On Nov. 23, the Taiwan-Thailand Book Publishing & Independent Bookstore Symposium was held in Bangkok, Thailand. As the Grant for the Publication of Taiwanese Works in Translation (GPT) Seminar 2021 received positive feedback from the Thailand publication industry, this year, the Cultural Division of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Thailand organized a conference to keep the momentum going. Apart from the Publishers and Booksellers Association of Thailand (PUBAT) and the Creative Econ

Malaysian actress Ayda Jebat was invited to visit Taiwan for a promotional video to endorse Muslim-friendly tourism, spotlighting government policy to attract more travelers from the Southeast Asian country in the post-pandemic era, according to the Tourism Bureau Dec. 9.

The government is sparing no effort in making policy adjustments to forge closer economic and trade partnerships with Australia and New Zealand, according to National Development Council Minister Kung Ming-hsin.

A farmer from Northern India, Kapil Sharma, planted Taiwanese guava by chance, and got a life-changing harvest. Sharma hopes to visit Taiwan one day to see for himself the land that has changed his life forever.

The 2023 edition of the Taiwan International Festival of Arts (TIFA) will kick off in Taipei next February, featuring more international productions than in the previous two years following the reopening of Taiwan’s border, according to the event's organizer, National Theater and Concert Hall (NTCH).

The Youth Department of New Taipei City Government, in order to help start-ups explore southbound opportunities, held the "New Taipei City Startup Southbound Online Forum" with Rainmaking Innovation Taiwan at 2 p.m. on November 2, invited representatives from the Singapore Action Community for Entrepreneurship (ACE), IETO, Indonesia Prima and RSI Ventures to share southbound trends, future development and digital technology transformation, focusing on smart cities, biomedical, smart transportati

The 2022 Taiwan Culture and Tourism Promotion Fair was staged Nov. 19-20 in Hanoi, Vietnam to mark the 30th anniversary of the establishment of representative offices in both countries, according to the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Vietnam.

On October 22, 2022, the Education Division at the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Vietnam held an online Taiwan Higher Education Fair for the third year. Sixty universities in Taiwan, a historically high number, took part, giving students in Vietnam an excellent opportunity to find, and find out more about, branches of learning and courses that they were attracted to.

At the invitation of the George Town Literary Festival (CTLF), poet Sen Kim Soon (辛金順) will share his creative process of writing poetry and prose, as well as start a dialogue with Southeast Asian writers on how language breaks barriers. He is also invited to speak at the Department of Chinese Studies at the University of Malaya (UM) on Dec. 3.

ITRI, Taiwan’s largest and one of the world’s leading high-tech applied research institutions was recognized at the R&D 100 Awards Gala held in San Diego on November 17 for its three winning technologies this year. The award winners are: High Resolution Full-Color Micro LED Display for AR Glasses in the IT/electrical category; Point-of-Care AI-DR in the software/services category; and, in collaboration with Celanese® Micromax™ (former DuPont MCM), GreenTape™ 9KC LTCC and Ag Metallization for mmW