Last Days at Sea is a documentary film produced by Venice Atienza together with Fan Wu. The documentary is produced by the Svemirko Film Productions, which is a company co-founded by Venice Atienza from the Philippines and Fan Wu from Taiwan. The documentary is competing at the 71st Berlinale-Berlin International Film Festival Generation Section.
Taichung’s tourism garners yet another international distinction. The list of winners for the 2021 Japan World's Tourism Film Festival was announced recently and Taichung City Tourism and Travel Bureau’s Taichung. The Heart of Taiwan stood out from the competition to win the Best Southeast Asian Film Award, marking yet another successful endeavor in international marketing.
Following a presentation Thursday by the Ministry of Culture (MOC) on achievements in the revitalization and guidance of national cinema, Premier Su Tseng-chang said that Taiwan has the world’s richest repository of moving stories, and that the government would continue its assistance and support for the movie industry. The premier said that in addition to sharing the nation’s many engaging tales with the world, domestic cinema can draw talent from abroad to come make films in Taiwan.
The “Happy Seed Volunteer Team” (幸福種子志工隊) of the Penghu County New Immigrant Family Service Center will be organizing a series of “on-the-job training course.” The course will be held on March 17, March 18, March 24 and March 27. The total course hours will be 12 hours. New immigrants are welcome to join the volunteer group.
A workshop on building resilience to disasters was staged under the Taiwan-U.S.-Japan Global Cooperation and Training Framework March 10 in Taipei City, underscoring the commitment of like-minded partners to deepening cooperation in disaster prevention and mitigation.
“2021 Taipei Fashion Week AW21” kicked off on March 11 at Songshan Cultural and Creative Park. Revolving around the theme of “Sustainable Fashion,” six Taiwanese designers were invited to expound on the concept of “sustainable fashion” as they join efforts with the domestic textile industry in blending functional fabrics with fashion aesthetics.
Migrant workers in Taiwan whose contracts are about to expire will be eligible to obtain a six-month extension, the Ministry of Labor’s (MOL) Workforce Development Agency said Wednesday, citing the need to reduce international travel amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Singapore has ordered 25 tons of pineapples from Tainan, Taiwan. That’s as Taiwan faces a sudden ban of its pineapples from China in place since March 1. Since China is Taiwan’s primary pineapple export market, the ban has led to a crisis that has only been resolved by an increase of domestic orders.
Taiwan’s export orders increased 9.7 percent year on year to US$27.79 billion in February, according to the Ministry of Finance March 9.
On March 10, the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) announced one new confirmed imported case of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Taiwan. The new case, Case #979, is an over 20-year-old male migrant worker from the Philippines. The migrant worker visited Taiwan for work on February 28.
