A great place to study
With his beautiful singing voice and friendly, unpretentious manner, Quang Vinh was swarmed by fans when he visited Minghsin University of Science and Technology. Students and faculty from Vietnam couldn’t believe that they were seeing a star from back home at their university campus in Taiwan. They jockeyed for position to get a photo or selfie with him. “Seeing so many Vietnamese who have studied in Taiwan and then stayed on to make successes of themselves, I felt honored myself,” he says.
Minghsin has more than 1200 students from Southeast Asia, and the university’s president, Lin Chii-ruey, believes that education has no borders. With these students willing to study hard and overcome language barriers, Minghsin has educated many outstanding and talented young people who possess great international mobility.
Taiwan’s successful and innovative research environment for semiconductors has attracted Indian students to study here, so the planners arranged for a group from Zee TV, India’s largest television station, to interview some Indian students enrolled in master’s and doctoral programs at Tsinghua University, including Manoj Kriplani, who works in tech. They also interviewed Mayur Srivastava, an Indian chef working in Taiwan. In their own words, they recommended Taiwan as an outstanding place for overseas study and employment.
Manoj Kriplani won a scholarship from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to study in Taiwan. Upon graduating, he immediately got a job at ASRock, a motherboard company. Now he is at Century Development Corporation, helping the Taiwan‡India Business Association open up the Indian market. Speaking in his native Hindi, Kriplani uttered high praise for Taiwan to the Indian filming team: “In 2019, InterNations, the world’s biggest Internet expat site, ranked Taiwan as the best place to live and work as an expat because Taiwan is safe, convenient, and relaxed. Moreover, the Nangang Software Park, where I work, is accessible by metro, regular rail and high-speed rail. What’s more, when I first arrived in Taiwan, the number of Bollywood dance clubs in Taiwan numbered in the single digits, whereas now there are more than 30. Indian restaurants have become quite common as well.”
The host of the famous show The Great Indian Global Kitchen, Shamoly Khera, is an out-and-out gourmet. When she tasted Sun Moon Lake black tea, she described it as fresh, clean and lively, and she also gave a thumbs up to the Ganquan Fish Noodles noodle shop chain, as well as the gua bao pork-belly buns of Nantou.
The team from Vietnam chose to capture the beauty of Taiwan by shooting amid fields of day lilies on 60 Stone Mountain. (courtesy of Creation Co.)