Premier Su Tseng-chang noted Thursday that the U.S.-based organization Freedom House continues to list Taiwan as a “free” country, which over the past three years has consistently ranked above such democracies as the U.S. and France. Last year Taiwan was the only country in Asia rated as “open” in People Power Under Attack 2020, a report by CIVICUS, a global alliance of civil society organizations and activists.
Inbound investment from countries targeted by Taiwan’s New Southbound Policy grew 61.6 percent to US$381 million in the four years since its launch, according to the latest statistics released by the Bureau of Foreign Trade under the Ministry of Economic Affairs March 4.
Taiwan’s three science parks reported revenues of NT$3.28 trillion (US$117.85 billion) for 2020, up 15.03 percent year on year and setting an all-time high, according to the Ministry of Science and Technology.
A grinding wheel—or “sand wheel” in Chinese—is neither a wheel made from sand nor a big-wheeled steamship that transports sand, but rather a tool that grinds or cuts a variety of materials such as plastic, wood, and steel. And Kinik Company (formerly China Grinding Wheel Corp.) is not a state-owned enterprise of Taiwan or of mainland China, but rather a privately owned company with a traditional manufacturing background, based in Yingge, New Taipei City.
The K-12 Education Administration of Ministry of Education announces to simplify the New immigrant’s academic degree certificate process. Since 2016, the K-12 Education Administration (Ministry of Education) has been constructing a database that contains elementary and middle schools in Southeast Asia. They hope to guarantee new immigrant’s education and employment rights.
On March 4, the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) announced two new confirmed imported cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Taiwan. Those two new cases (Case #960 and Case #961) arrived in Taiwan from Nigeria and the Philippines.
The Executive Yuan has approved the first Energy Transition Whitepaper of Taiwan on November 18, 2020. The Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) and related ministries and agencies have proposed 10 indicators of energy transition promotion performance.
Boosting the global sales of Taiwan agricultural products while diversifying the country’s export markets and safeguarding the livelihoods of farmers is a top policy priority going forward, according to the Cabinet-level Council of Agriculture March 2.
