A total 590 volunteers of Taiwan expatriate descent are undergoing training at Taipei City-based Chientan Youth Activity Center in readiness for English teaching assignments throughout remote parts of the country.
A total 590 volunteers of Taiwan expatriate descent are undergoing training at Taipei City-based Chientan Youth Activity Center in readiness for English teaching assignments throughout remote parts of the country.
Four Taiwan troupes are set to feature in the 2018 Festival Off d’Avignon running July 6-29 in France, spotlighting the vibrancy of the nation’s performing arts sector.
A memorandum of understanding on film archive development and preservation technology exchanges was concluded June 29 by Taiwan’s Public Television Service and France’s National Audiovisual Institute (INA).
Winning hearts and minds in the northern highlands of Thailand is the goal of TaiwanICDF cooperative projects.
An exhibition documenting the success of Taiwan technical missions in advancing technology development in diplomatic allies El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua is set to open June 26 in Taipei City.
Taiwan Digital Asset Library, an online database comprising 3-D models of historic structures and insects, was launched June 22 by the Ministry of Culture, highlighting government efforts to support the development of creative industries across such fields as animation, comics, film and games.
Taiwan is 16th out of 63 countries and territories in the latest World Digital Competitiveness Ranking published June 19 by Switzerland-based International Institute for Management Development.
The 2018 Tang Prize winners in the Sinology and rule of law categories were announced June 20 and 21, respectively, with U.S. academic Stephen Owen and Japanese scholar Yoshinobu Shiba recognized for their Chinese historical and literary studies and Israeli philosopher Joseph Raz honored for his research on legal reasoning and morality.
Minister of Culture Cheng Li-chiun met with an international panel of cultural professionals in a week-long program this June to discuss promoting deeper understanding between Taiwan and Southeast Asia.
The 2018 Tang Prize winners in the sustainable development and biopharmaceutical science categories were announced June 18 and 19, respectively, with James E. Hansen and Veerabhadran Ramanathan sharing the former award for their revolutionary climate change research and Brian J. Druker, Tony Hunter and John Mendelsohn picking up the latter for breakthroughs in targeted cancer therapies.
