Taipei is banking on the appeal of local catering services, street snacks and vegetarian dishes to convince UNESCO that it warrants City of Gastronomy status.

The number of foreign nationals in Taiwan, not including mainland Chinese citizens, reached a record high of 648,000 at the end of 2011, up 56,000 from a year earlier, the Ministry of the Interior announced Feb. 4.

Eighty-three percent of those surveyed in two recent polls said corruption has decreased since ROC President Ma Ying-jeou took office in 2008, according to the Agency Against Corruption under the Ministry of Justice Feb. 4.

More than 40 comics artists from Taiwan and other East Asian nations, including Japan, mainland China and South Korea, will take part in the Planete Manga festival set to open Feb. 11 at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, France. Among the Taiwanese comics authors participating in the event will be Chiu Row-long, whose comics [...]

Many parts of Taiwan prepared for the arrival of the annual Lantern Festival by setting off fireworks and releasing floating lanterns into the sky during the Feb. 4-5 weekend.

Railway administrations in Taiwan and Hokkaido, Japan, are set to sign a letter of intent in March to promote tourism with old steam locomotives, Taiwan Railways Administration Director-General Frank Chih-ku Fan told local newspapers Feb. 5.

A cloud computing center to promote exchange of expertise, creative research applications and public-private cooperation is set to begin operations by the end of the month, according to the Cloud Computing Association in Taiwan Feb. 6.

Eighty-three percent of those surveyed in two recent polls said that corruption has decreased since ROC President Ma Ying-jeou took office in 2008, according to the Agency Against Corruption under the Ministry of Justice Feb. 4.

ROC Premier Sean C. Chen and his new Cabinet took office Feb. 6 with a clear mandate to tackle thorny issues such as the Taiwan-U.S. beef dispute, rising commodity prices and revitalization of the nation?s economy amid a period of global economic uncertainty.

Editors and publishers called on the government Feb. 3 to increase support for the training of literary translators in Taiwan and publication of their works.