18 Participants from 14 TPOs visited "Ota City Industrial Promotion Organization" and a small-medium sized company, as Ota City is highly paid attention from both inside and outside Japan as a high-tech area with many SMEs. The participants understood much about Ota city from the lecture and the factory tour, and actively joined the question-and-answer session. (25, January, 2008)

      

ATPF had the 16th ATPF WLM at JETRO headquarters office in Tokyo, Japan. 32 delegates from 18 ATPF member economies attended the meeting. Participants exchanged information about the ATPF joint activities such as the Capacity Building Initiative Programs and the next Annual Meeting. They also positively discussed how to prepare for the next ATPF Joint Exhibition and suggested ideas of how to activate the communication through the new website. (23, January, 2008)

     

16th Asian Trade Promotion Forum (ATPF) Working Level Meeting will be held on 22nd to 24th January 2008. 16th ATPF Working Level Meeting will intend to prepare for the 21st ATPF annual meeting, and the topics of the annual meeting will be discussed. Moreover, ATPF Joint Exhibition and Capacity Building Initiative Program will be discussed at this meeting.(14, December, 2007)

JETRO held the Capacity Building Initiative Program (CBIP) for ATPF member officers in Tokyo on November 28th 2007. CBIP is implementing to help ATPF member TPOs, develop human resources. Participants visited factories of representative companies of food industry in Japan, and studied ideas and approaches that are necessary for accessing the Japanese market through the lecture and factory tour.(29, November, 2007)

     

Taipei World Trade Center (TWTC) hosted the 2007 Capacity Building Initiative Program (CBIP) from October 1 to 3 in Taipei . The theme was Effective Trade Promotion Strategies, and 25 participants attended the program.(9, October, 2007)