PROMOTIONAL CAMPAIGN: The agency budgeted NT$14.85 million for a celebrity ambassador, as 111,000 Vietnamese visited as tourists in the first quarter of this year
A partnership the Tourism Administration had with Nguyen Thuc Thuy Tien, a former beauty pageant winner, as tourism ambassador for Taiwan in Vietnam has been canceled after she was accused of involvement in a crime, the agency said yesterday.The Tourism Administration has been recruiting tourism amb
Traditional Chinese medicine dealers yesterday urged greater distinction of the industry from Western pharmaceutical manufacturing, and called for the establishment of certification and education in traditional Chinese medicine, as China and South Korea have.Staging a rally outside the Ministry of H
Lawmakers yesterday urged the government to get tough on social media platforms, amid growing frustrations over the latter’s perceived indifference in protecting users.They made the comments at a meeting of the Legislative Yuan’s Transportation Committee attended by top Ministry of Digital Affairs o
Starting next month, people aged 18 to 49 can register to receive a digital Hakka token worth NT$1,000 that could be spent at participating stores across 70 Hakka cultural zones in 11 municipalities, the Hakka Affairs Council announced yesterday.The council announced its plan to distribute 280,000 o
At a ceremony for the inaugural Baifang Schell Book Prize, translator Lin King (金翎) called on writers and readers to recognize the value of Taiwan’s narratives.After receiving the Award for Outstanding Translated Literature from Chinese Language, King said “Don’t think Taiwan is too small, or that n
HUGE INVESTMENT: Up to NT$100 billion is expected to be used from a national development fund to enable AI transformations across all industries
The National Development Council (NDC) is developing 10 major artificial intelligence (AI) projects to advance the nation’s AI infrastructure, Executive Yuan Secretary-General Kung Ming-hsin (龔明鑫) said yesterday at the Business Today Taiwan Future International Summit in Taipei.The projects, which
President William Lai (賴清德) yesterday expressed gratitude to the leaders of the Group of Seven (G7) members for their support of peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait and their concerns about China’s destabilizing activities in the region.The G7 summit wrapped up in Kananaskis, Alberta in Canada
NOT A SECRET: While previous US delegations are likely to have had meetings with Taiwanese ministers of national defense, they are not usually publicly disclosed
A group of US lawmakers held a rare publicly disclosed meeting with Taiwan’s top defense official, a discussion that risks spurring China to step up its military intimidation of the democracy.The delegation, led by US Representative Ami Bera from California, met with Minister of National Defense Wel
The Taipei District Court on Tuesday evening ordered that three senior staff from the Taipei branch of the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) remain in detention over their alleged involvement in the forgery of thousands of signatures to recall two Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) lawmakers.The court
The Taiwan Solidarity Union (TSU) and pro-independence advocates yesterday condemned pervasive signature forgery and related fraud by members of the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT), which they said subverts Taiwan’s democratic framework, and undermines citizens rights to elect and recall political r
A Japanese cybersecurity strategist at a security conference in Rome voiced concern that China’s cyberattacks and its cutting of undersea communications cables in the Taiwan Strait could be omens of possible conflict in the region.Mihoko Matsubara, chief cybersecurity strategist at Japan’s Nippon Te
Bustling Taipei-style shopping streets, majestic temples to Taiwan’s deities and thriving factories dot the eastern Chinese city of Kunshan, for years a hub for Taiwanese businesses, but now the firms are feeling the strain from cross-strait tensions that have stoked safety fears.Entrepreneurs from
Shipments of pork and pork products from Kinmen County to other parts of Taiwan have been suspended until June 23 after a pig carcass found on a beach in the outlying county last week tested positive for African swine fever (ASF).The one-week suspension was announced by the Ministry of Agriculture (
Children from Taichung’s Chong-Guang Elementary School hold rice stalks that they harvested in in Taichung’s Dali District yesterday. The event was held by the Dali District Farmers’ Association for teachers and students to experience rice farming.
Doctors and volunteers hold placards promoting organ donation outside the Chimei Foundation Medical Center in Tainan yesterday.
People dressed in traditional indigenous clothing dance at an unveiling ceremony for the Preparatory Office of the National Museum of Indigenous Peoples in Kaohsiung. The museum is set to begin operating in 2032.
National Taiwan University (NTU) this year placed 14th in the Times Higher Education Impact Rankings, the best result ever achieved by a Taiwanese university.The rankings, which evaluate the contributions made by universities toward the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), assessed 2,526 insti
The Legislative Yuan’s Finance Committee today passed a draft amendment to the Commodity Tax Act (貨物稅條例) that would exempt sugar-free drinks from taxes, in an effort to promote health. Lawmakers across party lines agreed that bottled beverages without added sugar, and which are produced in certain f
Taiwan's men's recurve archery team today won bronze at the Archery Asia Cup in Singapore, defeating Bangladesh 5-3 in the third-place playoff.The team was composed of Yang Kai-han (楊凱涵), 20, Lin Yu-yang (林育暘), 17, and Liu Tai-yen (劉泰言), 20.Their performance was decent overall, but the athletes "sti
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