Dubai-based carrier Emirates said Wednesday it will operate a flight from Dubai to Taipei on April 18 to help transfer Taiwanese nationals wishing to return home.The Boeing 777-300ER flight is among flights the airline will operate to cities such as Tunis, Jakarta, Manila, Algiers, Chicago and Kabul for similar purposes.
A shipment of 300,000 surgical face masks donated by Taiwan to the Philippines arrived in the capital Manila on Wednesday to help the neighboring country fight the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. Gilberto Lauengco, vice chairman of the Manila Economic and Cultural Office (MECO), formally accepted the donation from Taipei Economic and Cultural Office (TECO) Representative Michael Hsu (徐佩勇) at Ninoy Aquino International Airport in Manila.
Forbes magazine has highlighted President Tsai Ing-wen and six other women as national leaders with the best coronavirus responses. That was in an article published on Monday.
Staffers from National Cheng Kung University Hospital hosted a videoconference to share their front-line experiences combating coronavirus with 5,000 doctors and public health academics across India April 14 in southern Taiwan’s Tainan City.
Singapore's first lady on Monday updated a social media post, expressing gratitude for Taiwan's planned donation of surgical face masks to the city-state after a previous post expressing apparent reservations over the offer triggered controversy online over the weekend. In the original post published Saturday, Ho Ching (何晶), the wife of Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong (李顯龍), shared a link to an English-language news story on the Taiwan News website on April 10, which was headed "Ta
"Youth Experience Learning Project" of Ministry of Education's Youth Development Administration encourages high school graduates to conduct experience learning. The youth conduct domestic and abroad self-learning for 2 or 3 years through making proposals on their own to explore their own personalities, interests, and life purpose.
This summer of 2019/20 in Australia, a positive Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) event set up extremely hot and dry conditions for the historically worst fires that ravaged Australia. An unprecedented 20% of the forest has been burned, resulting in ecological havoc, environmental pollution, and enormous property damage.
The outstanding students from Indonesia took part in the selection held by schools in the ROC (Taiwan), and collaborated with Indonesia to cultivate talents. The total study period is two-and-a-half to three years.
The suspension of all inbound and outbound tours imposed on Taiwanese travel agencies will be further extended until the end of May in an effort to contain the COVID-19 coronavirus, the Tourism Bureau said Wednesday.
In March 2020, the International Cooperation and Development Fund (TaiwanICDF) launched the “Central Sulawesi Earthquake WASH Recovery Program (Indonesia).” This project marks the continued support of Taiwan to the earthquake affected population in 2018 in Central Sulawesi. The project will help the target population to gain access to clean water and sanitary facilities and reduce open defecation practices, so that they can rebuild their lives and livelihoods as soon as possible.
