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<TYPE>EX-99.A CHARTER
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<FILENAME>att77q1a.txt
<DESCRIPTION>CERTIFICATE OF AMENDMENT OF CERTIFICATE IF INCORPORATION
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Delaware
The First State

	I, Jeffrey W. Bullock, Secretary of the
State of the state of Delaware, do hereby certify
the attached is a true and correct copy of the
certificate of amendment of "The Taiwan Fund,
Inc.", filed in this office on the twelfth day
of July, A.D. 2010, at 1:14 o'clock P.M.

	A filed copy of this certificate has
been forwarded to the New Castle County of Deeds.



State of Delaware
Certificate of Amendment
of Certificate if Incorporation

The corporation organized and existing under and by
virtue of the General Corporation Law of the State
of Delaware does hereby certify:
FIRST: That at a meeting of the Board of Directors
of The Taiwan Fund, Inc. resolutions were duly
adopted setting forth a proposed amendment of the
Certificate of Incorporation of said corporation,
declaring said amendment to be advisable and
calling a meeting of the stockholders of said
corporation for consideration thereof. The
resolution setting forth the proposed amendment
is as follows:
RESOLVED, that the Certificate of Incorporation of
this corporation be amended by changing the
Article thereof numbered "Fourth" so that, as
amended, said Article shall be and read as follows:
Capital Stock. The total number of shares of
stock which the Corporation shall have authority
to issue is 100,000,000 shares of Common Stock,
par value 0.01 per share "Common Stock".

SECOND: That thereafter, pursuant to resolution
of its Board of Directors, a special meeting of
the stockholders of said corporation was duly
called and held upon notice in accordance with
Section 222 of the General Corporation Law of
the State of Delaware at whcih meeting the
necessary number of shares as required by
State of Delaware at which meeting the necessary
number of shares as required by statute were
voted in favor of the amendment.
THIRD: That said amendment was duly adopted in
accordance with the provisions of Section 242 of
the General Corporation Law of the State of
Delaware.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, said corporation has caused
this certificate to be signed this 12th day of
July, 2010.

			By: /s/ Tracie A. Coop
		     Title: Assistant Secretary
		      Name: Tracie A. Coop
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