Supported by the Cultural Division of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Thailand, Taiwanese contemporary circus group Circus Gate (馬戲之門) was invited to showcase their work “After” at the Bangkok International Children’s Theatre Festival on Aug. 2, bringing a dazzling show to the local crowd.
The Ministry of Culture (MOC) held a media event on Aug. 5 to introduce the main theme of the 2024 Creative Expo Taiwan, which will be hosted in Tainan City. In addition, the curatorial team unveiled the exhibition zones across the region.
The 2024 Asia-Pacific Health Promotion and Non-Communicable Disease Prevention Workshop, jointly organized by the Health Promotion Administration, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Taiwan, the Asia-Pacific Academic Consortium for Public Health Collaborating Centres for Health Promotion (APACPH CCHP), the Taiwan Association for Global Health Initiative (TAGHI), and the Institute of Population Health Sciences, National Health Research Institutes, is held from August 6th to August 7th.
The 2024 Asian Art Biennial is set to open in November this year. The National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (NTMoFA) revealed the Biennial theme, as well as the first batch of participating artists and their works, in a press conference on Aug. 1.
The 2024 Taiwan Culinary Exhibition is set to start Aug. 2-5 at Taipei World Trade Center, according to the Ministry of Agriculture.
Taiwan-made films “Suffocating Love (愛的噩夢),” “Trouble Girl (小曉),” and “Snow in Midsummer (五月雪)” were selected for Uncaged Award for Best Feature Film Competition at this year’s New York Asian Film Festival (NYAFF). During the closing ceremony on July 28, it was unveiled that “Snow in Midsummer” had won the award.
After 18 years, the 12th National Jamboree, Scouts of China (Taiwan) finally returns to Tsou Ma Lai Farm in Tainan. With “Working Together, Embracing the World, and Heading Towards Sustainability” as this year’s theme, the event welcomed nearly 8,000 scouts from 18 countries including Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Sri Lanka.
The Education Division at the Taipei Economic and Cultural Center in India, a representative office of Taiwan’s Ministry of Education, signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Jerusalem College of Engineering, an autonomous engineering college in southern India, in a virtual signing ceremony held on the 23rd of May, 2024. The MOU was signed by Peters Chen, Director of the Education Division, and by Dr Ramesh S., the principal of Jerusalem College of Engineering.
The Education Division of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Thailand organized a Meeting and Sharing about Start-up Business Experiences of Taiwan Alumni in Thailand 2024 meeting to give alumni an opportunity to exchange insights about starting up businesses in Thailand. The meeting was held at the Evergreen Laurel Hotel in Bangkok on May 18, and attended by 65 alumni from 23 Taiwanese universities and members of the Association of Taiwan Alumni (Thailand).
On April 13, 2024, a delegation from Wenzao Ursuline University of Languages, comprising Dr. Liao Shu-hui 廖淑慧, Director of the university’s Chinese Language Center; Dr. Li Jia Hao李家豪, an assistant professor in the Department of Applied Chinese; Dr. Lin Tsui Yun林翠雲, also an assistant professor in the Department of Applied Chinese; and Chen Zhaoyu陳昭宇, a specialist at the Chinese Language Center conducted an advanced Mandarin teaching workshop in Vietnam.
