Up to 26 Taiwanese audiovisual productions have made their way to greater heights by being nominated for 33 categories in Singapore's Asian Academy Creative Awards, one of the most prestigious accolades for creative excellence in the Asia-Pacific region. The winners will be announced in an awards ceremony held on Dec. 5 in Singapore's Victoria Theater.

The Global Environmental Education Partnership Asia-Pacific Regional Center opened Dec. 3 in the central city of Taichung, highlighting the commitment of Taiwan and the U.S. to ensuring a healthy and sustainable environment.

Taiwan has been rated as the only Asian country with open civic space, in a global report that rates and tracks respect for fundamental freedoms in 196 countries worldwide, according to the results released Wednesday in Bangkok.

＂Sports Tourism＂ has long been considered the world’s fastest-growing market in the tourism industry. Through active participation in sports, or engaging in leisure or watching sport activities, or visiting famous attractions, among others, the fashionable field is developed to create combination results of sport and tourism, which brings economic benefits of sport-related tourism that major cities and countries are prompting and organizing sporting events to attract the global tourist crowds.

To expand Chinese language education collaborations between Taiwan and Malaysia, and to enhance Malaysian officials’ understanding of Taiwan’s Chinese language education and vocational education, the Ministry of Education invited 19 Malaysian officials from the state of Kedah to participate in a 10-day intensive Chinese language program.

The 2019 Taiwan International Student Design Competition, now in its 12th year, is the largest-scale international student design contest in the world. It's organized by the Ministry of Education and sponsored by iSee Taiwan Foundation, the Sayling Wen Cultural & Educational Foundation, and the Industrial Technology Research Institute.

In order to implement the President's 'New Southbound Policy', the Sport Administration gives grants to the National Pingtung University of Science and Technology holding "2019 NPUST 'MONKEY CUP(阿猴盃)' New Southbound International University Futsal Invitational Tournament", specially inviting the football teams of Malaysian University of Sabah (Malaysia), Srinakharinwirot University (Thailand), HCM City National University (Vietnam) to rub shoulders with the Taiwanese Universities.

Seventeen-year-old Ting Hua-tien (丁華恬) has become the first Taiwanese gymnast to have a gymnastics move named after her, the Chinese Taipei Gymnastics Association said Monday.