Taipei, Feb. 13 (CNA) A young translator will be translating a collection of prose essays titled Watching-Go by Taiwanese author Lung Ying-tai (龍應台) into English from Chinese with the support of the American Literary Translators Association's (ALTA) mentorship program.
Hon Hai Precision Industry Co (鴻海精密) is to put environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) considerations into each employee’s key performance indicators, Hon Hai chairman Young Liu (劉揚偉) said at a forum for sustainable finance and climate change yesterday.
In addition, the company would earmark 1 percent of its research and development budget to ESG initiatives, Liu said.
Hon Hai’s research and development budget is about NT$200 billion (US$7.2 billion) annually, meaning the ESG budget would be about NT$2 billion per year.
ESG would be an integral part of Hon Hai’s strategy going forward, Liu said, adding that climate change is the most
In its 27-year history, the Embassy Series has hosted over 600 concerts at nearly 80 partner embassies, and at the University Club of Washington. This gives host countries a chance to showcase their music and culture in the United States; audience members are invited to dine and interact with featured artists following their performances.
The third edition of the California-based Taiwan Biennial Film Festival started this week with the theatrical premiere of one of this year’s most successful Taiwanese films, leading the lineup of more than 20 feature films and shorts to be shown until Friday.
Headlining the festival is director Yin Chen-hao’s (殷振豪) <i>Man in Love</i> (當男人戀愛時), which debuted in the US at Hollywood’s TCL Chinese Theater on Wednesday, attended by film critics, the festival’s organizers and sponsors, as well as film enthusiasts.
The 10-day festival, themed “Breadth of Life,” also showcases the feature-length and short films on the Watchbeem online platform, which sponsors the
Los Angeles, Nov. 4 (CNA) The third Taiwan Biennial Film Festival (TBFF) in the United States kicked off this week with a theatrical premiere in Hollywood, leading a lineup of 19 Taiwanese films and shorts that will be shown until Nov. 12.