In a move to contribute to global wildlife conservation, Taiwan has again donated funds to Bird Life International (BLI) , a London-based organization working to protect the world's birds.

The Taipei-based Mexican Trade Services Documentation and Cultural Office held a charity event Tuesday to mark the opening of its new office in which 26 paintings donated by Mexican children were displayed to raise money for Taiwanese children affected by Typhoon Morakot, which devastated southern Taiwan in August.

Ministry of Education (MOE) officials are leading a group of school representatives on a visit to the United Kingdom as part of the preparations for an education white paper that is scheduled for release early next year, a ministry official said Wednesday.

The Czech Economic and Cultural Office (CECO) celebrated the Czech National Day at a hotel in Taipei yesterday.

Taiwan will donate 500,000 doses of influenza A(H1N1) vaccine to needy countries, through the World Health Organization (WHO) , Department of Health Minister Yaung Chih-liang said Monday.

Taiwan's government-operated International Cooperation and Development Fund (ICDF) will dispatch a mobile medical team to Chiang Rai, the northernmost province of Thailand, on Monday to provide local people with medical services and humanitarian care.

Former New York Yankees manager Carl Stump Merrill will visit Taiwan's Kaohsiung City and Taitung County from this weekend to share his baseball experience and to coach local school teams, according to the Kaohsiung branch of the American Institute in Taiwan (AIT).

Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, German Chancellor Angela Merkel called Nov. 9 the “most joyful day in German history,” during celebrations held in the German capital on Monday.

World leaders joined thousands of people on Nov. 9 to mark the 20 anniversary of the Berlin Wall's fall, an event that paved the way for the unification of Germany, the end of the Cold War and the birth of an undivided Europe — one without any separating strips.

Christiane Bonneville, wife of the current director of the French Institute in Taipei, is an Asian culture enthusiast who fell in love with Taiwan over a year ago.