Phillip Esch, narcotics attache for the US Drug Enforcement Administration’s Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Office, speaks at a forum in Taipei on Tuesday.
Photo: Hsieh Chun-lin, Taipei Times

The US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) plans to establish an office in Taipei to promote exchanges with local law enforcement agencies, a US narcotics official said on Tuesday.

Phillip Esch, narcotics attache for the DEA Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Office, made the announcement at a two-day international workshop on combating transnational crime and forensic science that opened in Taipei on Tuesday under the US-Taiwan Global Cooperation and Training Framework.

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