The 32nd coronavirus case is an Indonesian missing migrant worker, Xiao Li (小莉), causing great attention at that time. Today (May 12), Director-general Chiu Feng-kuang posted on Facebook, "NIA署長室", that Xiao Li wrote a thank you card for the National Immigration Agency (NIA) to express her gratitude for all doctors and nurses on International Nurses Day.
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As the nation-wide epidemic prevention have been implemented comprehensively, local pharmacies also work with the government to provide masks for the public. The Seven Star Pharmacy in Chiayi has provided multilingual services for new immigrants, migrant workers, and their children for several decades to obtain proper advice and services when purchasing medicines.
Indonesian state-owned Bank Negara Indonesia (BNI) said Sunday that it has distributed thousands of surgical face masks for Indonesian migrant workers in Taiwan in an effort to help prevent the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus. Of that number, 2,000 pieces were distributed to Indonesian migrant workers in Tainan that day, BNI said.
To strengthen the publicity of epidemic prevention to migrant workers, Taipei City Foreign and Disabled Labor Office particularly visited the Indonesian food street in Taipei Station to give away flyers of epidemic prevention to more than 10 restaurant owners on Feb. 21. and asked them to distribute the flyers to foreign customers.
The "serious special epidemic pneumonia (referred to as the Wuhan pneumonia)" hasn't eased, so the government called on the public to practice regular hand-washing and carry out epidemic prevention together.
Taipei, Jan. 31 (CNA) Philippine box office record-breaking romantic drama "Hello, Love, Goodbye" is heading back to Taiwan on Valentine's Day as the first Filipino film ever to be screened at VieShow Cinemas, one of the largest movie outlets in Taiwan, according to a statement released by Filipino media and entertainment group ABS-CBN Friday.
To help settle disputes between migrant workers and their employers, Taipei City has launched the professional mediator system in 2018 with professional lawyers as mediators. In 2019, a total of 179 mediation meetings were held, successfully resolving at least 85% of the disputes.
Filipinos in Taipei donned colorful costumes Sunday to celebrate a Catholic festival, the Sinulog, which was imported from their home country and is observed annually on the third Sunday of January. More than 200 Catholics, mostly Filipinos, gathered at St. Christopher's Church (SCC) in Taipei for the Sinulog Festival that takes the form of a ritual prayer-dance in honor of Senor Santo Nino -- the Catholic title of the Child Jesus in the Philippines.
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