A 90-member group aimed at helping foreign wives was set up Sunday in southern Taiwan's Kaohsiung County, with 33 new female immigrants among its members. Dozens of officials from the county government and the ruling Kuomintang's Kaohsiung County branch attended the ceremony officially marking the establishment of the group. There are more than 20,000 foreign spouses in Kaohsiung County, with 7,200 of them from Southeast Asian countries. Liu Chin-tian, head of the KMT local committee, said some 258,000 children have been born to the 408,547 foreign spouses in Taiwan, and noted that newborns to these new female immigrants account for more than 10 percent of the new births in the country every year. This underlines the ever growing significance of the new immigrants in Taiwan's society, and assisting these foreign spouses of Taiwanese citizens to resolve their difficulties has become a very important task that the ruling party cannot ignore, he said. Liu added that the KMT hopes to achieve the goal through cooperation with the private sector. 