Taiwanese banks to fund OCD overseas infrastructure aid projects

A US$3.5 billion loan fund from Taiwan's Official Development Assistance (ODA) program aimed at helping countries covered by the government's New Southbound Policy with infrastructure and major development projects will come from Taiwanese commercial banks rather than from the government coffers, Cabinet spokesman Hsu Kuo-yung (徐國勇) said Monday.

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