Dutch animation director Erik-Jan de Boer, who won an Oscar earlier this year for his work on “Life of Pi,” has expressed a desire to visit Taiwan again, a place he said has friendly people and beautiful landscape.

Taiwan's annual Calla Lily Festival kicks off today with nearly 2 million calla lilies blossoming in Yangmingshan National Park, Taipei officials said yesterday.

A science television series that explores the workings of artists' brains while they perform will be premiered on a local TV later this month, the first in a series of film project between Taiwan and France.

Television is no longer mainly for “watching” but is trending toward something to which people “listen,” according to Google Inc., the U.S.-based search engine.

The head of retail at the Victoria and Albert (V&A) Museum in London — the world's largest museum of decorative arts and design — will visit Taiwan soon to share the museum's experience in developing and marketing exhibition merchandise, Taiwan's Culture Minister Lung Ying-tai said Wednesday.

Taiwanese director Ang Lee on Sunday won the 2013 Academy Award for best director for the 3D shipwreck epic “Life of Pi.”

President Ma Ying-jeou said yesterday that he is moved by Oscar-winning director Ang Lee's efforts to help catapult Taiwan into the international limelight through his achievements in filmmaking.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) yesterday made public a short film as part of its ongoing plan to promote awareness among Taiwanese nationals of the country's sovereignty claim over the disputed Diaoyutai Islands in the East China Sea.

The annual Taiwan Lantern Festival is scheduled to kick off in the northern county of Hsinchu (新竹縣) Feb. 24.

A Taiwanese book has won an award in a beautiful book competition in Germany and will be showcased at the Leipzig Book Fair in that country, the Taipei Book Fair Foundation said.