This year, the Smart City Summit & Expo (SCSE), long regarded as the largest smart city tradeshow in Asia, is taken to the next level as the top scale smart city in the world. The show’s Smart City Mayors’ Summit has even become the largest smart city summit that engages the largest number of city leaders, a significant accomplishment since Taipei City Government joined hands with Taipei Computer Association (TCA) to organize the event in 2016.
On March 14, President Tsai Ing-wen attended a luncheon with members of the foreign diplomatic corps to celebrate International Women’s Day. In remarks at the event, President Tsai noted that Taiwan has been actively working with other like-minded countries to establish mechanisms to promote gender equality, and pointed to Taiwan Gender Equality Week as a key platform for highlighting our progress in empowering women.
The Academy for Women Entrepreneurs (AWE), a program initiated and run by the United States government, began accepting applications Tuesday for the 2022 training program in Taiwan, which will be geared toward the technology sector.
On the evening of March 8, President Tsai Ing-wen attended the Women’s Power Night reception, marking the opening of Taiwan Gender Equality Week 2022. In remarks at the event, President Tsai said that Taiwan stands at the forefront of efforts to promote gender equality and women’s empowerment, and stated that Taiwan will continue to pursue broad engagement with like-minded nations and international organizations toward these goals.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) of the Republic of China (Taiwan) and the nongovernmental organization (NGO) the Foundation of Women’s Rights Promotion and Development (FWRPD) are jointly holding Taiwan Gender Equality Week (TGEW) for a third year running. The timing of the program again corresponds with the annual meeting in March of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW).
Taiwan’s comics industry has historically had two golden ages, each creating numerous famous figures whose works have spanned media and even reached across borders. However, for any number of reasons, the industry has more recently been in the doldrums, with the environment particularly difficult in the past decade.
When it comes to Taiwanese films, we usually think of famous directors such as Hou Hsiao-hsien, Edward Yang and Ang Lee. In recent years, however, young filmmakers originally from other countries, such as Malaysian-born Ho Wi Ding and Myanmar-born Lee Yong Chao and Midi Z, have also garnered critical acclaim in both Taiwan and the wider world. These immigrant directors are breathing new life into Taiwan’s film industry with their international perspectives.
Taiwan recorded the decade’s highest rate of female participation in the workforce among women aged 45-64 years — 52.3 percent in 2020, according to the Cabinet-level Department of Gender Equality Jan. 22.
Taiwan, the U.S., Japan and newly designated full partner Australia staged the annual Global Cooperation and Training Framework Joint Committee Meeting Dec. 17 in Taipei City, reviewing the results of 2021 workshops and planning for the year ahead.
A forum enhancing public-private partnership while promoting exchanges between locally-based nongovernmental organizations and their international counterparts was staged Dec. 14 in Taipei City, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
