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.
A total of 40 productions are set to screen at the upcoming 2021 Taiwan Ocean Culture Film Festival, according to the Bureau of Audiovisual and Music Industry Development under the Ministry of Culture Aug. 19.
The 【Multiple Reading Year 2021- New Resident Culture Series- Indonesia】 lecture, organized by The Public Library of Miaoli County, will be held at the lecture center on the library’s 4th floor at 9A.M. on Friday, August 27, 2021. The lecturer, Indonesian teacher Tsai-ni Lin, will present the “Parent-Child Tea Party Story Time of Indonesia.”
To simplify the process, the Immigration Agency has promoted online applications for residence permits for formal academic degree students, and will no longer accept applying on paper at NIA service centers.
