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61 unusual facts about Taipei


1962 Asian Baseball Championship

Chinese Taipei (2nd), South Korea (3rd) and Philippines (4th) were the other participants.

1969 Asian Baseball Championship

Chinese Taipei (2nd) and South Korea (4th) were the other participants.

Alyssa Chia

In August, 2010, the local court in Taipei made the decision that Chia and Sun had joint custody of their daughter and Sun was the main guardian.

Arthur Huang

Arthur Huang (黃謙智) is the Co-Founder and Managing Director of MINIWIZ, a Taipei-based company dedicated to upcycling trash to create versatile, high performance, and ultra-low carbon materials suitable for uses ranging from buildings to consumer products.

Asbjørn Aavik

His work consisted partly in teaching at a Bible school at Kaohsiung and at the Lutheran Theological Seminary in Taipei and Taichung.

Brother Elephants

The Brother Elephants team has worn yellow uniforms throughout its history, and makes New Taipei its home city, with a training field in Longtan Township, Taoyuan County.

C. P. Wang

Taipei 101, Taipei, Taiwan's tallest building since 2004, and the tallest skyscraper in the world from 2004 to 2009.

Cerruti 1881

There are Cerruti 1881, 18CRR81 and Cerruti stores throughout the world in Milan, Cosenza, Madrid, London, Munich, Stockholm, Athens, Birmingham, Riyadh, Moscow, New York, Hong Kong, Taipei, Damascus, Jakarta, and Tokyo among other locations.

Chien Shih-Liang

In 1949, Chien went to Taipei, and was recruited professor of chemistry and the provost of the National Taiwan University, by its then-president Fu Sinian.

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.

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The crew lost control of the airplane and it struck a hill, right wing first, near Wanli, Taipei.

Civic Blvd Expressway

Keelung Road - ramps to surface arterial (to Xinyi and Songshan) & direct-flyover ramps to MacAuthur bridges (to Neihu)

Dasi, Taoyuan

Due to its strategic location and the investments made by the Lin clan, Takoham became the center of trading and transportation between Taipei and the south.

Datong District, Taipei

Taipei's commercial center has since shifted south east to Zhongzheng, Daan and Xinyi, and Datong is far less important economically.

Eastern District of Taipei

In general, however, the Eastern District refers to the area between Civic Boulevard and XinYi Road, including most part of Daan District, Xinyi District and Songshan District, the administrative districts in eastern Taipei.

Foreign relations of Burma

There are direct air flights to Taipei, as there are to some major cities in the People's Republic of China, including Kunming, Guangzhou and Hong Kong.

Galo Canote

As an artist, some of the cities or countries he has exhibited in are: Mexico, Japan, Taiwan and Taipei.

Groove zone

They talk about everything from ancient Chinese ceremonies, to the overzealous gamers in the Taipei internet cafes.

Harry E. T. Thayer

He entered the State Department's service in 1956, and until 1971 worked in Hongkong, Taipei, and China.

Helga Jensine Waabenø

She obtained permission to work at a large Mission hospital in Taipei, which is now known as the Mackay Memorial Hospital.

Highschool Football League 2007

stadium= Ching Shui Senior High School, Taipei

Huang Chunming

Born in Ilan, Taiwan, Huang began his higher education career at a college in Taipei but, after a series of transfers, ended up graduating from National Pingtung University of Education in southern Taiwan.

Hukou Incident

He was reported as saying "Our leader is being deceived by treacherous people, we must move our forces to Taipei to remove them." ("當今主上為小人所蒙敝,我們要把部隊開到台北勤王清君側") He was promptly arrested by two political warfare officers, but the army nonetheless received erroneous information that the 1st Armor Division was on the move, and had deployed troops to intercept the "rebels forces" that did not exist.

I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change

A Mandarin Chinese version debuted in Beijing, China, on June 20, 2007, and it had been also reproduced by LANCreators, Taiwan's only group producing Broadway musicals, and performed, in English, at the Crown Theatre, Taipei, from November 3, 2007.

Intel Developer Forum

To emphasize the importance of China, the Spring 2007 IDF was held in Beijing instead of San Francisco, and that San Francisco and Taipei will share the Fall IDF event in September and October, respectively.

Jock McKeen

and taught a 20-day seminar entitled "Harmony: East-West Integration" in Taipei, Taiwan, and Beijing, China.

Kunqu

Today, Kunqu is performed professionally in seven Mainland Chinese major cities: Beijing (Northern Kunqu Theatre), Shanghai (Shanghai Kunqu Theatre), Suzhou (Suzhou Kunqu Theatre), Nanjing (Jiangsu Province Kunqu Theatre), Chenzhou (Hunan Kunqu Theatre), Yongjia County/Wenzhou (Yongjia Kunqu Theatre) and Hangzhou (Zhejiang Province Kunqu Theatre), as well as in Taipei.

Lautaro Bellucca

In mid-summer 2011, accompanying Musa and Adriano, LuKa moved to Taipei to join Project SENSATION with the Malaysian Chinese vocalist Gary Chaw and Taiwanese compose-producer Michael Tu.

Lena Fujii

On July 11, 2009, Fujii held her first live concert at Luxy, a nightclub in Taipei, Taiwan.

Li Hsi-mou

In 1953, Li went to Taipei, Taiwan, and became the president of Taiwan (Provincial) Museum.

Lothar Ledderose

After graduating from the prestigious Apostelgymnasium of Cologne he studied East-Asian as well as European History of Art, Sinology and Japanology at the universities of Cologne, Bonn, Paris, Taipei and Heidelberg.

Lukang, Changhua

Lukang was Taiwan's second largest city after current Tainan and was larger than Bangka (now a district of Taipei), then the island's third-largest city.

Mandarin Daily News Language Center

The Mandarin Daily News Language Center is a Chinese language school for native English speakers in Taipei, Taiwan.

Mark Caltonhill

His English-language book "Private Prayers and Public Parades - Exploring the Religious Life of Taipei" was published in 2002 by the Department of Information, Taipei City Government.

Mark Mobius

Before joining Templeton, Mobius worked at international securities firm Vickers-da-Costa, and later was president of International Investment Trust Company in Taipei, Taiwan.

Miss Kicki

But her hidden agenda is that Taipei is also the home of the Taiwanese businessman (Eric Tsang) with whom she has been conducting an Internet romance.

MUSA's

From December 2011 to early January in 2012, Gary Chaw, with MUSA's Trio and Michael Tu, presented the Gary Chaw SENSATION x JAZZ concerts in Taipei, Kaohsiung and Taichung.

Nagoya Airfield

On April 26, 1994, an Airbus Airbus A300B4-622R jet operating as China Airlines Flight 140 (B-1816) from Taipei to Nagoya crashed onto the south-east corner of the airport apron whilst trying to land on Runway 34, killing 264 of the 271 people on board.

National Chung Hsing University

It began as the Advanced Academy of Agronomy and Forestry, founded by the Japanese in Taipei in 1919.

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After 1928, the academy became a special department affiliated to Taihoku Imperial University (now National Taiwan University).

Pan-Blue Coalition

The popular Taipei mayor Ma Ying-jeou was also elected the new head of the Kuomintang, and was considered the leading contender for the KMT nomination in the 2008 presidential election.

Paul Waley

His articles also expand into other geographical areas, such as the periphery of Tokyo, Taipei and the Balkans.

Prime Blue Pure Malt Scotch Whisky

Prominent in Taipei, the ‘Prime Blue Bar’ can be found in the famous bar area of An-ho Rd.

Small-eyed whiting

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

Sodium cyclamate

In Taipei, Taiwan, a city health survey in 2010 found nearly 30% of tested dried fruit products failed a health standards test, most having excessive amounts of cyclamate, some at levels 20 times higher than the legal limit.

ST-1

The two companies jointly operate the spacecraft from control centres located in Seletar, Singapore and Taipei, Taiwan, respectively.

StrayDog: Kerberos Panzer Cops

His contact from the mysterious Fugitive Support Group reported that Koichi Todome was exiled in Taipei, Taiwan.

Taipei Grand Prix

The Taipei Grand Prix, ATP Taipei in its final year, was a men's tennis tournament played in Taipei, Taiwan.

Taipei WEGO Private Senior High School

Taipei WEGO Private Senior High School (Chinese: 臺北市私立薇閣高級中學) is a private senior high school which located at Beitou, Taipei, Taiwan.

Taiwan Lantern Festival

Earlier times, the event was held in Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Park in Taipei.

Tatung Einstein

The Einstein was released in the United Kingdom in the summer of 1984, and 5,000 were exported back to Taipei later that year.

Time-Division Long-Term Evolution

In Taiwan, China Mobile built a TD-LTE network in Taipei, for testing purposes for the local GSM operator Far EasTone, .

Transport in Macau

It was inaugurated on December 1995 and has since established a number of regulars flights between Macau and major cities in Northeast and Southeast Asia, for example Bangkok, Beijing, Kaohsiung, Kuala Lumpur, Manila, Osaka, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore, Taipei, etc.

Transportation in Taichung

Whereas one might have gotten used to boarding buses via the rear door in Taipei, rear doors on Taichung buses, if any, are firmly sealed.

Transportation in the Philippines

After offering low fares to domestic destinations, Cebu Pacific launched its international operations on November 2001 and now flies to Bangkok, Busan, Guangzhou, Ho Chi Minh City, Hong Kong, Jakarta, Kota Kinabalu, Kuala Lumpur, Macau, Osaka, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore and Taipei.

Tsang Tak-sing

On 30 March 2009 Tsang made a historical visit to Taipei.

United Commercial Bank

It had operations and branches located in the San Francisco Bay Area, Sacramento, Stockton, Los Angeles and Orange Counties, New York, Boston, Greater Seattle Area, Hong Kong, Atlanta, Houston, Shanghai and two representative branches in Taipei, Taiwan and Shenzhen, China.

Xinyi District

The southern half became Xinyi District while the northern half retained Songshan District as its name.

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; from Wenshan District in the south by Baozijiang and Poneikeng Mountains; and from Daan District in the west by the Zhuangjing Tunnel, Keelung Road and Guangfu Road.

Xizhi District

Xizhi is located in the Keelung River valley between Taipei and Keelung, which is an important transportation corridor.

Y. T. Li

Li was an important person involved in the peace dialogue between Beijing and Taipei during the 1970s and 1980s.


2003 in Singapore

13 December – 10-year old Megan Zheng became the first Singaporean actress to win the Taipei Film Festival Golden Horse Award for Best New Performer (co-recipient) with her role in Jack Neo's movie Homerun.

2009 William Jones Cup

The 2009 William Jones Cup is the 31st tournament of the William Jones Cup that took place in Taipei from 12 July–26 July.

Arne Dørumsgaard

He was awarded the Bastian Prize in 1979, and was appointed honorary doctor of literature in Taipei in 1982.

Arthur Kleinman

This book has been translated and published in Chinese editions both in Shanghai and Taipei.

Assassination of Benigno Aquino, Jr.

Prior to his departure from Taipei, Aquino gave an interview from his hotel room in which he indicated that he would be wearing a bulletproof vest.

Basay language

Basay data is mostly available from Erin Asai's 1936 field notes, which were collected from an elderly Basay speaker in Shinshe, Taipei, as well as another one in Yilan who spoken the Trobiawan dialect (Li 1999).

Chang Han

During the 2008 Summer Olympics qualifications, he was usually in the starting line-up in Chinese Taipei's 4–4–2 with Huang Wei-yi.

Chung Hsing New Village

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

Contest to kill 100 people using a sword

One of the swords allegedly used in the contest is on display at the Republic of China Armed Forces Museum in Taipei, Taiwan.

Cool Silly

In late 2010, Cool Silly was invited by the Taipei City government to write and produce a song to reflect the beauty and hope of Taipei City as the theme song of the heavily promoted Taipei City Mayor Hau Lung-pin's "MyWish" campaign.

Gate of Taipei

When the complex is complete, it will be the 2nd tallest building in Taipei and 3rd tallest in Taiwan after Taipei 101 and Kaohsiung's Tuntex Sky Tower.

Graff Diamonds

Graff has over 35 stores around the world including New York, Monte Carlo, Courchevel, Kiev, Beijing and Taipei; 2013 will see the opening of new stores including Abu Dhabi and Seoul.

Institute for Information Industry

III’s headquarters is conveniently located south of central Taipei, near the MRT Technology Building Station and Daan Forest Park.

Jiaoxi, Yilan

Another convenient way of transportation to/from Taipei and further to Yilan City is by bus route that passes through Snow Mountain Tunnel.

Jonathan Cohler

His concerto appearances include Mozart's Clarinet Concerto with the Santo Andre Orchestra in Brazil and Copland's Clarinet Concerto with the Evergreen Orchestra at the National Concert Hall of Taiwan in Taipei.

K. C. Wu

Following the relocation of the Nationalist government to Taipei, Wu served as Governor of Taiwan from 1949 to 1953.

Lee Seung-Min

Lee won gold in the bantamweight division at the 1990 Asian Taekwondo Championships in Taipei.

Lin Farley

She lived in Taipei for three years while writing for the English-language publication Free China Journal.

Lin Wang

Lin Wang was posthumously awarded "Honorary Taipei Citizen" by Taipei mayor Ma Ying-jeou.

Michio Mado

He graduated from the School of Industrial Instruction in Taipei and then worked for the Office of the Governor-General.

National Central University

The university's Taoyuan County campus is situated in the northern part of the island, about 45 minutes from Taipei.

National Revolutionary Martyrs' Shrine

Built on Chingshan Mountain and overseeing the Keelung River in Taipei's Zhongshan District in 1969, the Martyrs Shrine recalls the architecture of the Hall of Supreme Harmony in Beijing's Forbidden City.

Qidong Street Japanese Houses

Prior to the construction of the Taipei City Walls, one could travel from Mengjia (today's Wanhua District) past the East Gate area and along Qidong Street which joined Bade Road, leading to Songshan, Nangang, and eventually Keelung.

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.

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.

Shi Xin Hui

She even penned the lyrics for her album's no. 1 hit, 从台北到北京 / From Taipei To Beijing (which is a cover of popular Danish group, Infernal's "From Paris to Berlin").

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.

Soo K. Chan

He has taught in several international architectural schools including National University of Singapore, Syracuse University and has also lectured at Tamsui University, Taipei, University of Paris and Notre Dame University.

Szuyu Rachel Su

In 2006 she participated in the Taipei Arts Festival and was accepted by George Vatchnadze and Boris Slutsky, two masters guide; and by Gergely Boganyi Masters appreciation performed in master classes, sponsored by the Council for Cultural Affairs in 2007.

Taipei Joint Bus System

Example: 605 express (Sihjhi—Taipei Main Station) uses Huandong Boulevard and the National Freeway 1.

Taiwan Trade Shows

Taiwan Trade Shows (formerly known as "Taipei Trade Shows" before 2012) is a series of trade exhibitions organized by TAITRA in Taipei, Taiwan.

Tom Van Sant

These include the international airports of Honolulu, Taipei and Los Angeles, the civic centers of Los Angeles, Newport Beach and Inglewood, and corporate centers in Taiwan, Manila, Salt Lake City, Dallas, Honolulu and San Francisco.

Wanli

Wanli District, New Taipei (萬里區), a district in New Taipei City, Republic of China (Taiwan)

Ximending

In the beginning during Japanese rule, Ximending was an area of wilderness, through which there was a road connecting the west gate of Taipei to the town of Bangka.

Xinyi District

Buses to Xinyi District are also plentiful from all parts of Taipei, with a major bus terminal at Taipei City Hall Bus Station.