Four tailor-made television shows promoting Taiwan and co-produced by the Taiwan government and TV stations in four Asian countries will be aired in their respective countries next month with the aim to enhance people-to-people ties, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) said Tuesday.
A total of 730 cyclists from 42 countries are expected to compete in the 2019 Taiwan KOM (King of the Mountains) Challenge set for Oct. 25, organizers said Tuesday.
The Ministry of Education in Taiwan is committed to enriching the professional training for the hardworking language teachers and lecturers teaching Chinese in Australia and New Zealand. A case in point is the launch of the 2020 Professional Development Program in Taiwan for Chinese Language Teachers of Australia & New Zealand.
Taiwan on Sunday clinched the gold medal in a neck-to-neck championship game at the 2019 Asian Baseball Championship, after beating Japan 5-4 at the tournament held in Taichung. This marks the first No.1 finish for the national squad, competing under the name Chinese Taipei, in the tournament since 2001.
The Taipei City Government held the Taipei Muslim-Friendly Sites and Hotels Conference on Oct. 21, in which six new sightseeing spots including the National Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial Hall received a Muslim-friendly environment certification from the Taiwan-based Chinese Muslim Association.
The Tourism Bureau hosted a workshop in the Vietnamese city of Da Nang Sunday to promote its initiative called "Taiwan Quality Tour" for travel operators that provide Vietnamese visitors with tourism products and services in Taiwan.
The third annual World Music Festival kicked off at Taipei’s Dajia Riverside Park on Friday. The three-day event is meant to encourage cultural exchange in Taiwan.
Six hotels in Taiwan won distinctions at the World Luxury Hotel Awards (WLHA) this year, with the Yui-mom Group's Silks Club in Kaohsiung awarded both the Luxury Art Hotel -- Global Winner -- and the Luxury All-Suite Hotel -- Continent Winner: Asia. This year, the six hotels won a total of seven awards.
The 26th Art Taipei fair will be held at the Taipei World Trade Center from Oct. 18 through 21, with the opening ceremony scheduled for the afternoon of Oct. 17. This year, the exhibition has invited 141 top galleries from 12 different countries to exhibit their works in Taiwan and hold art lectures that resonate with the fair theme of "Reproduction of Light."
Competitors in the Global Market: Southeast Asian Ceramics
Sometime between late 15th century and early 16th centuries, a ship carrying over 240 thousand ceramic pieces was likely caught in a storm, and drifted around helplessly near the coast of Hoi An, an important trading port in central Vietnam.
