Taipei, Nov. 29 (CNA) High school students from Taiwan and eight other countries met in Taipei Sunday as part of an international education exchange program organized jointly by Taiwan’s Ministry of Education (MOE) and the London-based British Council. “The program, known as ‘Connecting Classroom’ is aimed at promoting globalization of secondary education, ” said Liu [...]

Taipei, Nov. 28 (CNA) Taiwanese director Leon Dai was named winner of the best director award in the 2009 Golden Horse Festival, while his tear jerker film ” No Pudeo Visir Sin Ti” won the best film award in the film festival considered to be the Oscars of Chinese-language films Saturday. Dai was honored for [...]

Taipei, Nov. 30 (CNA) Taiwan’s Information Technology (IT) Month 2009, one of the country’s biggest computer and IT products trade shows, generated sales on the first two days that were up 20 percent year-on-year, organizers said. Vendors of consumer electronics and IT products said their sales during the first two days of the annual year-end [...]

A culture workshop sponsored by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) for young people from West Asian countries opened on Wednesday, providing them with an opportunity to gain a hands-on understanding of Taiwan. Lin Chin-chung, director-general of the MOFA’s West Asian Affairs Department, said the West Asian region remains largely unknown to Taiwan and vice [...]

A proposal by Next Media Interactive Limited to launch an animated Internet news channel was unlikely to receive approval because of its graphic violent content, the National Communications Commission said on Wednesday. Associations of teachers, women’s rights and children activists were planning to visit the Taiwan offices of the Hong Kong-invested media group Thursday to [...]

The Taipei City Government will set up eight “quit smoking” booths around the city designed to attract smokers, while providing them with information to help them give up the habit. The city’s Department of Health said the plan is aimed at providing outdoor smoking areas for smokers and creating more opportunities for smokers to access [...]

Singapore, Nov. 27 (CNA) Singapore’s largest Chinese-language newspaper on Friday praised Taiwan for fining Next Media Interactive Limited’s Taiwan branch for running violent motion graphics on its online news channel. An editorial published in Lianhe Zaobao said that because children and teenagers are the main recipients and viewers of new media, the violent images of [...]

Taipei, Nov. 27 (CNA) Investigators announced Friday that they have busted a credit card counterfeiting ring after arresting five suspects and seizing 566 fake cards in a raid in Taipei County. The ring was found to have made NT$100 million in illicit gains by buying a sizable volume of computer, communication and consumer electronic products [...]

Up to 70 percent of parents in a recent survey said they would like the government to create more “English village” language-learning facilities. “English villages” offer simulated environments such as restaurants and airplane cabins to allow English learners to use the language in a variety of “real-life” situations.Such villages have been created by some local [...]

Hundreds of Tainan County fishermen staged a demonstration outside the Council of Agriculture (COA) to protest a decision allowing pair trawlers in waters along the county’s coastline, saying that it threatens fish stocks in the area. Pair trawlers are large fishing boats that drag trawl nets under the water as they move forward. To prevent [...]