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5 unusual facts about TAIWAN


Asian Pacific League for Freedom and Democracy

Attending the Conference were the representatives of Australia, Republic of China (Taiwan), Guam, India, Indonesia, Japan, Jordan, Korea, Laos, Palau, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Turkey, Vietnam.

C. Y. Lee

Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport-Terminal 2, Taoyuan,Buddhist temple in the world since 2001, and the tallest Buddhist Building in the world from 2001 to 2006.

Front Mission

The People's Republic of Da Han Zhong (DHZ) is formed from the presumably peaceful reunification of China and Taiwan.

Regent International Hotels

It is also the owner of Grand Formosa Regent Taipei hotel, Taipei, Taiwan, which was opened by Regent’s founders in 1990 as 'The Regent Taipei'.

Taiwanese Cultural Association

The Taiwanese Cultural Association (台灣文化協會 pinyin tai2wan1 wen2hua4 xie2hui4), (abbr. TCA) founded 1921-10-17, was an important organization during the Japanese rule of Taiwan.


½ Prince

The series is written by Yu Wo and was published by Ming Significant Cultural in Taiwan between October 4, 2004 and August 15, 2005.

Alyssa Chia

Chia dropped out of Beijing Film Academy because the company in Taiwan called her back and she had a great attachment to her family.

Andō Teibi

Work also began on the development of Taiwan's forest resources on Taiping and Pa-hsien Mountains, as well as construction on the Yilan and Pingtung railway lines.

Cheyletiella

Cheyletiella strandtmanni Smiley, 1970 — infests hares (Lepus spp.), Taiwan

China Airlines Flight 358

China Airlines Flight 358 was a Boeing 747-2R7F freighter plane that crashed on December 29, 1991 shortly after takeoff from Chiang Kai-shek International Airport in Taipei, Taiwan.

Chung Hsing New Village

Taipei, capital of the Republic of China (Taiwan), was also the capital of Taiwan Province until 1956.

Cybersectarianism

Transnational Chinese cybersects include the group commonly known in the West as Falun Gong (法轮功), Zhong Gong (中华养生益智功), and the Taiwan-based group founded by Suma Ching Hai, commonly referred to in the PRC as Guanyin Famen (观音法门), but rendered in English by the Ching Hai World Society as Quan Yin.

Dongning

Kingdom of Tungning, Han Chinese government which ruled Taiwan, between 1661 and 1683

Edith Pfau

Pfau's education ministry included eleven years teaching at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College, eleven years at Immaculata Junior College in Washington, D.C., and ten years at Providence University in Shalu, Taichung, Taiwan.

Felix Chen

He is also sometimes invited to give guest performances with the National Symphony Orchestra and the National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra.

Gordon Shi-Wen Chin

Gordon Shi-Wen Chin, 金希文, a Taiwanese composer and conductor, is a member of the faculty of National Taiwan Normal University.

Gray's paradox

In 2009, researchers from the National Chung Hsing University in Taiwan introduced new concepts of “kidnapped airfoils” and “circulating horsepower” to explain the swimming capabilities of the swordfish.

Green World Ecological Farm

:Home to over one hundred species of birds, including: Macaw, Bird of Paradise, Great Curassow, Blue-crowned Pigeon, Green Touraco, Channel-Billed Toucan, Toco Toucan, Golden Pheasant, Vulturine Guineafowl, Wood Duck, Emerald Dove, Violet Turaco, Asian Fairy Bluebird, Red-and-yellow Barbet, Taiwan Sibia, Finch-billed Bulbul and Eclectus Parrot.

Hardware certification

Big established enterprises like Cisco, Novell, Sun Microsystems etc., no longer manufacture all the hardware required in the market, instead they ‘license’ or ‘certify’ small hardware players operating out from countries like Taiwan or China.

ICLP

The International Chinese Language Program (ICLP), an institute for Chinese language instruction located in Taiwan.

James Fei

James Cheng Ting Fei (Chinese name: ; pinyin: Fèi Zhèngtíng; b. Taipei, Taiwan, 1974) is a composer and performer working in the fields of contemporary classical music and electronic music.

Jeff Yang

Yang is also known for his books, including Once Upon a Time in China: A Guide to the Cinemas of Hong Kong, Taiwan and Mainland China, I Am Jackie Chan: My Life in Action (with Jackie Chan), Eastern Standard Time: A Guide to Asian Influence in American Culture, from Astro Boy to Zen Buddhism, and Secret Identities: The Asian American Superhero Anthology.

Jhongli Station

Jhongli Station (Yilan County):A railway station along Taiwan Railway Administration Yilan Line.

Jiang Yi-huah

Commenting on Taiwan's 2013 global competitiveness ranking decline by the International Institute for Management Development in end of May 2013, Jiang ask all of the government sectors to make improvements and address the relevant problems.

Joseph Wu

He served as a teacher and research assistant in the political science department of Ohio State University in the United States, and as deputy director of the Institute of International Relations of National Chengchi University in Taiwan.

Kaohsiung Science Park

The Kaohsiung Science Park, also known as Luzhu Science Park, is located in Luzhu District in Kaohsiung City, Taiwan.

Luodong Bo-ai Hospital

Luodong Bo-ai Hospital (also spelled Bo'ai) (Chinese: 羅東博愛醫院) is in Luodong Yilan County Taiwan.

Michael Wynne

Secretary of Defense Robert Gates asked for and received his resignation (and that of Chief of Staff T. Michael Moseley) on June 5, 2008, in the wake of the 2007 United States Air Force nuclear weapons incident and the mistaken shipment of Minuteman III parts to Taiwan in 2006, followed by an investigation by and a critical report from Admiral Kirkland H. Donald regarding the Minuteman incident.

Penbay International Circuit

Irish driver Gary Thompson helped officially open Taiwan's all-new circuit by driving a Minardi F1 two seater race car around the track.

Philippe Rondot

The second Clearstream affair is an episode of the enquiry regarding the selling of Lafayette class frigates to Taiwan by Thomson, then directed by Alain Gomez.

Policy of deliberate ambiguity

1992 consensus: the governments of mainland China (headquartered in Beijing) and Taiwan (in Taipei) formed a consensus in 1992 that both sides recognize that there is one China, but remain ambiguous on the content of that concept, such as whether China here means Republic of China or People's Republic of China.

Polygonia c-aureum

The Asian Comma (Polygonia c-aureum) is a middle-size butterfly found in Japan (from Hokkaidō to Tanegashima), Korean Peninsula, China, Taiwan, and Indochina.

Polyvinylidene fluoride

These PVDF paints have extremely good gloss and color retention, and they are in use on many prominent buildings around the world, e.g. the Petronas Towers in Malaysia and Taipei 101 in Taiwan, as well as on commercial and residential metal roofing.

Reallusion

Headquartered in Silicon Valley, with R&D centers in Taiwan, and offices and training centers in Germany and Japan.

Renai Road

Renai Road (仁愛路, also called 3rd Blvd) is a major arterial road in Taipei, Taiwan, connecting the Xinyi District in the east with the Daan and Zhongzheng districts towards the west.

Rhythm and Hues Studios

By the time Rhythm & Hues began to work on the 2012 Ang Lee film, Life of Pi, the company had become a global one with offices and artists in India (the Mumbai suburb of Malad and HITEC City which is a part of Hyderabad), Malaysia (Cyberjaya just outside of Kuala Lumpur), Canada (Vancouver), and Taiwan (Kaohsiung).

SET International

SET International is a satellite cable channel operated by Sanlih E-Television in Taiwan, launched on March 2000, but only broadcasts abroad.

Small-eyed whiting

The species is known from only two specimens; the holotype collected by Roland McKay in 1985 from a Taipei market, both specimens of which were taken from the waters of Taiwan.

Starcom IP Asia

Starcom IP Asia consists of 17 countries and 29 offices, with locations in Australia (Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, Gold Coast, Brisbane) Bangalore, Bangladesh, China (Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Hong Kong), India (New Delhi, Chennai, Mumbai), Indonesia, Japan, Kazakhstan, Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand (Auckland, Wellington), Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Taiwan and Vietnam.

Tai Ping Shan

Taiping Mountain, which is a mountain in Ilan, Taiwan, Republic of China

Tainan Wu Garden

Wu Garden (吳園), known at the time of its creation as "Purple Spring Garden (紫春園)," is located in Zhongxi District, Tainan, Taiwan (once part of Tainan (府城)'s Pang-kiô-thâu (枋橋頭) area).

Taiwan Daily

Taiwan Daily was founded on October 25, 1964, as Oriental Daily (東方日報), in Keelung.

Taiwan saddled carpetshark

The Taiwan saddled carpetshark, Cirrhoscyllium formosanum, is a carpetshark of the family Parascylliidae found around Taiwan, between latitudes 28°N and 21°N, at depths down to 110 m.

Taiwan Security Enhancement Act

Its proponents intended the proposed law to strengthen and update the Taiwan Relations Act, which was passed soon after the US ceased official relations with Taiwan, and instead recognized the People's Republic of China.

Taiwanese Hokkien

Apart from Yilan and Lugang, which still preserves the original Zhangzhou and Quanzhou accents respectively, every region of Taiwan speaks a variant of Hokkien based on a mixture of Quanzhou and Zhangzhou Hokkien.

Takasago Army

Takasago (Chinese: 高砂, Japanese: タカサゴ) is an ancient Japanese name for Taiwan.

Taoyuan County, Taiwan

Taoyuan County's easy commute to New Taipei and Taipei City causes it to be the most immigrated county in Taiwan.

Tea Research and Extension Station

The Taiwan Tea Research and Extension Station also known as TRES is the research and development center of Taiwan tea where scientists and tea masters conduct study, research and experiment to improve tea plantations, to develop new and better cultivars, to manufacture and educate the industry and consumers.

THSR Miaoli Station

The THSR Miaoli Station (高鐵苗栗站) is a planned station of the Taiwan High Speed Rail to be located in Houlong Township, Miaoli County, Taiwan.

THSR Yunlin Station

The THSR Yunlin Station (高鐵雲林站) is a planned station of the Taiwan High Speed Rail located in Huwei Township, Yunlin County, Taiwan.

TSE-1

The consortium includes Taiwan International Gateway Corporation, China Mobile, Chunghwa Telecom, Taiwan Mobile, Far EasTone Telecommunications, and China Unicom.

Walter Truett Anderson

He is on the editorial boards of several journals including The Journal of Humanistic Psychology, Futures: The Journal of Policy, Planning, and Futures Studies, The Journal of Futures Studies (Tamkang University, Taiwan), and Cadmus: The Journal of the South East Asian Division of the World Academy of Art and Science (Zagreb).

Xiaolin

Xiaolin, Kaohsiung (小林里), village in Jiaxian District, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Republic of China

阿里

Alishan Range (阿里山山脉), one of the five major mountain ranges of the island of Taiwan


see also

Aero Ae 270 Ibis

In 1997, Aero signed an agreement with AIDC of Taiwan to jointly manufacture and market the aircraft through Ibis Aerospace.

Amentotaxus formosana

Amentotaxus formosana is found only in Taiwan where it only occurs in four localities of cloud forest in the Hengchun Peninsula, in the extreme south of the island.

Annulohypoxylon archeri

archeri is commonly used in the cultivation of Tremella fuciformis - one of the foremost medicinal and culinary fungi of China and Taiwan.

Anthony Yuen

He served at the Broadcasting Corporation of China and Taiwan News in Taiwan, as well as several Chinese newspapers in the United States, before becoming editor in chief and current affairs anchor of the Chinese news channel Phoenix Television in 2001.

Aquabacterium fontiphilum

Aquabacterium fontiphilum is a gram-negative non-spore-forming, motile bacterium from the genus of Aquabacterium and the family of Comamonadaceae which was isolated from a water sample from the Nature Valley in Hsinchu County in Taiwan.

Automated Systems Holdings Limited

The ASL Group, consisting of Automated Systems (HK) Limited, ELM Computer Technologies Limited, CSA Automated (Macau) Ltd., Taiwan Automated Systems Ltd., Guangzhou Automated Systems Limited and ASL Automated (Thailand) Ltd., offers professional information technology services to corporate clients in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Macau, Mainland China and Thailand.

Barbara Tropp

Two years in Taiwan and a fortuitous stay with food obsessed host families led to her immersion in the intricacies of Chinese cuisine.

Chinese Brazilian

Ken Chang, a Brazilian actor of Chinese descent, popular TV series star in Taiwan and China.

Chinese Egret

It formerly bred in Taiwan and the New Territories of Hong Kong although it is now only a non-breeding visitor or passage migrant to these countries.

Cingshuei High School

Chingshuei High School is the only one high school in Chingshuei, Taichung county, Taiwan.

Dangerous Mind

In 2007, Huang He, won Best Leading Actor in a Television Series and Dangerous Mind was awarded Best Television Series at the 42nd Golden Bell Awards, Taiwan.

Dragon King

Chaotian Palace (朝天宮) of Beigang, Yunlin County in Taiwan, is devoted to the goddess Mazu, also has human-shaped statues for the four Dragon Kings, each riding on a dragon.

H. aspera

Hydrangea aspera, a shrub species native to the region between the Himalaya, across southern China to Taiwan

Harold Soref

On 30 September 1972, the Daily Telegraph remarked that "Mr. Harold Soref is nothing if not consistent", commenting that when an all-party delegation began a tour of Red China, he left defiantly for Taiwan.

Noémi Ban

After Earnest's death, Ban became a public Holocaust speaker, giving lectures nationally and internationally (in Hungary and Taipei, Taiwan).

Paiwan people

In 1871, an Okinawan vessel shipwrecked on the southern tip of Taiwan, and the crew of fifty-four were beheaded by the Paiwan aborigines.

Roan Ching-yueh

Roan Ching-Yueh (阮慶岳 born in 1958 in Taipei, Taiwan) is a Taiwanese architect, writer, curator and an Associate Professor of Department of Art Creativity and Development, Yuan Ze University.

Rogier van der Heide

Van der Heide joined the Arup practice in 2004, and subsequently worked on projects including Star Place in Taiwan and Galleria West in South Korea, both in collaboration with Ben van Berkel and the 2004 Architecture Biennale show in Venice in collaboration with Hani Rashid of Asymptote.

Silk Screen Asian American Film Festival

The Silk Screen Asian American Film Festival is a week long film festival founded in 2006 by filmmaker and artist Harish Saluja and held every May during Asian American Heritage Month in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to show mostly recent films and music by artists with Asian ethnic origins, such as from Japan, China, Taiwan, India, Indonesia, Korea, and the Philippines.

Small-eyed whiting

The only two recorded specimens of the small-eyed whiting were taken from a market in Taipei, Taiwan.

Taiwan–United States relations

and the first ever Direct Election of the Presidency of Republic of China in 1996 and President Lee Teng-hui's 1995 visit to Cornell University of the United States that incurred the Third Taiwan Strait Crisis and the US intervention by deploying two aircraft carrier battlegroups near Taiwan Strait amid missile tests by People's Liberation Army in the nearby coastal provinces of People's Republic of China.

Takatori Catholic Church

In the same year, the structure was donated to a Catholic community in Nantou County, Taiwan which had suffered the 921 Earthquake in 1999.

Thingumajig Theatre

Since then, they’ve worked together as makers, performers and directors for In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre, Islewilde Festival, Oregon Country Fair, Vancouver’s Public Dreams Society and Taiwan’s Dream Community.

VentureSoft

It was founded in 1998, and currently operates in Singapore, Malaysia, India, Australia, Brunei, China, Hong Kong, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Europe and the USA.

Wang Libin

In 1993, he moved to play for the Tera Electronics club in Taiwan and retired there after a decade-long "post-retirement" career as overseas professional player.

Zeti Akhtar Aziz

She was awarded alongside Philippines’ central bank governor Amando Tetangco, Jr. and Taiwan’s Central Bank Governor Perng Fai-nan, from a list of central bank governors of more than 50 key countries.