed revision of rules governing foreign applicants for Taiwan resident visas.
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Chih-Hong Sun, Director of the Taiwan GIS Centre (TGIC) told Futuregov Asia Pacific that the TGIC is developing an application portal that would use a Spatial Decision Support System (SDSS) to enable better reusing, sharing, and managing of spatial information.
Yang Chang-hsun, secretary of the school’s development center, said there are over 2,800 people involved with the institution. On average, about 100 of them go for an appointment at the Health Center during any given week. When a holiday has displaced the clinic hours, demand can rise, as was the case with 164 students being seen Oct. 26.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) and the National Immigration Agency (NIA) yesterday jointly announced that a total of seven sets of the newly-introduced system will be first tested at the Shuitou Port (水頭港) in Kinmen, one of the entry-points for passengers making use of the Mini Three links.
Once the trial runs are successful in the outlying island, the scheme will later be expanded to two airports in northern Taiwan, Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport and Taipei Songshan Airport, and Kaohsiung International Airport in the south.
Read more: TW: Gov't to begin automated border control system trial
The experts made the statement during a forum yesterday, organized by the Foundation of Taiwan Medical Development.
During the news conference, a demonstration was held to showcase how cloud computing may have medical applications: databases of health and medical records of different races of people were uploaded to the Internet for download by hospitals, which can then design preventive care programs based on these databases.