Taipei, July 7 (CNA) An official from the Indonesia Financial Services Authority (OJK), which regulates and supervises the country's financial services in banking, capital markets and the non-bank financial industry sectors, encouraged Indonesian migrant workers in Taiwan to save for their futures.

Local nonprofit organizations are changing lives in Myanmar. In 2018, life improved dramatically for Myanmar farmer Saw Lar Htoo when he received a new leg from Taipei City-based Eden Social Welfare Foundation (ESWF) and The Leprosy Mission Myanmar (TLMM). The 50-year-old, who had stepped on a landmine, was among the first beneficiaries of a program between the nongovernmental organizations (NGO) aimed at providing prosthetics to 300 people in the Southeast Asian nation by 2020.

In order to encourage volunteers of domestic universities and civil groups to go to Southeast Asia to help overseas compatriot schools develop, the Overseas Community Affairs Council (OCAC) is assisting 259 young people travel to the Philippines, Malaysia, Myanmar and Thailand to do voluntary work at overseas compatriot schools this year.

A group of Malaysian education officials was in Taipei on Monday on an exchange program organized by the Ministry of Education (MOE) aimed at promoting greater cooperation on Chinese language instruction and expose them to language classes.

The Council of Agriculture (COA) and the Asian Productivity Organization (APO) are jointly organizing the “Workshop on Innovations in Agribusiness for Young Entrepreneurs” in Taiwan from the1st through 5th of July.

In order to raise the visibility and popularity of Taiwanese agricultural and food products in Muslim markets, the Council of Agriculture (COA) commissioned the Commerce Development Research Institute (CDRI) to implement the “project for surveying commercial opportunities and promoting Taiwanese agricultural and aquatic products (including processed products) in Muslim markets.”

A Taiwan-EU workshop on gender mainstreaming got underway June 24 in Taipei City, underscoring the commitment of both sides to advancing awareness of the important public policy concept.

Thirty-three-year-old Usman Iqbal from Pakistan is one of the youngest professors at Taipei Medical University (TMU). He arrived in Taiwan from Pakistan to attend a master's program at TMU in 2010 and continued with a doctoral program in health informatics in 2012.

It is now easier for tourists and travel agents to get the latest information about one of the most exciting, up and coming travel destinations, with the official opening of New Zealand’s first Taiwan Tourism Information Centre.