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75 unusual facts about Taipei


1962 Asian Baseball Championship

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

2008 Asian Junior Women's Volleyball Championship

The 2008 Asian Junior Women's Volleyball Championship was held in Taipei, Republic of China from 20 September to 28 September 2008.

885 series

The 885 series has also been used as the basis for six new 8-car trains for use on the route between Taipei and Hualien in Taiwan.

ArcSoft

ArcSoft is headquartered in Fremont, California, with regional commercial and development facilities in Europe and Asia, specifically Taipei, Seoul, Tokyo, Shanghai, Hangzhou, and Nanjing.

Arthur Kleinman

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

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.

Chi-Huey Wong

Wong received his bachelor's and master's degrees in science from National Taiwan University in Taipei, Taiwan.

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.

China Airlines Flight 605

China Airlines Flight 605 (callsign "Dynasty 605") was a daily non-stop flight departing from Taipei at 6:30 a.m. and arriving at Kai Tak Airport in Hong Kong at 7:00 a.m. local time.

Ching-Yun Hu

The Festival hosts 16 masterclasses by the festival artists, the Yun-Hsiang Concerto Competition, four concerts of solo and concerto programs at the National Theater and Concert Hall, Taipei.

Choi Ji-Hyun

Choi won four distances and the overall classification at the 2010 World Junior Championships in Taipei.

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.

Datong District, Taipei

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

Daxi Station

Two side platforms: Platform 1 is for the clockwise route (順行) surrounding Taiwan Island (going south at this station such as Yilan, Hualien), while Platform 2 for the counterclockwise one (逆行) (going north such as Taipei, Keelung).

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.

Economy of Kazakhstan

Sherin Suzhikova, Counselor of Kazakhstan's Chamber of Commerce and Industry and Chao yon-chuan, Secretary-General of the Taiwan External Trade Development Council, signed an agreement on 13 October 2006 in Taipei to improve economic relations through "exchanges of market information and visits by trade professionals."

Far Eastern Air Transport Flight 103

The aircraft had previously lost cabin pressure on 5 August and also when the crew had been returning it to Taipei for repairs earlier on the day of its fatal flight.

Frances Adamson

Previous postings include Chief of Staff to Stephen Smith (2009–10), Deputy High Commissioner to the United Kingdom (2005–08), Representative to the Australian Commerce and Industry Office in Taipei (2000–05), the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (1998–2000), the Australian High Commission to the United Kingdom (1993–98) and in Hong Kong (1987–1991).

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.

Helga Jensine Waabenø

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

Hessam Nowzari

{nowzarisymposium.com} Nowzari is the founder of the Taipei Academy of Reconstructive Dentistry in Taiwan and one of only two American members of the Dnipropetrovsk State Academy of Medical Sciences in Ukraine.

Highschool Football League 2007

stadium= Ching Shui Senior High School, Taipei

Hualien City

Permanent settlements began in 1851, when 2,200 Han Chinese farmers led by Huang A-fong (黃阿鳳) from Taipei arrived at Fengchuan (now the area near Hualien Rear Station).

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.

IWAS World Games

The second IWAS Games were held in 2007 in Chinese Taipei and the third IWAS games were held in Bangalore, India in November 2009.

Jackie Stiles

She competed with USA Basketball as a member of the 2000 Jones Cup Team that won the Gold in Taipei.

Jade Y. Chen

Her 2004 bestselling novel Mazu's Bodyguards was adapted into a musical, presented at the National Theater in Taipei in December 2009.

Jeanne Quinn

She has exhibited widely, including the Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver; Robischon Gallery, Denver; Greenwich House, New York; Grimmerhus Museum, Denmark; Formargruppen Gallery, Malmö, Sweden; Sculpturens Hus, Stockholm, Sweden; and the Taipei County Yingge Ceramics Museum, Taipei, Taiwan.

Kabayama Sukenori

On 10 May 1895, he was promoted to full admiral and became the first Japanese Governor-General of Taiwan, being responsible for moving the seat of government to Taipei.

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.

Lee Seung-Min

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

Lena Fujii

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

Mami Kudo

Kudo also holds the Women's world record on track, a record she first set in Taipei, Taiwan in 2009 when she ran 254.425 km/158.126 miles.

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 Central University

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

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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The university owns four experimental forests located in New Taipei City, Nantou County, Taichung City, and Tainan City, respectively.

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.

National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center

The National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center (NSRRC) is a 1.5 GeV third-generation synchrotron, in the Hsinchu Science Park about 70 km from Taipei in Taiwan.

Noémi Ban

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

Paul Waley

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

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.

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.

Saudia Roundtree

She competed with USA Basketball as a member of the 1995 Jones Cup Team that won the Bronze in Taipei.

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.

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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.

Stake: Fortune Fighters

Stake: Fortune Fighters was developed by Gameness Art Software and published by Metro3D, Inc. Stake is the first game created by Gameness Art, which was founded by the game's producer Owen Wu in Taipei, Taiwan in August 2000.

StrayDog: Kerberos Panzer Cops

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

Taipei Joint Bus System

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

Taiwan Lantern Festival

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

Taoyuan City

Taoyuan is the gateway of Taiwan: with the Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport in the vicinity, and is a 30-minute ride to the capital, Taipei.

Taoyuan County, Taiwan

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

Tibbo BASIC

It is developed and distributed by Tibbo Technology Inc., a leading manufacturer of programmable Ethernet converters and controllers in Taipei, Taiwan.

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.

Wataru Ishijima

He then worked at the Institute of Geology, Taihoku Imperial University (Taipei) during 1942–1945 and then at the Rikkyo University (Tokyo) from 1945–1980.

Welly Yang

His mother returned to Taipei in 1991 to direct foreign affairs for the Democratic Progressive Party.

Xinyi District

The Xinyi District (meaning "honesty") is the seat of the Taipei mayor's office and the Taipei City Government.

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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.

Yenlin Ku

She is a teacher at the Graduate Institute for Gender Studies and an adviser to Taipei City Government.

Yu Kuo-hwa

He died from complications from leukemia at 4pm on 4 October 2000 at the Veterans' General Hospital in Taipei.

Zhongshan Metro Mall

The Zhongshan Metro Shopping Mall (中山地下街) is an extensive underground shopping mall in Zhongshan District and Datong District, Taipei, Taiwan.


1986 FIFA World Cup qualification

Oceania (OFC): 0.5 place, contested by 4 teams (including Israel and Chinese Taipei).

2017 Summer Universiade

The 2017 Summer Universiade, the XXIX Summer Universiade, is scheduled for Taipei, Taiwan.

Arne Dørumsgaard

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Hsieh Yu-hsing

In the men's team competition round of 16, he had helped Chinese Taipei to get the first point 1-0 by winning India's youngster Arvind Bhat with rubber games 28-26 15-21 21-13 and later Chinese Taipei team got 3-1 win in the round of 16 and had clashed into the last eight competition against Indonesian team.

Institute for Information Industry

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

Jian-Shan Junior High School

Jian-Shan Junior High School (尖山國民中學) is located in Yingge District, New Taipei City, Republic of China (Taiwan), a small suburb of the capital Taipei.

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.

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.

Lin Farley

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

Little Taipei

Starting with "Little Taipei", the San Gabriel Valley has emerged as Southern California's publishing center for Chinese language newspapers including the Los Angeles editions of World Journal, Taiwan Daily, Sing Tao, International Daily News, The Epoch Times, China Daily, The China Press, and Xin Min Evening News.

Michio Mado

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

New Taipei Municipal Lin-kou High School

New Taipei Municipal Lin-kou Senior High School (LKSH; Chinese: 新北市立林口高級中學), previously National Linkou High School (國立林口高級中學), is a high school in Linkou District, New Taipei City, Taiwan.

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.

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.

Ryuchi Matsuda

A Historical Outline of Chinese Martial Arts was originally written in 1979 and later revised when Matsuda lived in Taipei.

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.

ST-1

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

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.

Transportation in Taichung

The last trains in the early morning depart at 2:37 am and 2:46 am for Pingdong and Taipei respectively.

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.

Yongchun

Yongchun Station, station on the Nangang Line of the Taipei Rapid Transit System, Taiwan

Zhongshan Soccer Stadium

On September 30, 2007, Taipei City Mayor Hau Lung-pin committed to delay the stadium's closing schedule to the end of 2008 for hosting 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification and 2008 AFC Challenge Cup qualifiers.