As Children's day at the corner, NIA New Taipei City Service center held a parent-child family education course at Ren-ai elementary school in Luzhou district on March 5. The course attracted about 40 new immigrant students and their parents from Indonesia, Vietnam, Laos and other countries to participate the course.
The K-12 Education Administration of Ministry of Education announces to simplify the New immigrant’s academic degree certificate process. Since 2016, the K-12 Education Administration (Ministry of Education) has been constructing a database that contains elementary and middle schools in Southeast Asia. They hope to guarantee new immigrant’s education and employment rights.
New Taipei City Government has been promoting a project “New Immigration Next Generation project” since 2020. On the first stage, the government held this project in 10 elementary schools, including Sanzhi Elementary School, to develop club activity classes that matched second-generation immigrant student’s interest, language and culture.
New Taipei Municipal Ching Shui High School (CSSH) held an activity called “How to Teach Foreigners Speak English”on Feb. 7th. During the activity, Taiwanese students will have to teach foreign students that are from 16 countries Chinese. The countries include Japan, Korea, Indonesia, Vietnam, etc.
The Taiwan Lantern Festival was unveiled in DaPeng Bay of Donggang, Pingtung, on February 19 by a grand opening ceremony. Fourteen teams from Mie-Ken, Kochi-Ken, and Hokkaido of Japan, the Philippines, Vietnam, and Hakka people and aboriginal people of Taiwan participated in the street party and parade at 2 pm along GuangFu Road of Donggang.
A meeting between Interior Minister Hsu Kuo-yung and 13 second-generation migrant goodwill ambassadors took place Jan. 26 in Taipei City, underscoring the commitment of the government to building a more friendly and inclusive society for Taiwan’s new arrivals.
New Taipei City Library on Friday announced that its bookmobile will offer books and magazines in the languages of six Southeast Asian countries from that day.
On November 25, Labor Commissioner Chen Hsin-yu led a team from the Department of Labor (DOL) on a visit to 3 major night markets – Linjiang, Ningxia, and Raohe – in Taipei. The purpose of the trip is to remind vendors and businesses to exercise cautiousness when hiring foreign workers.
On November 22, Mayor Ko Wen-je attended the 2020 Water Lantern Festival near the Rainbow Bridge in Songshan District. He joined the representatives of Vietnam, Thailand, Philippines, Malaysia, and Indonesia at the Xikou Wharf to release the floating lanterns with kids of new immigrant descent.
Traditional cultural shows and skills training classes kicked off in Taipei on Sunday at two Indonesian migrant worker events that attracted hundreds of participants from across Taiwan.
