Tainan Mayor William Lai (賴清德) yesterday departed for a week-long visit to the US.
Lai said earlier this week that he would visit New York, Washington and Los Angeles and deliver three speeches.
Lai is to give talks titled “Believe in Taiwan, see the future,” “Taiwan’s path to reform,” and “Taiwan’s challenges and way out” to Taiwanese expatriates during his visit.
The Tainan City Government said the mayor would also thank expatriates for their support and donations toward recovery efforts of the earthquake that hit the southern city on Feb. 6 last year and left 117 people dead.
Lai is scheduled to return on Sunday next week.
Meanwhile, Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je (柯文哲) is to lead a delegation to Turin, Italy, tomorrow to light the 2017 Summer Universiade flame.
Ko is to speak at the ceremony where the flame is to be lit on Tuesday night before passing it on to Taiwan’s torch bearers, who are to pass through Naples, Italy, Bangkok and Daegu, South Korea, before arriving in Taiwan on June 29.
The torch is to make its way to Jade Mountain, Taiwan’s highest peak at 3,952m, before traveling around the nation.
Ko is also expected to meet with Italian lawmakers and the Turin mayor, and visit historic sites in the city before returning on Thursday, the Taipei City Government said.
There are 77 incidents of Taiwanese travelers going missing in China between January last year and last month, the Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF) said. More than 40 remain unreachable, SEF Secretary-General Luo Wen-jia (羅文嘉) said on Friday. Most of the reachable people in the more than 30 other incidents were allegedly involved in fraud, while some had disappeared for personal reasons, Luo said. One of these people is Kuo Yu-hsuan (郭宇軒), a 22-year-old Taiwanese man from Kaohsiung who went missing while visiting China in August. China’s Taiwan Affairs Office last month said in a news statement that he was under investigation
An aviation jacket patch showing a Formosan black bear punching Winnie the Pooh has become popular overseas, including at an aviation festival held by the Japan Air Self-Defense Force at the Ashiya Airbase yesterday. The patch was designed last year by Taiwanese designer Hsu Fu-yu (徐福佑), who said that it was inspired by Taiwan’s countermeasures against frequent Chinese military aircraft incursions. The badge shows a Formosan black bear holding a Republic of China flag as it punches Winnie the Pooh — a reference to Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) — who is dressed in red and is holding a honey pot with
Celebrations marking Double Ten National Day are to begin in Taipei today before culminating in a fireworks display in Yunlin County on the night of Thursday next week. To start the celebrations, a concert is to be held at the Taipei Dome at 4pm today, featuring a lineup of award-winning singers, including Jody Chiang (江蕙), Samingad (紀曉君) and Huang Fei (黃妃), Taipei tourism bureau official Chueh Yu-ling (闕玉玲) told a news conference yesterday. School choirs, including the Pqwasan na Taoshan Choir and Hngzyang na Matui & Nahuy Children’s Choir, and the Ministry of National Defense Symphony Orchestra, flag presentation unit and choirs,
China is attempting to subsume Taiwanese culture under Chinese culture by promulgating legislation on preserving documents on ties between the Minnan region and Taiwan, a Taiwanese academic said yesterday. China on Tuesday enforced the Fujian Province Minnan and Taiwan Document Protection Act to counter Taiwanese cultural independence with historical evidence that would root out misleading claims, Chinese-language media outlet Straits Today reported yesterday. The act is “China’s first ad hoc local regulations in the cultural field that involve Taiwan and is a concrete step toward implementing the integrated development demonstration zone,” Fujian Provincial Archives deputy director Ma Jun-fan (馬俊凡) said. The documents
RSS