Awa Odori Festival in Tokushima – Japan
Every August in Japan, over a million people flock to Tokushima Prefecture to experience the Awa Odori Festival. The main avenues of Tokushima City are cordoned off as teams of locals take to the...
Taiwanese students bag 4 medals at informatics Olympiad
Taiwan's delegation to the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI), an annual computer programming competition for high school students, has won one gold medal and three silver medals. Hosted for the second year by the National...
Congressman Soto honors Central Florida APIA Community Leaders
Orange County is home to some of Florida’s largest and most robust Asian American communities, with this diversity comes a large spectrum of cultural richness, community development and leadership. For this reason Congressman Darren...
Just keep paddling: C.H.A.R.G.E. Dragon Boat Team Celebrating 11th Year
C.H.A.R.G.E. Dragon Boat Team is the Orlando-based Dragon Boat Club organized by the Chinese American Association of Central Florida (CAACF) 中佛州中美協會 in June 2010. C.H.A.R.G.E. now has 25 committed paddlers and around 14 seasonal...
AsiaTrend Wishes farewell to TECO in Miami Director General David Chien
AsiaTrend would like to recognize and wish farewell to our long standing supporter and friend David K.C Chien who served as the Director-General of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office (TECO) in Miami for the...
APAHM – Community Member Spotlight: Megan Cruz
May is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month and AsiaTrend would like to use this time period to highlight some local inspirations from our community in Central Florida. Roughly 6% of people in Orange County...
Taiwan, Philippines launch agricultural internship program
An agricultural internship program between Taiwan and the Philippines formally kicked off Thursday, with 50 Filipino farmers expected to be sent to Taiwan for one year after completing a basic Mandarin language course. "The internship...
Taiwan’s Indonesian community celebrates Kartini Day in Taipei
Taiwan's Indonesian community paid tribute to one of its national heroines who fought for women's equality, Raden Ajeng Kartini, by organizing cultural activities and a children's parade in Taipei on April 11. Hundreds of people,...
OCAC Nomination for the Distinguished Asian American Award 2021
Each year, the Orange County Asian Committee awards a member of the Central Florida community with the Distinguished Asian American Award (DAA Award). The Distinguished Asian American award is presented to an outstanding individual...
Vigil in UCF to Honor Those Killed in Atlanta, Speak Out Against Anti-Asian Hate
On March 23, over two hundred people joined a vigil was held at the University of Central Florida to honor those who have killed in the Atlanta spa shootings. window.fbAsyncInit = function() {
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