Organized by the National Taiwan Craft Research and Development Institute with the cooperation of Chaîne de Papier, France, the 2021/22 Biennial International Paper Fibre Art is being jointly exhibited at the NTCRI’s Craft Hall and Craft Design Hall. Jan Fairbairn Edwards from France and Taiwanese fiber artist Yang Wei-lin (楊偉林) have been invited to serve as the exhibition’s curators under the proposed theme “Transfiguration.”
Taiwan has been ranked third in Asia and No. 16 overall in the IMD 2021 World Talent Ranking, up by four places from last year and the country’s best performance in ten years.
A successful bilateral exchange program was established by Taipei City-based Waley Art with NexUs Culture Nepal located in Kathmandu courtesy of wide-ranging support from the Ministry of Culture.
Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) has been ranked among the 10 most powerful women in the world by Forbes magazine, rising to No. 9 this year from 37th in 2020.
resident Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) has been included on the Financial Times’ Women of the Year list for 2021 published Thursday that also featured United States House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Hong Kong democracy activist Agnes Chow (周庭).
On Oct. 26, the CIP held the closing ceremony of the“2021 Austronesian Forum: Cultivation Program of Young Talents for International Affairs” (Taiwan Training Class) at the Taipei Garden Hotel. The ceremony, hosted by CIP Minister Icyang Parod, was attended by diplomatic representatives from Palau, Nauru, Tuvalu, Belize, Papua New Guinea, United States, and Hawaii.
An Indonesian Ph.D. student was awarded the grand prize and NT$20,000 (US$718) at a ceremony in Taipei on Sunday for winning a short video competition aimed at sharing information about Taiwan with Indonesian citizens.
Amid warnings of excessive authoritarian sway, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) has called for an end to Taiwan’s exclusion from the transnational crime control body Interpol, citing broad support from international lawmakers.
Taiwan has contributed US$1.5 million in funding to support Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) economic and technical cooperation initiatives, an APEC release said on Thursday.
Taiwan ranked sixth in the 2020 Government Defence Integrity Index released Nov. 16 by the U.K.-based Transparency International Defence and Security Programme, according to the Ministry of National Defense.
