Minister of Foreign Affairs Lin Chia-lung attended the opening ceremony of an international conference on security in the Indo-Pacific Feb. 18 in Taipei City.
The Cabinet-level Ocean Affairs Council Minister Kuan Bi-ling said Feb. 19 that the council is committed to working with its Indo-Pacific counterparts to safeguard peace, prosperity and stability in the region. Kuan made the remarks during an interview on a current affairs Yahoo TV program.
The Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) and Australia’s Department of Agriculture, Fisheries, and Forestry (DAFF) held the 19th Taiwan-Australia Agricultural Working Group (AWG) Meeting on February 19 in Brisbane, Australia.
People think that Bamboola owner Liu Wenhuang’s “puzzle boxes” are based on curio cabinets or trick boxes in Chinese craft traditions, but Liu doesn’t agree. Countering such observations, he does not mince his words: “Do you know what creativity is about?”
The Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Sydney collaborates with the Arts Centre Melbourne to present “Gapu Ngupan (追尋彩虹),” a Taiwan-Australia co-production, at the Asia-Pacific Triennial of Performing Arts (Asia TOPA) from Feb. 27 to Mar. 1.
On February 18, a Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) navy helicopter conducted dangerous maneuvers in airspace above Huangyan Island (Scarborough Shoal) in the South China Sea, converging on a Philippine Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources aircraft on routine patrol. At one point, the two planes were only three meters apart, causing a hazardous situation for the Philippine aircraft.
