Kicking off at Jinzun Harbor on November 23, the 2019 Taiwan Open of Surfing runs until December 7. In cooperation with the World Surfing League (WSL), the World Longboard Championship and World Junior Surfing Championship will once again take place.
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Taipei has been ranked sixth out the 113 most inclusive cities in the world listed in the first ever Prosperity & Inclusive City Seal and Awards (PICSA) index, Taipei City government announced late Thursday.

A delegation of 35 teachers and students from Chung Cheng High School (Yishun) in Singapore visited Taipei Municipal Chengde Junior High School to engage in cultural and creative activities, a class sit-in experience, as well as soccer and basketball camps on November 13.

Taipei City Mayor Ko Wen-je visited Taipei Expo Park’s Expo Dome on the morning of November 15 to attend the 2019 Meet Taipei Startup Festival. During his speech, he commented that the largest startup gathering in Asia was founded by Taiwan; now in its 6th year, this year's theme is inspired by the notion of The Startup Landscape, which aims to establish associations between accelerators, enterprises, investors, and entrepreneurs.
Mayor Ko has especially ordered to reinforce services for migrant workers. Consequently, the Department of Labor (DOL), Taipei City Government, has also set forth Working Guidelines for the Special Unit for Reinforcing Care and Counseling Policies for International Migrant Workers, as it vows to promote services for migrant workers alongside associated departments at the City Government.

The Pingtung International Kite Festival has dressed up the sky of Pingtung for three consecutive years. The festival opened at Pingtung Riverside Park on November 2 and 3. On the first day, more than 200,000 people visited the event which was highly praised.

Hailed as the Academy Awards of the landscaping scene, the IFLA Asia-Pac Landscape Architecture (LA) Awards was held on November 8, 2019, in Cebu, Philippines.

Style Bangkok Fair started on October 17th in Bangkok. On the first day “TAIPEI Corners” already caught the attention of Thai company “The Emporium Department Store”, “SIAM SELECTED Department Store, and American company “Amazwishgifts”. These distributors placed many orders.

The 26th ITS World Congress 2019, one of the largest global events in smart transportation technologies, was recently held in Singapore, and Taichung City became the most prolific Taiwanese municipality in terms of the number of essays published in the congress.
To participate in Taiwan EXPO 2019 in Philippine on Nov. 8-9 this year, Kaohsiung City Government sets up Kaohsiung Goods Pavilion, presenting with renowned medical devices, including dental chairs, dental digital equipment, implant real-time imaging systems, dental AR simulators, dental implant systems, dental bone graft and membrane, and also Kaohsiung top 10 cosmetics souvenirs, which are qualified to comply with Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) set by the ISO 22716 standard.