Gary Song-huann Lin, director of the Taiwanese foreign ministry’s East Asian and Pacific affairs department, revealed at a news conference that Taiwan has made a shipment of rice to the Dominican Republic. “We hope our rice donation will help relieve food shortages in the Dominican Republic and further cement our bilateral relationship,” Lin said.
The director of the National Institute for Price Stabilization (INESPRE), Pablo Mercedes, said the rice is expected to arrive here today. The director of the government food distribution division, during an interview with Hoy newspaper from the Presidential Palace, furthermore denied that the government was already selling Taiwan’s charitable offering.