To expand Taiwan’s presence across Southeast Asia, the Ministry of Culture (MOC) launched the Bahasa Indonesia version of its official website, which is already available in English, Japanese, Spanish, and French. In recent years, the MOC has been actively engaged in cultural exchanges with Southeast Asian countries under the New Southbound Policy.
Following the successful test run in March 2022, the inaugural edition of the Focasa Circus Festival (FOCASA, 馬戲藝術節) will be held officially at Tainan’s Shueijiaoshe Cultural Park from Feb. 22 to 28. Jointly organized by the Formosa Circus Art (FOCA) and the Cultural Affairs Bureau of the Tainan City Government, FOCASA will feature circus artists from Taiwan, France, Australia, Korea, Japan, Hong Kong, and Cambodia.
Southern Taiwan’s Kaohsiung City is a big winner in the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation’s 2022 Energy Smart Communities Initiative (ESCI) Best Practices Awards Program and was awarded gold in the Low Carbon Models Town category and silver in the Smart Transport category.
Taiwan and Thailand held the second edition of an environmental protection forum on soil and groundwater management Dec. 20 in Taipei City, spotlighting the two sides’ commitment to fostering collaboration on addressing and preventing pollution.
On December 14-15, 2022, the Council of Agriculture (COA) participated in the 17th General Assembly Meeting of the Asia-Pacific Association of Agricultural Research Institutes (APAARI) via video conference. The Meeting was attended by representatives from Australia, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Fiji, India, Iran, Japan, Korea, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, Nepal, Papua New Guinea, Taiwan, Sri Lanka, and Vietnam.
Visitors from all over the world are invited to visit Taiwan to experience a safe and healing journey filled with physical and mental relaxation as the global epidemic subsides.
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.
