Mayor Rob van Gijzel of Eindhoven in the Netherlands on Monday expressed his support for Taipei’s bid to earn the title of World Design Capital in 2016 and endorsed the development of Taipei’s cultural and creative industry.
In a meeting with Taipei Mayor Hau Lung-bin (郝龍斌) at the World Trade Center in Amsterdam, van Gijzel said he was impressed with Taipei’s development in the area of design and in its cultural and creative sectors.
He said he would back Taipei’s efforts to be designated by the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design as a world design capital.
Hau, who was into the second day of his visit to the Netherlands, said that Taipei’s technology parks had been a big success.
The Neihu Technology Park and Nangang Software Park have attracted many international companies, especially since the Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA) between Taiwan and China took effect in September last year, Hau said.
In response, van Gijzel expressed high interest in the thriving development at the parks.
Van Gijzel is scheduled to visit Taipei later this month to gain a deeper understanding of the city’s trade and investment environment, and to sign agreements on exchanges between Eindhoven and Taipei.
Eindhoven, one of the biggest cities in the Netherlands, is renowned for its high-tech environment and industrial design. It was named the world’s most intelligent community by the US Intelligent Community Forum this year — a title that Taipei won in 2006.
A group of Taiwanese-American and Tibetan-American students at Harvard University on Saturday disrupted Chinese Ambassador to the US Xie Feng’s (謝鋒) speech at the school, accusing him of being responsible for numerous human rights violations. Four students — two Taiwanese Americans and two from Tibet — held up banners inside a conference hall where Xie was delivering a speech at the opening ceremony of the Harvard Kennedy School China Conference 2024. In a video clip provided by the Coalition of Students Resisting the CCP (Chinese Communist Party), Taiwanese-American Cosette Wu (吳亭樺) and Tibetan-American Tsering Yangchen are seen holding banners that together read:
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