Jingmei Elementary School of Taipei City earlier this week hosted six visiting foreign students who are studying at Wangfang Senior High School — an event that left both sides wanting to explore each other’s culture more.

The first ever UK-Taiwan International Networking for Young Scientist (INYS) Symposium on Infection and Immunity was held in Taipei earlier this week, marking an important milestone in the collaboration on science and health between Taiwan and the United Kingdom.

The rows of fixed lines and a mobile phone hotline never stop ringing as trained counselors alternately take calls from distressed women and children.

An organizer by nature and profession, Rachel Rosenthal Strisik’s impulse toward order hit full throttle when she learned she was pregnant with twins.

A group of students from Ouka Senior High School in Mie Prefecture, Japan paid a visit to Taipei Kai-Ping Culinary School earlier this week, for an event where students from both institutions could show off their cooking skills.

Forty-six exchange students from 17 countries earlier this week introduced their nations and customs in Mandarin Chinese to 1,400 elementary school children in Taipei City, helping the local students better understand different cultures and global diversity.

The Orphanage Club of the Taipei American School (TAS) is holding its annual booksale today from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. in the lobby and entrance of the school.

The 21st Asian International Stamp Exhibition (Taipei 2008 Stamp Exhibition), slated for March 7-11 at the Taipei World Trade Center (TWTC), Hall Three, will bring hundreds of foreign postal officials and philatelists from 23 member countries of the Federation of Inter-Asia Philately (FIAP) to Taiwan, which is the host country for the annual event this year.

Taiwan Post, as event organizer of the 21st Asian International Stamp Exhibition, will issue a series of commemorative stamps under the exhibition’s theme of the “Ecological Beauty of Taiwan.”

The Federation of Inter-Asia Philately (FIAP), a non-profit and non-political philatelic organization, will hold an annual conference to discuss Asian postal and philatelic matters during the 21st Asian International Stamp Exhibition organized under its support and patronage.