To provide better friendly services and care for migrant workers of different nationalities in Pingtung County, the staff of the Labor and Youth Development Department, Pingtung County Government organized four promotional activities regarding occupational safety, gender equality, and sexual harassment at work for migrant workers from Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam, and Thailand.
On October 24, Mayor Ko Wen-je attended the press conference at the Mayor’s Residence Art Salon announcing the establishment of Taipei Migrant Worker School.
According to the “4wayvoice”, with the start of literacy classes in Chinese for new residents at Zhongzheng Elementary School (中正國小), Hsinchu County, National Immigration Agency (Hsinchu City Service Station) entered the campus to promote the importance of African Swine Fever (ASF) prevention in multiple languages. The details of quintuple stimulus vouchers and extra-bonus vouchers are introduced as well, encouraging the new residents to collect the vouchers to boost Taiwan’s economy.
Tainan is a major tourism city. Although its tourism industry was impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, the city is still actively training tourism professionals. Recently, Tainan’s Tourism Bureau organized the minority language tour guide training course. Mayor Huang Wei-che attended the graduation ceremony on Sep. 25 and encouraged the 22 newly minted tour guides to leverage their language abilities and professional skills and share Tainan’s charm with international visitors.
Batik, a traditional Indonesian resist-dyeing technique that uses wax to create patterns on fabric, was listed as the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity of UNESCO in 2009. To this day, batik is still worn by Indonesians to mark special moments in life such as births, weddings, and funerals.
There has been an increase of cases involving legal migrant workers working additional jobs, or even involved in online marketing of counterfeits, in the hopes of boosting their income.
“2021 Taipei Fashion Week SS22” will kick off on Oct. 3, using Chunghwa Telecom’s 5G network services to connect fashion shows and art performances, and perform real-time shows in different places to provide a new integrated experience across various fields.
The National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts, also known as Weiwuying, organized an “Art Consultation Day” on Sunday where artists shared intimate moments with their audience through poetry, dance or drawing.
“Quintuple stimulus vouchers” are coming! Besides the nationals, new immigrants with valid ARCs and APRC holders can get “Quintuple stimulus vouchers”.
In Taiwan, there are about 700,000 migrant workers. You can often see that the streets and parks are often frequented by foreign caretakers and their elders across Taipei City. In order to let our people to better understand the problems of care confronting employer families and the foreign caretakers, Taipei City Foreign and Disabled Labor Office (FDLO) will host the “My Migrant Workers” online exhibition from September 11 to October 15, 2021.
