To attract more top-flight international talent to Taiwan, the Executive Yuan on Thursday approved the National Development Council’s draft amendments to the Act for the Recruitment and Employment of Foreign Professionals. The draft amendments will be forwarded to the Legislature for deliberation.
“Super Policy (超級縣政),” the poster displayed at the 2019 Taiwan Design Expo in Pingtung, is a Design Excellence winner of the 2021 iF Design Award 2021. Commissioned by the Pingtung County Government, Chiang Meng-chih (江孟芝), creative director of Taipei-based Mengdom Design Lab, created the poster, which features the county government’s policies on agriculture, labor affairs, civic engineering, environmental protection, social welfare, Hakka affairs, indigenous affairs, education and culture.
On April 14, the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) reported that COVID-19 continued to spread in Cambodia and the country’s cases were on an upward trend recently, with new infections exceeding the limit of the standard for the CECC’s list of medium-risk countries/regions. Therefore, the CECC will remove Cambodia from its list of medium-risk countries/region, effective immediately.
The Islamic Cultural Exhibition featuring Arabic calligraphy works, religious artifacts and items, and photographs of celebrated mosques from around Taiwan and abroad is underway at National Dr. Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall in Taipei City.
On April 14, the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) announced five new confirmed imported cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Taiwan. Those five new cases arrived in Taiwan from the Philippines (Case #1064 and Case #1065), Russia (Case #1066), the UK (Case #1067), and Canada (Case #1068).
On April 14, the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) announced it would initially offer 10,000 self-paid COVID-19 vaccine doses to members of the public starting April 21. Related details are listed below.
According to The China Post, Dajia Jenn Lann Temple (大甲鎮瀾宮) joined hands with Taiwan Digital Diplomacy (TDD, 台灣數位外交協會) to invite nearly 100 diplomatic envoys from 13 countries to participate in the Dajia Mazu Pilgrimage (大甲媽祖繞境), which kicked off on April 9, lasting until April 18.
