India Taipei Association Director General Mr. Gourangalal Das and Deputy Director General Mr. Dhananjay Singh Yadav visited Tainan Mayor Huang Wei-che on Jan. 5. Department of Information and International Relations Director-general Su En-en was also present. The parties talked about potential interaction opportunities between Tainan and India.
The Chiayi County Government formed a group of 35 people with the Tourism Bureau, MOTC and 22 Taiwanese companies to participate in the International Travel Exhibition (ITE HCMC) in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, and fully promote Taiwan's most beautiful mountains, in order to deploy business opportunities of tourism after the opening of the border in advance. Vietnamese travelers are cordially encouraged to relive the sea and plain scenery of Taiwan.
Taiwan’s landmark Taipei 101 will ring in the new year with 16,000 fireworks and a light show to welcome 2023 with an impressive display of color, light and sound.
The Tainan City Government launched the Friendship Box Reading Program to facilitate interactions with other cities and promote the beauty of Tainan. In the past four years, the program has hosted over 170 events with participating cities from Asia, Europe, the Americas, and Oceania. The objective is to promote more interactions between Tainan and the world as the city prepares to commemorate its 400th anniversary.
Tainan City and the City of Gold Coast officially became sister cities in October 1982. To celebrate the 40 years of cherished relationship, Tainan City Mayor Huang Wei-che and City of Gold Coast Mayor Tom Tate each recorded videos to convey their best wishes to the other city. Mayor Huang’s video was featured on Mayor Tate’s Facebook page.
On 10/28(Fri), New Taipei City went to Singapore to participate in the 2022 ICT Award Ceremony held by ASOCIO. In terms of digital governance, New Taipei City was recognized by the ASOCIO ICT Award, which is known as the Asian Cup in the information and communications industry for its “Distant Digital Care Center.” Winning the award of Digital Government Award shows that New Taipei City’s development of innovative technology applications in smart cities is prestigious in the world.
New Taipei City went to the Ohio Statehouse yesterday (27) to participate in the “Global Summit 2022” global summit and awards ceremony held by the Intelligent Community Forum (ICF), standing out from the seven smart cities in the final, surpassing Canada, Australia and other large international cities, and winning the first prize of the smart city around the world, allowing the flag of the Republic of China to leap onto the international stage.
“Tranquil Lotus Field (荷田雅韻),” a lotus light art installation in Hsinchu, has been recognized by the New York Design Awards and Sydney Design Awards, winning the silver award in the category of Pop-Ups, Display, Exhibit & Set Design in both competitions.
The Secretariat of New Taipei City Government cohosted the 2022 New Taipei City Urban Diplomacy Forum with Tamkang University’s Department of Diplomacy and International Relations today (Sep. 29). This forum featured 6 speakers including Deputy Representative Takashi Hattori of Japan–Taiwan Exchange Association, Deputy Representative Philip Ong of Singapore Trade Office in Taipei, Senior Policy Affairs Officer Lisa Laeven of Netherlands Office Taipei, Professor Hsi-Hsun Tsai of the Graduate Inst
