“When everyone is pulling together, as we move farther backward we all realize victory is ours!”—Coach Kuo Sheng, Taipei Jingmei Girls High School

At the World Games held in Chengdu, China in August of 2025, Taiwan’s women’s tug-of-war team found their footing in the mud and won the gold medal in the 500-kilogram weight class, marking Taiwan’s sixth consecutive triumph in this event.

Queenie Wu dazzled the world of artisan chocolates by winning six Golds at the Inter­national Chocolate Awards between 2020 and 2024. Since she established Q Sweet in 2015, she has been expressing her heart and soul through chocolate.

In recent years, the rise of Taiwan’s chocolate industry has seen Queenie Wu’s emergence as a game changer in the field. Between 2020 and 2024, she won six Golds at the International Chocolate Awards, becoming the first Asian chocolatier to accomplish this feat.

Premier Cho Jung-tai held the 34th meeting of the Executive Yuan’s Gender Equality Committee Dec. 24 in Taipei City.

Over the years, Taiwan Panorama has probed into the evolution of Taiwanese society from the perspective of gender equality. From home-based manual work to entrepreneurship, from housekeeping to jobs in the military and police and in various other professional fields such as orchestral conducting, we have illuminated how Taiwanese women defy conventions and embrace new social roles.

The Executive Yuan unveiled the fifth national report on the implementation of the U.N. Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) Dec. 10, highlighting government commitment to protecting women’s rights.

The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) of Taiwan, led by Vice Chairperson Ms. Hui-Jung Chi and Commissioner Dr. Upay Radiw Kanasaw, visited Fiji from November 9 to 16 to attend the 30th APF Annual General Meeting (AGM) and Biennial Conference as an invited observer. During the AGM, the NHRC shared its efforts to protect the rights of pregnant migrant workers in Taiwan with nearly 30 APF member institutions participating in-person and online from across the region.

To promote education collaboration and talent development across the Asia-Pacific region, the Ministry of Education (MOE) is hosting the 2025 APEC Forum on Women and Youth Empowerment: Enhancing Digital Competitiveness and Inclusive Economic Growth through Innovative Enterprise Education from November 5 to 7 in Taipei.

A delegation from Taiwan took part in the Women and the Economy Forum held by the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Aug. 9-12 in Incheon, South Korea, to share the country’s gender equality and digital resilience policies.