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.
Tainan’s pomelos are entering their harvest season. As orders from home and abroad start to flow in, co-op packaging factories have kicked off their export packaging and cargo stacking operations.
ICONIC AWARDS (short for ICONIC), an iconic international architecture and design competition, has released the List of 2021 winners. Pingtung Civic Park entered the competition with “Heito 1909” and stood out with its outstanding conception and creativity. Even better news, it was selected and won the highest honor of Iconic Awards- the “Best of Best” award.
The Keelung Miaokou Night Market in northern Taiwan was recently named as one of the world’s top 20 food markets by lifestyle magazine Tatler, an honor the city’s mayor described as a timely morale boost.
