The 4th World Congress of Taiwan Studies (WCTS) will be held June 27-29 (Pacific Daylight Time, PDT), 2022 at the University of Washington, Seattle, USA. The theme this year is “Taiwan in the Making,” looking at Taiwan from a global perspective and connecting with the world through Taiwan Studies.
After a successful two-week tour of Taiwan’s capital city dishing out free Filipino food, the Philippines will continue to promote its food products at the Food Taipei international food show this week, attracting the attention of importers.
The New Zealand Commerce and Industry Office (NZCIO) marked Matariki, or Maori New Year, in Taipei Friday with a celebration featuring prayer sessions and Indigenous dancers from Taiwan and New Zealand.
Taipei is ranked the 10th most livable city in the annual quality of life survey published by U.K.-based fashion magazine Monocle in its July/August issue.
The 2022 Tang Prize winners for sinology and rule of law were announced June 20 and 21, respectively, by Taipei City-based Tang Prize Foundation.
The Taipei Cultural Center in New York works with the International Society for the Performing Arts (ISPA) for the first time to launch the “2023-2025 Taiwan Fellowship Program,” which is calling for two performing arts administrators from Taiwan to participate. Submissions will be accepted from now until July 15.
In response to the damage caused by Super Typhoon Rai, locally known as Odette, that hit the central-southern Philippines, specifically the Visayas and Mindanao Islands in December 2021, the International Cooperation and Development Fund (TaiwanICDF) has worked with Catholic Relief Services (CRS), an United States-based international non-governmental organization, to implement the Southern Leyte Typhoon Rai Livelihoods Early Recovery Support project in the Philippines.
The Taiwan Alumni Association of Sabah has been actively promoting educational exchanges between Taiwan and Malaysia for a long time and puts great effort into fostering skilled professionals in Sabah. An education cooperation project has been organized by the Taiwan Alumni Association of Sabah to promote educational cooperation between Taiwan and Malaysia by establishing a platform for bilateral educational exchanges.
The 71st Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting is scheduled from 26 June to 1 July 2022 in Lindau, Germany. A researcher from Academia Sinica is among the 611 young scientists from 91 countries invited to meet with about 30 Nobel Laureates. This year’s Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting is dedicated to chemistry and will be the first on-site meeting since 2019 due to the COVID-19 epidemic.
“WITHIN Taiwan’s Selected VR Works (WITHIN臺灣VR作品選集),” a touring exhibition co-organized by the Cultural Division of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Thailand, Taiwan’s Digital Art Foundation and Chulalongkorn University in Thailand, will showcase Taiwanese VR works in Bangkok, Thailand, from June 15 through July 17.
