The New York Asian Film Festival (NYAFF)‘s 20th edition, running from August 6 to 22, will feature six Taiwanese films. This festival, with its largest film lineup to date, will screen over 60 films from Taiwan, China, Hong Kong, Japan, and Korea, both virtually and in-person, at Lincoln Center, America.
Taiwan’s Kuo Hsing-chun and Chen Wen-huei won gold and bronze in the women’s 59kg and 64kg weightlifting, respectively, at the Tokyo Games July 27, bringing the country’s medal tally to six and rank by total to equal 12th with Switzerland.
Due to the pandemic and global digitalization, TTA’s global digital transformation strategy has its eyes set on key advanced industries in Europe, US, and Asia markets. It’s recent participation in the world’s biggest mobile industry and tech exhibition – MWC in Spain and Asia’s flagship tech event – Asia Tech in Singapore has brought the highest number of potential business partnerships with corporates from around the world.
Taiwan continued its strong run at the Tokyo Olympics with silver in the men’s archery team and bronze in the mixed doubles table tennis July 26, bringing the country’s medal tally to four and rank by total to equal 11th with Brazil.
To celebrate its 30th anniversary, the Taipei Cultural Center (TCC) in New York will launch a series of virtual events, including an online piano concert, Taiwanese cinema features, and invite Taiwanese artists as well as American art institutions that have worked with TCC in New York, to review the course of cooperation over the past 30 years.
Team Taiwan won four gold medals to finish first along with China at the 32nd International Biology Olympiad hosted by Portugal, according to the Ministry of Education July 25.
Taiwan opened its Tokyo Olympics campaign in fine fashion with silver and bronze medals in the men’s 60-kilogram judo and women’s 57-kilogram taekwondo July 24 and 25, respectively.
The 4th Taiwan Film Festival Berlin (柏林台灣影展) organized by the Impression Taiwan (映像台灣), and sponsored by the Ministry Culture and Taipei Representative Office in the Federal Republic of Germany, will select 16 pieces of work for screening from August 20 to 29 this year.
To encourage Taiwan’s ICT industry to participate in the Precision Health industry's cross-disciplinary collaborations and international partnerships, on the noon of July 22, the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) has invited representatives with cross-disciplinary collaborative experiences from various industries, including manufacturing, government, universities, institutes, and medical professions,
The Ministry of Culture held an online press conference for the upcoming “2021 National Language Development Conference (國家語言發展會議)” on July 21, inviting the Ministry of Education, the Hakka Affairs Council, and the Council of Indigenous Peoples. The MOC hoped to discuss issues related to national language development through public participation to come up with measures that will help revitalize endangered national languages.
