Premier Lai Ching-te touted Taiwan’s world-leading recycling efforts during opening remarks at the 20th anniversary exhibition of the Environmental Protection Administration’s Resource Recycling Fund on Tuesday, saying Taiwan’s recycling rate of 52.51 percent (4.13 million metric tons recycled) in 2017 fell behind only Germany and Austria. He thanked people from all sectors of Taiwan society for their hard work.
President Hilda C. Heine of the Marshall Islands arrived July 26 in Taiwan on a seven-day state visit aimed at expanding exchanges and deepening friendship between the Indo-Pacific nations.
Monthly nongovernmental organization seminars will be staged at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Taipei City as part of government efforts to deepen cooperation with local NGOs and help the groups expand their international presence, the MOFA announced July 26.
China’s campaign of coercion against international airlines designating Taiwan as a country on their websites was strongly condemned July 25 by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The government is fully committed to maintaining the cross-strait status quo for the benefit of the people of both sides and throughout the region, according to Foreign Minister Jaushieh Joseph Wu July 23.
China’s politically motivated pressure on the East Asian Olympic Committee to cancel the 2019 East Asian Youth Games in central Taiwan’s Taichung City was condemned in the strongest possible terms July 24 by the Office of the President.
The Executive Yuan roundly condemns China for political interference that has resulted in the revocation of Taiwan’s right to host the first East Asian Youth Games, scheduled for 2019.
Taiwan has made progress in the representation of women in politics as shown by the 2016 election of President Tsai Ing-wen, the country’s first female head of state, according to an international panel that also gave recommendations for further advancing gender equality.
Taiwan will host the 4th World Conference of Women’s Shelters in 2019 in southern Kaohsiung City, co-organizer New Taipei City-based Garden of Hope Foundation (GOH), a nongovernmental organization that helps abused women, announced July 18.
Taiwan will never relinquish its sovereignty in exchange for an illusory peace, nor will its 23 million people ever allow their destiny to be decided by the other side of the strait, according to Mainland Affairs Council Minister Chen Ming-tong July 18.
