The gold, silver and bronze medals as well as associated presentation materials for the upcoming 2017 Taipei Summer Universiade, the largest sporting event ever staged in Taiwan, were unveiled July 31 in Taipei City.
The gold, silver and bronze medals as well as associated presentation materials for the upcoming 2017 Taipei Summer Universiade, the largest sporting event ever staged in Taiwan, were unveiled July 31 in Taipei City.
On July 28th, the fourth leg of the V part of the relay, Chiayi County, was held. Although the relay route from the county government building to the Southern Branch of the National Palace Museum was only three kilometers long, but it was not an easy task. The museum only came into existence after a long and arduous process lasting 11 years, and then finally, officially opened in 2015. It is a national level museum, which is being positioned as an “Asian art and culture museum.”
Taoyuan has opened a new center providing services to new immigrants and migrant workers in the city, in an effort to improve the services available to them.
This year's biennial WBSC U-12 Baseball World Cup will kick off in Tainan on Friday, with 12 teams from home and abroad competing.
The relay reached Kaohsiung City on July 27. Taipei Universiade Organizing Committee specifically invited Taipei City Deputy Mayor Chia-Chi Teng to lead Zhi-Jian Zhao, who is the torchbearer representing Taipei City and have won a silver medal in the long jump at the 2007 Bangkok Universiade, as he passed the torch to Kaohsiung City’s torchbearer.
The 21st World Congress on Information Technology (WCIT) will be held in Taipei from September 10 through 13. The press conference announcing the major IT occasion took place on July 25 with Deputy Mayor Charles Lin presiding over the event.
Taipei 2017 Universiade will begin on August 19. The torch relay will now follow a LOVE shaped route as it links 22 counties and cities across Taiwan, promoting this major sporting event and spreading the Universiade spirit. The V part of the relay connects all these cities and counties as a heart shape, representing the Love & Peace spirit of the sacred flame. The torch relay reached Hengchun in Pingtung County on July 26. Taipei City’s torch relay team was led by Taipei Universiade Organizing
As the torch relay was held in Taitung on July 25, amidst the major event on the local event calendar, Taiwan International Balloon Festival. The county government arranged for the torch to be carried in a hot air balloon, which is a distinctive and innovation approach.
After more than six months of planning, Taichung City Government arranged for the torch handover to take place at the city’s new landmark, the National Taichung Theater which opened in September 2016 and designed by Japanese architect Toyo Ito.
The 2017 Asian Real Estate Society and Global Chinese Real Estate Congress Joint Annual Conference was ceremoniously launched on July 11 in Taichung. Mayor Lin Chia-lung and Dr. Robert J. Shiller, the winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics, were invited to deliver key-note speeches respectively.
