The “2021 Fun Sports in Taiwan Exchange and Sharing Program” was held by the Sports Administration, Ministry of Education on October 12th in Taichung. Held both physically and online, it displayed the diverse faces of Taiwan-brand sports events.
The “2021 Fun Sports in Taiwan Exchange and Sharing Program” was held by the Sports Administration, Ministry of Education on October 12th in Taichung. Held both physically and online, it displayed the diverse faces of Taiwan-brand sports events.
Over a third of last year’s 20,000 takers of the Test of Chinese as a Foreign Language were from Vietnam. That number came from an online study camp for Mandarin teachers organized by the Taiwanese representative office in Vietnam.
In line with the Executive Yuan’s “Salute to the Seas (向海致敬)” policy, the National Center for Traditional Arts (NCFTA) will launch the 19th edition of the Asian-Pacific Traditional Arts Festival at the Yilan Park of NCFTA from Nov. 20 to 26 and Nov. 26 to 28.
Five Taiwan-produced films are set to be screened Oct. 21-31 as part of the 2021 London East Asia Film Festival, according to the Ministry of Culture Oct. 19.
Taiwanese nonprofit organization One-Forty, which is devoted to migrant workers’ rights, won a Good Design Gold Award Wednesday for its education kit, which was praised for its contribution to facilitating networking among migrant workers as well as with Taiwanese.
The National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (NTMoFA) will be hosting the 8th Asian Art Biennial titled “Phantasmapolis (未至之城)” from Oct. 30 to March 6, in hopes of re-evaluating Asia’s past and present through sci-fi perspectives to re-examine topics about Asian cities, technologies, conflicts, gender and fantasies of the future.
In light of the pandemic, the 2021 Taiwan International Human Rights Film Festival (臺灣國際人權影展), organized by the National Human Rights Museum (NHRM), will be held both online and in physical venues from Oct. 15 to Nov. 30.
To establish international collaboration in arts and design and to cultivate young talents in the fields, the Ministry of Education (MOE) has carried out MOE Scholarship Program for Overseas Study in Arts and Design(SPOSAD) since 2005. Talented students, under MOE's sponsorship of tuition fees and living expenses, are sent for overseas study every year.
Two Taiwanese films－“Dorm (宿舍)” by director Su Yu-hsien (蘇育賢) and “The Lucky Woman (逃跑的人)” by director Tseng Wen-chen (曾文珍)－have been nominated for the “New Asian Currents (千波萬波)” of the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival (YIDFF).
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, border control measures have been implemented by countries around the world and people are facing unprecedented challenges to their livelihoods. In response to the crisis, the Youth Development Administration, Ministry of Education, is organizing the 2021 Global Youth Trends Forum on the theme of “Global Partnership—The Impact of COVID-19 on Global Youth.” The forum will open a new chapter for youth to get reconnected to the world in the COVID-19 era.
