The Ocean Affairs Council (OAC) and the American Institute in Taiwan Kaohsiung Branch Office (AIT/K) co-hosted the Ocean Challenge 2022 virtual event on June 1 and 2. This youth-oriented event expanded into an international competition for the first time this year, appealing to quite a number of school teams in the Indo-Pacific region, such as Vietnam, Indonesia, and Malaysia to submit their action proposals.
The Australian Office in Taipei and Taiwan’s National Culture and Arts Foundation (NCAF) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to enhance exchanges in the fields of art and culture.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has designated 2022 the year of “Health for Peace, Peace for Health”. To echo this theme, aside from co-hosting a forum on Increasing Accessibility to Health Care in Emergency Contexts with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), the TaiwanICDF has also produced a video titled “One with the world, Taiwan responds!”.
Taiwan has been selected to host the 2025 WorldSkills Asia competition, an international tournament promoting vocational skills education.
The Taiwan-Asia Exchange Foundation (TAEF) said Tuesday that it would begin writing semiannual policy papers on Taiwan-India relations in collaboration with the New Dehli-based Observer Research Foundation (ORF), under a wide-ranging Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed Monday.
An award-winning documentary that retraces the footsteps of a man from New Zealand who searched for his missing son in Taiwan officially opened in theaters across Taiwan on Friday.
Authorized by the Asia Pride Games Alliance, the Asia Pride Games 2022 was held in Taipei for the first time. After five days of exciting competition, the event came to a perfect end in Taipei on May 3.
The 50th National Book Fair and the 20th Bangkok International Book Fair were held at the Bang Sue Grand Station from Mar. 26 to Apr. 6. As part of the book fair, the Cultural Division of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in Thailand hosted an event titled “Taiwan-Thailand Picture Book Exchange 2022: TTpicbook 2022.”
When news of the illness that would later become known as COVID-19 made the rounds in Taiwan in early 2020, Lee Ping-ing (李秉穎), a pediatrician at National Taiwan University Hospital, was curious how the public would respond. “The reaction was obvious and surprisingly quick. I saw a third of metro riders in Taipei City immediately start wearing masks to protect against the then mysterious disease,” he said.
A growing number of companies in Taiwan are using circular economy design for sustainable environmental, social and governance solutions.
