The MOFA is helping cultivate the country’s next generation of leaders. Initiated by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) in 2009, the program for college and graduate students aged 35 and under encourages participants to develop an interest in international affairs, promote Taiwan’s profile overseas and strengthen ties between the country and its like-minded partners.
The number of overseas visits made to Taiwan by foreign nationals hit another record high in 2019, helped by double-digit growth in visitors from Japan and South Korea, the Tourism Bureau said Monday. Foreign visitor arrivals total 11.84 million for the year, a 7 percent rise from the 11.07 million visits recorded in 2018, the statistics showed.
China Airlines (CAL) said Monday it will begin direct flight services between Taiwan's main airport in Taoyuan and Chiang Mai in northern Thailand on June 23, in a bid to build its presence in Southeast Asia. The service will start with one roundtrip flight every Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday, using its Boeing 738 aircraft, the carrier said.
Taiwan-based EVA Airways has been ranked the world's third safest carrier for 2020, maintaining its place on the top 20 list for the seventh year in a row, according to the latest rankings, which were compiled by an airline safety and product rating review website.
To display the unique Hakka heritage through visual records, the Hakka Affairs Council organized an open-air photography exhibition. The “Exhibition of Photographs Highlighting the Romance of Northern Taiwan's Hakka Villages” is taking place from Dec. 26, 2019 through Jan. 5, 2020, at Taipei’s 228 Peace Park, and it will travel to the New Tile House Hakka Cultural District in Hsinchu County’s Zhubei City from Feb. 20 to March 1.
A special exhibition jointly organized by Academia Historica, the National Museum of Prehistory, the Dutch Rijksmuseum, and the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa titled "Beautiful Islands" will take place at the first-floor Cultural Gallery at the Xinzhuang Joint Office Tower in New Taipei City from Jan. 3 through June 30.
In support of the government’s New Southbound policy and to fill the labor gap left by declining birthrate, the Overseas Community Affairs Council (OCAC) has, with reference to domestic vocational high school cooperative education programs, in recent years actively promoted The 3+4 Vocational Education Program for Overseas Compatriot Students and encouraged overseas compatriots students to come to study in Taiwan.
A program encouraging Taiwanese manufacturers to hiring Indonesians directly rather than through brokers has started to deliver results, an Indonesian official said Monday. Speaking at a year-end review of his agency's major initiatives, Tatang B. Razak, head of the National Board for Placement and Protection of Indonesian Overseas Workers (BNP2TKI), was happy to cooperate with Taiwan's Ministry of Labor (MOL) on the program.
A tourism information office will be established in the United Arab Emirates early next year to promote Taiwan tourism to visitors in the region, the Tourism Bureau said Monday.
A large number of universities in Taiwan are successfully participating in a talent development initiative overseen by the Ministry of Education in line with the New Southbound Policy.
