Our team had completed the "2018 Taiwan-Southeast Asia Regional Cooperation and Training Program " for the Toxic and Chemical Substances Bureau (TCSB), EPA. All of the tasks were fulfilled, including project start-up report, course review meeting, submission of execution plan and its verification by TCSB, planning progress report. In addition, project assistants Ms. Chu Ju-Ru and Mr. Liu Ke-Hong visited Vietnam from August 16 to August 21, 2018 in both Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi City. Two exchange meeting with 38 participants were hosted, the itinerary also included visiting Vietnamese environmental protection institutes, Taiwan Business Association in Ping Yang and three universities in Vietnam to exchange ideas and to promote this year's training program. Invitations of the training course were sent with the help of the Fire Bureau of Taichung City Government, several domestic universities, and NYUST this year. A total of 21 applicants were accepted to this program through the process of online registration, applications review and offer letter issued. The training courses were completed at the National Fire Agency Training Center, Taichung City Government and TCSB from October 15th to October 19th. With 32 lecturers on the list from last year’s database, we had expanded to 55 with firefighting and medical specialty this year. We also revised the 2017 edition of “Guidance for holding the International Training of Chemical Incident” according to our experiences this year for TCSB’s future references. We have completed all tasks assigned in this project, suggested several short, middle, and long term prospective on future development of training programs.

Southeast Asia, chemical incident training , emergency response