On February 14, the incoming director of New Zealand Commerce and Industry Office (NZCIO) Marl Pearson paid a courtesy call on International Affairs Commissioner Tom Chou at city hall. The officials exchanged opinions on topics ranging from traffic to culture to pandemic prevention.
Taiwan’s southeastern Taitung City and County feature in Booking.com’s top 10 most welcoming places on Earth lists for 2022.
Composed of 30 representatives to Taiwan from 22 countries, the Diplomatic Corps and Commercial Personnel arrived in Tainan on Dec. 13. They were accompanied by the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Tien Chung-kwang. This is the delegation’s second visit to Tainan in two years. Tainan City Mayor Huang Wei-che personally welcomed the group with Deputy Mayor Tai Chien.
Despite the global COVID-19 outbreak in 2021, the Department of Education (DOE) continues to promote cross-border bilingual teacher training programs and international student exchanges with the help of technology and remote learning. For its effort, the agency received the ANZCham Business Award at the ceremony at Shangri-la’s Far Eastern Plaza Hotel on November 16.
Taipei City Government has invested many years into the development of a smart city. The effort has won numerous recognitions from the international community. The Smart City Index 2021, recently published by the IMD Business School, ranked Taipei City fourth globally and second place in Asia. This honor once again confirms the city’s accomplishments in this area.
In order to promote Chiayi City as a healthy and age-friendly city, the City Government led by Ming-hui Huang the mayor actively attends related international and domestic events. Chiayi City was invited to the 9th Global Conference of the Alliance for Healthy Cities (AFHC) to share the experience.
Taichung has emerged as one of the world’s eight top trending destinations, according to an analysis by online travel agency Booking.com that compared hotel booking rates before and during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Taipei Zoo is hoping a female Malayan tapir that recently arrived in Taipei on loan from the Singapore Zoo will mate with its male tapir and take a small step toward securing the endangered animal's survival, it said in a statement on Monday.
The Department of Information Technology and the Department of Education of Taipei City Government held the Learning without Boundaries - Taipei x Queensland Webinar with the GO SMART, the Australian Office in Taipei and the Trade and Investment Queensland on the afternoon of October 28 to discuss smart learning without borders during the pandemic era. The event was streamed by the TPMO, with experts in the fields of digital transformation and education of smart cities sharing their experience.
We want to send out a big congratulations to the Alishan Chukou Visitor Center for winning the Silver Prize for Interior Design at the 2021 Muse Design Awards! The Center was nominated by the Alishan National Scenic Area Administration (the Administration), Ministry of Transportation and Communications. Receiving this recognition from among 4,876 global entries is a great honor for the Center, and its design demonstrates a positive reflection of “soft power” from Taiwan to the world.
