Volunteer translators from Southeast Asia, who live in Taiwan and work with the National Immigration Agency (NIA), were given a special tour of National Palace Museum Sunday in their native languages, according to a press statement released by the NIA that day.
The soon to be inaugurated Taipei Music Center (TMC), which will hold its opening concert next month, will become a new icon for popular music in Asia, officials said Monday.
The Ministry of Culture in 2015 set up the Southeast Asian (SEA) Advisory Committee to promote cultural interaction with Taiwan’s neighbors in the region. Over the years, members of the committee, representing different Southeast Asian countries, have generated considerable awareness and interest in Taiwan's cultural development.
The Cultural Division of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office (TECO) in Sydney and the Australian Centre on China in the World (CIW), a research institution under the Australian National University, inked an agreement on July 31 to cooperate in preliminary study for the Taiwan-Australia collaborated cultural project ,“Wayfaring: Photography in 1970s-80s Taiwan” exhibition.
The Ministry of Education (MOE) said Wednesday said that all international students enrolled in Taiwan universities will be allowed to return to continue their studies, but it later made reversal on one aspect of the policy, saying students from China are not included. As part of its response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Taiwan had closed its borders to foreign nationals on Mar. 19, but has been gradually easing the restrictions to allow the return of some international students and others.
Singapore Airlines said it will restart three services per week between Taoyuan and Singapore from September, following the temporary suspension of flights due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Former defense chief of Australia, Paul Dibb said that Australia should protect Taiwan from China. He wrote his thoughts in an article that came out Tuesday in The Australian. Dibb said that Australia should side with the US if there is a confrontation with China over Taiwan.
A Taipei high school student was recently honored for a project combining Malaysian cuisine and artificial intelligence sponsored by a government program for the children of new immigrants, the National Immigration Agency (NIA) said Sunday.
The Ministry of Education (MOE) has announced that graduating students from the academic year 108 from outside the 19 low-risk and medium-risk countries/regions are allowed to return to the Republic of China (ROC) (Taiwan) for study.
The Ministry of Education’s Youth Global Action Plan is affording young adults the chance to learn from other countries’ best practices and promote social change in Taiwan.
