The 2023-24 Taiwan Scholarship and Huayu Enrichment Scholarship Recipients Orientation and Welcome Party, a vibrant event welcoming the new academic year, was held on November 10th at the Chang Yung-Fa Foundation. The Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and diplomats from various countries came together to welcome the new scholarship recipients who have chosen Taiwan for their studies.
An international conference on advancing the rights of Indigenous peoples was held Dec. 9 in New Taipei City by the Council of Indigenous Peoples as part of the organization’s 27th anniversary celebrations.
A higher education delegation from India, led by Dr. Gundurao Sitharam Thallak, Chairman of the All India Council of Technical Education, visited Taiwan in early September, to strengthen educational ties with universities in Taiwan. The other ten members of the delegation comprised five vice-chancellors and five professors from five universities in India.
The Thailand Biennale 2023 kicked off in Chiang Rai on Dec. 9. This year’s theme is “Open World.” Among 60 artists from around the globe, three Taiwanese artists – Wang Wen-chih (王文志), Michael Lin (林明弘), and Hsu Chia-wei (許家維) – were invited to showcase their artworks.
The National Development Council (NDC) Minister, Kung Ming-hsin, represented the government at the 2023 Discussion Paper launch hosted by the Australia New Zealand Chamber of Commerce in Taiwan (ANZCham) on December 7th, 2023, and accepted the Discussion Paper.
The Ministry of Education (MOE) organized the largest international student design competition, the “2023 Taiwan International Student Creative Design Competition (16th TISDC)”, and held the award ceremony on December 1 at the Songshan Cultural and Creative Park Eslite Performance Hall.
The 2023 Golden Pin Design Award Exhibition will officially kick off at the Taiwan Design Museum on November 21st. The theme of exhibition is “Multidimensional Hyperplasia,” emphasizing that cross-disciplinary collaboration is an inevitable trend in contemporary design. Designers not only need to excel in design but also collaborate with various professions to synergy unique perspectives and innovative methods.
To deepen the understanding of the diverse values of agriculture among the new generation of international youth in Taiwan, the Ministry of Agriculture successfully organized a series of five events titled “Linking Taiwan’s Agriculture to New Areas” from November 4 to December 2, 2023, attracting over a hundred elite students from diverse disciplines and agricultural backgrounds from 11 countries, including Vietnam, Thailand, the Philippines, Indonesia, India, and Singapore etc. They visited 11
The International Institute for Management Development (IMD) released the 2023 World Digital Competitiveness Ranking (DCR) today (30th). In this assessment of 64 major countries and economies worldwide, Taiwan has secured the 9th position, marking an improvement of 2 places compared to 2022. Notably, Taiwan leads globally in five key indicators.
The inaugural Austronesian Forum of Female Opinion Leadership was held Nov. 26 at Taipei International Convention Center to deepen exchanges with Taiwan’s Indo-Pacific partners and expand connections within the global Indigenous community.
