Taiwan’s lawmakers are expected to decide next month on whether to offer citizenship to students and skilled workers from Southeast Asia to help cope with a severe brain drain to the mainland, South China Morning Post reports. Quoting official government statistics, TIME reports that by 2015 over 720,000 out of Taiwan’s roughly 10-million strong workforce, 72.5 per cent of them with an undergraduate degree or higher, had moved overseas for better job opportunities. In 2016, President Tsai Ing-wen of Taiwan launched the New Southbound policy, which aims to realign Taiwan’s role in Asian development through reducing its dependency on China and improving relations with Southeast Asian countries.