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Exhibition on Taiwan, Thailand traditional tattoo cultures opens in BangkokPhotos - New Southbound Policy
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Exhibition on Taiwan, Thailand traditional tattoo cultures opens in Bangkok

A joint exhibition on traditional tattoo practices in Taiwan and Thailand opened July 15 at the Museum Siam in Bangkok, underscoring government efforts to strengthen cultural exchanges with the New Southbound Policy target country.

Overseas Students from Southbound Policy Targeted Countries Exploited to Work? Ministry of Education: Severe Measures Taken to Protect Students’ RightsPhotos - New Southbound Policy
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Overseas Students from Southbound Policy Targeted Countries Exploited to Work? Ministry of Education: Severe Measures Taken to Protect Students’ Rights

Recently, some overseas students, who are not in New Southbound Industry-Academia Collaboration Programs (IACP), at the University of Kang Ning, Yu Da University of Science and Technology and Chienkuo Technology University were found to be exploited in their labor rights.

Foreign worker employer transfer system to be in five languagesPhotos - New Southbound Policy
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Foreign worker employer transfer system to be in five languages

Taipei, July 15 (CNA) A system providing information to migrant workers on applications for changing employers or finding new jobs will now be available in five languages, the Ministry of Labor said Monday.

NTM Exhibits Taiwan’s Indigenous Tattooing Culture in ThailandPhotos - New Southbound Policy
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NTM Exhibits Taiwan’s Indigenous Tattooing Culture in Thailand

National Taiwan Museum (NTM) co-organized with Museum Siam in Thailand to exhibit “Tattoo COLOR˙Tattoo HONOR”, featuring the two tattooing systems of the Atayal and the Paiwan “Face and Body” as its main theme.

Taiwan's bubble milk tea makes splash in PhilippinesPhotos - New Southbound Policy
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Taiwan's bubble milk tea makes splash in Philippines

Manila, July 6 (CNA) Chatime, a Taiwanese bubble tea franchise, made a splash in the Philippines this week when it opened its 100th store in Davao, the most populous city in the country outside Metro Manila.

Indonesian official encourages workers to save for their futurePhotos - New Southbound Policy
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Indonesian official encourages workers to save for their future

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.

Forward StepsPhotos - New Southbound Policy
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Forward Steps

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.

OCAC assists Taiwanese youth do voluntary service at overseas compatriot schools in Southeast AsiaPhotos - New Southbound Policy
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OCAC assists Taiwanese youth do voluntary service at overseas compatriot schools in Southeast Asia

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.

Malaysian officials in Taiwan to boost Chinese language exchangesPhotos - New Southbound Policy
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Malaysian officials in Taiwan to boost Chinese language exchanges

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 and the Asian Productivity Organization hold the “Workshop on Innovations in Agribusiness for Young Entrepreneurs,” in Taiwan, bringing together representatives from the Asia-Pacific region to explore development opportunities for young agribusiness entrepreneursPhotos - New Southbound Policy
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The Council of Agriculture and the Asian Productivity Organization hold the “Workshop on Innovations in Agribusiness for Young Entrepreneurs,” in Taiwan, bringing together representatives from the Asia-Pacific region to explore development opportunities for young agribusiness entrepreneurs

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.