The annual Philippine Independence Day celebration for Filipino migrant workers in Taiwan will return for the first time in three years on Sunday, with up to 3,000 people expected to attend, after a two-year hiatus because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Manila Economic and Cultural Office (MECO) said Thursday.
The clock is ticking! With the strong support of the Taichung City Government and the Information Bureau, the Taichung Film Development Foundation is hosting the short film competition of the 8th Taichung International Animation Festival (TIAF), with a total prize pool of up to NTD 1.2 million. Since the opening of the application in April this year, it has obtained more than 1000 excellent pieces of work. The application will be closed on June 30.
People who live in Chiayi City with different cultural backgrounds make the city more diverse. “A Trip of Culture in Chiayi City” today explores the life of foreigners in Chiayi City and displays the beauty of their cultures.
Taipei’s annual Eid al-Fitr celebrations returned to Da’an Forest Park after a two-year hiatus Sunday, with around 10,000 festivalgoers enjoying an array of attractions including a Halal bazaar, outdoor cinema, and interactive cultural exchange booths.
A production that features two performances directed by Indonesian and Taiwanese choreographers by adopting each other's dancers will be showcased in Taipei this Friday to Sunday.
Over 570,000 immigrants currently live in Taiwan, bringing their own languages, culture, and cuisine to their new country. Many of them come from Southeast Asia. The Education Ministry is promoting a new children’s book project to preserve these foreign languages in Taiwan, so that the younger generations are still connected to their heritage.
The Indonesian representative office in Taiwan organized a free handicraft lesson on Sunday to teach Indonesian migrant workers how to make homemade bottle lamps so that they could acquire entrepreneurship skills in preparation for their return home.
The land affairs business closely relates to people’s daily life. Services such as land purchase and sale, actual price registration, land identification, etc., all connect to people’s rights and interests. However, as the legislation is relatively challenging to navigate when immigrant residents have questions about land and housing, they hardly express their problems clearly due to language barriers.
Taiwan on Wednesday launched a new 1990 hotline to offer consultation services in seven languages to foreign nationals living in the country, according to the Ministry of the Interior (MOI).
As the “International Mother Language Day” is on February 21, the Ministry of the Interior National Immigration Agency (NIA) launched the Podcast program “Talks on Cultures & Immigrants’ journeys”. The program was produced and broadcasted by the second generation of immigrants, inviting immigrant’s children to share their experiences while residing in Taiwan, as well as to encourage them to use their native languages more often.
