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.
The Taiwan Lantern Festival was named Friday as one of the events with the most spectacular night views in the world, during an international summit held in Nagasaki, Japan.
Music and festivity filled Taoyuan’s Nankan area as a Filipino worker basketball league, one of the first to open since the easing of COVID-19 restrictions in recent months, tipped off with 15 teams and hundreds of players and fans at the opening ceremony.
Organized by the prestigious American Institute of Architects, the 8th edition of the AIA International Region Design Awards 2021 announced this year’s winning works on Nov. 12, two of which were the product of the Taipei-based architecture and design firm XRANGE.
Team Taiwan won two golds, a silver and bronze at the Inline Speed Skating World Championships Nov. 6 to 13 in Ibague, Colombia, according to the Ministry of Education.
Taiwanese animated film “City of Lost Things(廢棄之城)” has won the Best Animated Feature Film, first prize in the category of Professional Jury Awards at the 38th Chicago International Children’s Film Festival (CICFF), marking the first time in 22 years that a Taiwanese animation has received a prize at the festival, after the Taiwanese animated film “Grandma and Her Ghosts (魔法阿媽)” won a prize at the film festival in 1999.
