TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Reporters without Borders officially opened its first Asian office in Taipei on Tuesday, with a warm welcome for the media rights watchdog from President Tsai Ing-wen. Also known by its French name Reporters sans frontiers, RSF will use its Taipei bureau to focus on East Asian territories including China, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, North Korea and Mongolia. During a separate meeting with the two a day earlier at the Presidential Office, Tsai said Taiwan welcomed RSF and that she believed the local office would be the group's best worldwide. "Taiwan will become the home of Reporters without Borders," she said. In April, Deloire told The New York Times that actually "Hong Kong was the place where we wanted to open an office in Asia."

Source: The China Post July 18, 2017 08:37 UTC