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!”
Taiwan’s representative office in Manila released a press release on Tuesday announcing the donation of 200 oxygen concentrators to the Philippines. The news came as the WHO’s representative in the Philippines confirmed community transmission of the Delta variant of COVID-19 in the country.
Taiwan is enhancing cooperation with Indo-Pacific stakeholders in promoting peace, security and prosperity throughout the region, according to Foreign Minister Jaushieh Joseph Wu.
On the evening of July 16, the Presidential Office held a press conference following the APEC Informal Leaders’ Retreat.
Leader’s Representative Dr. Morris Chang (張忠謀) successfully attended the entirety of the closed-door 2021 APEC Informal Leaders’ Retreat, which was held by videoconference from 7:00 pm to 9:40 pm on July 16 (Taipei time). This marked the first time since APEC’s founding in 1989 that the host has convened an additional mid-year leaders’ meeting.
Unprecedented support from Taiwan’s allies and like-minded partners around the world for the country’s participation in the World Health Assembly is sincerely appreciated by the government and people, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said June 1.
Officials from Taiwan, the U.S. and EU discussed ways of expanding Taiwan’s participation in international organizations during a virtual staged May 26 by Washington-based The German Marshall Fund of the United States.
Staunch support from the international community for Taiwan’s participation in the World Health Assembly is sincerely appreciated by the government and people, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said May 27.
Backing for Taiwan’s participation in the World Health Assembly from the Kingdom of Eswatini, Marshall Islands, Nauru and St. Vincent and Grenadines is deeply appreciated by the government and people, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs May 25.
