The Overseas Community Affairs Council (OCAC) said on Monday that it will serve as a platform to allow overseas Taiwanese groups easier access to buy Taiwan-made surgical face masks, after the government announced the lifting of a ban on the export and open market mask sales on June 1.

Taiwan's exports in May fell for the third consecutive month amid lower demand from overseas economies throttled by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Ministry of Finance (MOF) reported on Monday.

The Ministry of Health and Welfare has launched a website to share with the world the successful policies that Taiwan has implemented in its prevention efforts against the COVID-19 pandemic, the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) said Sunday.

Taiwan began lifting COVID-19 related restrictions on June 7. Here is a list of eased measures.

Taiwan will resume fresh pork exports in the second half of 2020 if it is named next week, as expected, as a foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) free country where vaccination is not practiced, the Council of Agriculture (COA) said Monday.

Taiwan retained its position as having the fourth largest foreign exchange reserves in the world at the end of May, as forex reserves hit a record high, according to the central bank. Data compiled by the central bank showed Taiwan's forex reserves as of May totaled US$484.52 billion, up US$2.73 billion from a month earlier, helping the country retain its position as having the fourth largest forex assets in the world.