Taiwan is working with like-minded partners to safegaurd peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific while striving to share its successful COVID-19 response via meaningful participation in international organizations, Foreign Minister Jaushieh Joseph Wu said Dec. 7.
On December 6, the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) announced the test results of individuals who came into contact with Case #688, who is an Indonesian migrant worker.
Taiwan is committed to working with like-minded partners such as Australia in defense of democratic values to ensure peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific, Foreign Minister Jaushieh Joseph Wu said Nov. 30.
Labor Minister Hsu Ming-chun says that Taiwan is looking for new sources of migrant workers. That’s as Indonesia moves to introduce a policy that would make it more expensive to bring in its nationals as migrant workers.
Citizens of the Republic of China (Taiwan) will be able to apply for passports with the new cover design starting Jan. 11, 2021, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Asia Pacific Forum is the winner of this year’s Asia Democracy and Human Rights Award as well as a grant of US$100,000 toward projects protecting the region’s most vulnerable people, according to organizer Taiwan Foundation for Democracy Nov. 30.
The New Southbound Policy—Indian Students as Market Navigators seminar was held Nov. 25 in Taipei City as part of government efforts to expand people-to-people exchanges with NSP target country India, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
At the Cabinet’s weekly meeting Thursday, Premier Su Tseng-chang received a Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) briefing on Taiwan’s important role in the field of black hole research. He thanked the scientists and engineers who garnered international recognition for Taiwan for contributions to the advancement of astronomy. The premier described their impressive efforts as “science diplomacy,” while invoking the famous moon speech delivered by former U.S. President John F. Kennedy.
On November 25, the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) announced that the Fall-Winter COVID-19 Prevention Program would be implemented starting from December 1, and under this program, travelers shall present a certificate of a negative COVID-19 RT-PCR test result issued within three days prior to boarding the flight to Taiwan.
Taiwan has recently initiated two new measures to reinforce the management of medical masks. Since July 7th, 2020, the country began to implement border random inspection of medical masks. From September 24th, 2020, domestically manufactured medical masks are required to be marked with government-issued debossed stamps. These measures aim to control the quality of imported medical masks and differentiate domestic medical masks from those imported.
