2021/02/24 12:32 Virus-free Taiwan aired on Feb. 23. (SVT screenshot) Virus-free Taiwan aired on Feb. 23. (SVT screenshot) TAIPEI (Taiwan News) Swedish television program “Foreign Offices,” which covers current international affairs, on Tuesday (Feb. 23) aired a special episode discussing Taiwan’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic. The episode, titled “Virus-free Taiwan,” analyzed why the East Asian nation has been able to maintain normality in an otherwise chaotic time and see growth in its economy, CNA reported. The program host noted that Taiwan, which has a population more than twice that of Sweden’s, has had fewer than 1,000 coronavirus infections and only nine deaths. Sweden, meanwhile, has had 63,000 confirmed cases and 13,000 deaths.
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UCLA to launch program for Taiwan studies in global context
02/23/2021 09:26 PM
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Los Angeles, Feb. 22 (CNA) The University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) recently announced receipt of a US$2 million donation from Taiwan s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA), some of which will be used to establish a program dedicated to the study of Taiwan in a global context.
Of the total US$2 million given to UCLA s Asia Pacific Center, US$800,000 will be used to create a program on Taiwan in the World, while the remaining US$1.2 million will go toward establishing an endowment fund to help permanently support the Taiwan Studies Program, the university said in a press release last week.
Taipei, Feb. 21 (CNA) The first of three flights that China Airlines (CAL) has arranged for Taiwanese nationals in Myanmar since the military of Myanmar intensified crackdown on protestors after it waged a successful coup on Feb. 1, took off for Yangon early Sunday morning.
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