Myanmar, a nation with a labor force of around 60 million low-paid workers, is becoming a sort of “holy land” for global outsourcers. A host of international manufacturers are waiting for the country’s amended Foreign Investment Law to take effect to move into the nation.

Thailand is Myanmar’s second-largest trading partner, and over the past five years Thailand-based businesses have invested US$5.97 billion in Myanmar.

There is a saying in Myanmar: “Here there are only poor people, but no one is starving to death.” This is because Myanmar is rich in the products of nature.

A careful taste of the large, juicy and sweet Myanmar watermelons would reveal flavors that hardly differ at all from the world-famous watermelons of Taiwan.

In Taiwan, the notion of humanitarian architecture has just begun to take root through the efforts of Lawrence Chih-ming Chien and his group of volunteer professors and students.

On June 11, Germany’s several hundred McDonald’s McCaf'es began selling Taiwan’s much loved “boba,” an iced tea garnished with milk and tapioca “pearls.”

Religious charities from Taiwan are serving the people of South Africa.

TaiwanICDF has been implementing a host of reforms to its operations in the past few years, resulting in the first round of recruitment for volunteer service coordinators.

The Chinese Taipei Olympic Committee received an award July 23 for being one of the top three donors of clothing to the International Olympic Committee’s Giving is Winning campaign.

The Taiwan International Cooperation and Development Fun, Taiwan’s dedicated foreign aid agency, engages in technical cooperation, lending and investment, and humanitarian assistance operations.

Taiwan’s distant-water fishing industry got its start in the Japanese occupation era (1895–1945), and expanded rapidly in the 1950s.

They come from an island, and they spend more time aboard boats than on shore. Although they’re not fishermen, they carry the briny, fishy scent of the sea.

“Is the distant-water fishing industry running out of line?” In early May, Chiang Huang-chih, a professor of international law at National Taiwan University, wrote to the media calling on the government not to abandon this maritime goldmine.

Chiu Wen-ta, R.O.C. Minister of Health, introduces Taiwan’s National Health Insurance (NHI) program to officials from several countries at the 65th session of the World Health Assembly held in Geneva, Switzerland, May 21 to 26, 2012.

ROC President Ma Ying-jeou's plane made an unprecedented stopover in Mumbai, India, on April 8 for refuelling en route to Taiwan's diplomatic allies in Africa. Although the stopover was brief, the event reflected substantial progress in Taiwan-India relations.