London, Dec. 5 (CNA) Chen Ching-min (陳靜敏), the head of the Taiwan Nurses Association (TWNA), was honored Monday as a new fellow of the nursing faculty at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI), becoming the first Taiwanese ever to receive the distinction.
London, July 15 (CNA) Trinity College has selected the poem, "Through Centenary Square," authored by Tēnn Sūn-tshong (鄭順聰) for their 2022 "Translation Slam" competition, with entrants asked to submit their English reinterpretations of the Taiwanese Hokkien work before Oct. 1.
Taiwan’s representative offices in Austria, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Poland have jointly produced a video calling for Taiwan’s participation in the annual World Health Assembly (WHA), which is to begin on Sunday.
In the video, members of the five representative offices can be seen holding banners reading “Taiwan can help” and “Taiwan is helping.”
International Ombudsman Institute secretary-general Werner Amon and Czech Senator Marek Hilser also appear in the video, saying that democracies should work together in the face of the war in Ukraine, the COVID-19 pandemic and global economic crises.
Former Hungarian lawmaker Bana Tibor in the video calls Taiwan
By Lu Yi-hsuan and William Hetherington / Staff reporter, with staff writerTaiwan’s representative offices in Austria, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Poland have jointly produced a video calling for Taiwan’s participation in the annual World Health Assembly （WHA）, which is to begin on Sunday.
Young Fine Gael (YFG), the youth wing of the Irish Fine Gael party, on Friday urged the Irish government to support Taiwan’s bid to obtain observer status at the WHO, adding that it was also drafting a statement regarding the party’s stance on Irish-Chinese relations.
The WHO, the US Centers for Disease Prevention and Control and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control have been instrumental in helping nations around the world obtain vaccines through the COVID-19 Vaccines Global Access program, YFG president Art O’Mahony said.
Global pandemics transcend national borders and affect everyone, and the WHO must include all countries