Foreign Minister Jaushieh Joseph Wu said Taiwan will continue to enhance its defense capabilities to maintain the cross-strait status quo while safeguarding its freedom and democracy, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Brisbane's Taiwanese community held a rally on 14 May to support Taiwan's participation at the 2022 World Health Assembly.

When news of the illness that would later become known as COVID-19 made the rounds in Taiwan in early 2020, Lee Ping-ing (李秉穎), a pediatrician at National Taiwan University Hospital, was curious how the public would respond. “The reaction was obvious and surprisingly quick. I saw a third of metro riders in Taipei City immediately start wearing masks to protect against the then mysterious disease,” he said.

Former Vice President Chen Chien-jen is representing Taiwan at the Second Global COVID-19 Summit convened virtually May 12 by U.S. President Joe Biden from the White House, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The Indo-Pacific Formosa Club’s backing of Taiwan’s bid for meaningful participation in the activities, mechanisms and meetings of the World Health Organization is welcomed by the government and people, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs May 10.

On the morning of May 5, President Tsai Ing-wen met with members of a delegation from Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party Youth Division, all of whom are also members of Japan’s House of Representatives, and thanked the government of Japan, the Diet, and Japanese political figures for supporting Taiwan’s international participation on many occasions.

A short film spotlighting the ways Taiwan Can Help realize the World Health Organization’s goal of Health For All was released May 2 in the run-up to the 75th World Health Assembly by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The World Medical Association resolution supporting Taiwan’s meaningful participation in the activities, mechanisms and meetings of the World Health Organization is sincerely appreciated by the government and people, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Oct. 16.

In recent years, more and more young people are serving humanity by volunteering overseas, demonstrating that they too can lend a helping hand. Yet few also diligently consider the true meaning of volunteering. Having once had doubts about the need for volunteering, Dr. Chiang Cho-hung now aims to support sustainability and create solutions with his research as he moves beyond “cooperation” to “collaboration,” marching with others toward a collective future of global sustainability.

Professor Thierry Burnouf, a French-born therapeutic blood product expert and vice dean of the College of Biomedical Engineering at Taipei Medical University, is promoting international cooperation among academic researchers, helping research teams raise their global profile via research breakthroughs and the sharing of discoveries. Burnouf, who has lived in Taiwan for more than a decade and is now a naturalized citizen, says, “I’m so happy to have chosen to stay in Taiwan long term!”