MOFA planning Arizona office: sourceOVERSEAS CITIZENS: There is a growing Taiwanese community in Arizona, who have hoped for direct flights to Taiwan and a representative office, the foreign minister saidBy Su Yong-yao / Staff reporterThe Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) is planning to establish a representative office in Phoenix, Arizona, with the goal of opening within this year, a source familiar with the issue said yesterday. The government is preparing to set up a representative office in Phoenix, where Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) and several other Taiwanese investments are located, the source said. Taiwan has representative offices in Washington, Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Guam, Honolulu, Houston, Denver, Los Angeles, Miami, San Francisco and Seattle. The Phoenix office would be the first new office established in the US in nearly 40 years. To date, 22 state governments and Guam have set up representative offices in Taiwan.
