Winners of the Taiwan International Student Design Competition will be honored at special presentation ceremony organized by the Ministry of Education Dec. 6 in Taipei City.

The 2019 Global Youth Trends Forum was officially launched today (Nov. 9) at Hilton Taipei Sinban Hotel. This year, we have 350 youth delegates from 26 countries, both at record-high, spanning across five continents participating in this event. Owing to this Forum, Taiwanese youth can communicate and exchange with foreign youth without going abroad. At the opening ceremony, Vice President Chen Chien-jen expected that the youth should exert their influence to jointly make this world to a better p

The non-governmental environmental organization Greenpeace called on major retailers in Taiwan to step up their efforts to eliminate plastic packaging, on Singles' Day Monday, the largest shopping campaign in the Chinese-speaking world.

The Ministry of Culture (MOC) and its new affiliated administrative institution, the Taiwan Creative Content Agency (TAICCA), will launch two expansive plans from next year, each of which will be allocated NT$10 billion (US$329.32 million), the culture minister said Friday.

Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Thailand signed a memorandum of understanding for a donation of US$100,000 with Bangkok-based nongovernmental organization The Border Consortium Oct. 30 in the country’s Mae Sot district, reaffirming Taiwan’s longstanding commitment to aiding displaced people in the Myanmar border region.

The Indonesian representative office in Taipei is showcasing the country's cultural diversity at the four-day Taipei International Travel Fair that kicked off Friday, in an effort to attract Taiwanese tourists.

Taipei City placed seventh out of 102 metropolises in the first-ever International Institute for Management Development Smart City Index released Oct. 3 by Switzerland-based IMD World Competitiveness Center.

Two indigenous women from Australia are in Taiwan for a weeklong visit to raise awareness of the preservation of indigenous languages as part of the Australian government's celebration of the 2019 International Year of Indigenous Languages.

Taiwan's Tourism Bureau is promoting mountain tourism at the 4-day Taipei International Travel Fair that began Friday.
The bureau is focusing on five north-south mountain ranges -- the Central Mountain, Xueshan, Yushan, Alishan and the Coastal Mountain ranges -- in its pavilion at the fair, said bureau Deputy Director-General Chang Shi-chung.