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• Taiwan News Quick Take

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  CULTURE

  Macau Orchestra to visit

  The Macau Orchestra is to perform in Taiwan for the first time during a concert tour opening today, performing works by Rachmaninoff and other masters. Led by artistic director and principal conductor Lu Jia (呂嘉), the orchestra will hold concerts in Taipei today, in Hsinchu on Saturday, in Greater Kaohsiung on Monday and in Greater Taichung on Tuesday, said the tour’s promoter, New Aspect, Environment, Culture & Creation. Taiwanese pianist Rueibin Chen (陳瑞斌) is to join the orchestra in performing Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18, while Chinese pipa player Zhang Hongyan (章紅艷) is to perform Little Sisters of the Grassland, a Chinese pipa concerto composed by Liu Dehai (劉德海), Wu Zuqiang (吳祖強) and Wang Yanqiao (王燕樵).

  CULTURE

  NY to show Taiwanese films

  Four Taiwan-produced films will be screened at the upcoming 37th Asian American International Film Festival in New York, with each showing a different side of Taiwanese society. The films include director Cho Li’s (卓立) The Rice Bomber, based on the true story of Yang Ju-men (楊儒門), a man who planted 17 rice-filled explosive devices in Taiwan in 2003 and 2004 to protest what he saw as the government’s neglect of farmers. Also to be shown are director Chang Tso-chi’s (張作驥) A Time in Quchi, a film about a boy who comes of age while visiting his grandfather in rural Quchi in New Taipei City, and US director Henry Chan’s (陳發中) romantic comedy 100 Days, which concerns a career-obsessed man who returns to his hometown after his mother’s death, only to run into his childhood sweetheart. The black-and-white short A Breath From the Bottom by director Chan Ching-lin (詹京霖) is also to be screened at the festival, which takes place from July 24 to Aug. 2.

  SOCIETY

  Charities report missions

  Taiwanese charity groups traveled to remote areas of Sri Lanka and Mongolia earlier this month to provide medical services to people in the countries, said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which covered part of the missions’ costs. The Taiwan Root Medical Peace Corps provided free treatment for people in southern Sri Lanka on a July 5 to 13 medical mission, Department of NGO International Affairs director-general Ray Mou (牟華瑋) said on Tuesday. Meanwhile, the Bliss and Wisdom Cultural Foundation sent a mission to Mongolia from July 6 until Thursday last week, Mou said. During its trip, the mission provided clinical services, basic checkups and seminars on health education.

  SOCIETY

  Global affairs camp to open

  A summer camp aimed at increasing young people’s understanding of international affairs and the development of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) is to be held next month in Taipei, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said. The ministry is commissioning the Taipei-based Ming Chuan University to organize the five-day camp, which is to begin on Aug. 13, said Ray Mou (牟華瑋), director-general of the ministry’s Department of NGO International Affairs Lectures. The camp will include discussions on topics such as eradicating poverty, encouraging sustainable development and gender equality, he said, adding that visits to local NGOs would also be part of the itinerary. The camp is open to those aged 18 to 35, and proficiency in English is required, as it is an all-English-language program, Mou added. This is second year that the camp is being conducted solely in English.
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