The 110th Annual Conference of the Association of Pacific Ports wrapped up Aug. 14 in southern Taiwan’s Port of Kaohsiung, spotlighting Taiwan’s soft power and highlighting the city as a regional hub in the Pacific, according to the Ministry of Transportation and Communications.
The 2024 Asian Physics Olympiad was held from June 3 to June 9 at Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR) Kampar campus in Perak, to encourage more young people to pursue their interests in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields. It drew a total of 208 student participants from 26 countries and regions across Asia and the Oceanic regions. Each national or regional team comprises up to eight student competitors. The teams compete in two five-hour sections: a theoretical exami
The 2024 Intelligent Ironman Creativity Contest wrapped up Aug. 10 at National Chi Nan University in the central county of Nantou as part of ongoing government efforts to expand global opportunities for Taiwan’s high school students and promote exchanges with their counterparts around the world.
Taipei has been named the best leisure destination in Asia again by U.S.-based magazine Global Traveler in its 12th Leisure Lifestyle Awards, the Tourism Administration said Aug. 7.
Supported by the Cultural Division of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Thailand, Taiwanese contemporary circus group Circus Gate (馬戲之門) was invited to showcase their work “After” at the Bangkok International Children’s Theatre Festival on Aug. 2, bringing a dazzling show to the local crowd.
The Ministry of Culture (MOC) held a media event on Aug. 5 to introduce the main theme of the 2024 Creative Expo Taiwan, which will be hosted in Tainan City. In addition, the curatorial team unveiled the exhibition zones across the region.
The 2024 Asia-Pacific Health Promotion and Non-Communicable Disease Prevention Workshop, jointly organized by the Health Promotion Administration, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Taiwan, the Asia-Pacific Academic Consortium for Public Health Collaborating Centres for Health Promotion (APACPH CCHP), the Taiwan Association for Global Health Initiative (TAGHI), and the Institute of Population Health Sciences, National Health Research Institutes, is held from August 6th to August 7th.
The 2024 Asian Art Biennial is set to open in November this year. The National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (NTMoFA) revealed the Biennial theme, as well as the first batch of participating artists and their works, in a press conference on Aug. 1.
The 2024 Taiwan Culinary Exhibition is set to start Aug. 2-5 at Taipei World Trade Center, according to the Ministry of Agriculture.
Taiwan-made films “Suffocating Love (愛的噩夢),” “Trouble Girl (小曉),” and “Snow in Midsummer (五月雪)” were selected for Uncaged Award for Best Feature Film Competition at this year’s New York Asian Film Festival (NYAFF). During the closing ceremony on July 28, it was unveiled that “Snow in Midsummer” had won the award.
