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79 unusual facts about Taipei


1962 Asian Baseball Championship

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

1980 ARFU Asian Rugby Championship

The 1980 ARFU Asian Rugby Championship was the 7th edition of the tournament, and was played in Taipei

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.

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.

2010 Chinese anti-ballistic missile test

The test came just after an American official announced in Taipei that The Pentagon had just approved the sale of the MIM-104 Patriot missile system to Taiwan.

2017 Summer Universiade

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

Amanda Olivares

Amanda Beatriz Olivares Phillips (born circa 1966 in Puebla, Mexico) is a former Miss Mexico who represented her country in the 1988 Miss Universe pageant, held in Taipei, Taiwan on May 23, 1988 and obtained the second runner-up spot.

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.

Arne Dørumsgaard

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

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.

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.

Chen Guofu

He left for Taiwan in December 1948 and died there on August 25, 1951, in Taipei, Taiwan.

Cheng Kung Senior High School

Founded in 1922, the school was formerly called the Taihoku (Taipei during Japanese rule) Prefectural Second Middle School and then briefly called Taihoku Second Middle School.

Chi-Huey Wong

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

China Airlines Flight 006

China Airlines Flight 006 (callsign "Dynasty 006") was a daily non-stop flight departing from Taipei at 16:15 and scheduled to arrive at Los Angeles International Airport at 07:00 local time.

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.

Civic Blvd Expressway

The highway begins at the MacArthur Bridges in the east(connecting the Neihu district, and Keelung Road (in the Xinyi and Songshan districts), heads west to an interchange with the Zhongxiao Bridge and the Huanan Expressway, providing direct access to Taipei Main Station, which is just south of the Civic Blvd.

Expressway (also called 5th Blvd.市民大道) is a 4 to 6-lane highway located in Taipei, Taiwan.

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

Comair Flight 5191

On October 31, 2000, the crew of Singapore Airlines Flight 006 mistakenly used a closed runway for departure from Chiang Kai-shek International Airport, Taipei.

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).

Fu Hsing Kang College

The Political Warfare Cadres Academy (政治作戰學校), also known as Fu Hsing Kang College (復興崗, "Renaissance Hill"), is a military academy in Beitou District, Taipei, Republic of China.

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.

Highschool Football League 2007

stadium= Ching Shui Senior High School, Taipei

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Ketagalan Boulevard

On 21 March 1996, when Chen Shui-bian was the mayor of Taipei, Chieh-shou Road was renamed Ketagalan Boulevard and the surrounding square was renamed Ketagalan Square in honor of the Ketagalan Taiwanese aborigines originally living in the Taipei area.

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.

Li Hsi-mou

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

Lin Farley

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

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.

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.

Martin Musaubach

In the 3rd quarter of 2011, accompanied by LuKa and Gaofei, Musa moved to Taipei to join Gary Chaw Project SENSATION (the band, so as a music project) as the key pianist and composer with the Malaysian Chinese vocalist Gary Chaw and Taiwanese compose-producer Michael Tu.

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.

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

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).

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.

Peter Ritzen

In 2000 he was invited to be the artistic director of the International Piano Competition 'Theodor Leschetizky' in Taipei (Taiwan R.O.C.).

Saudia Roundtree

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

Shida, Taipei

Shida (師大) is a neighborhood of Taipei, located in Daan District and adjacent to the southern end of Yongkang Street.

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.

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.

Taipei Grand Prix

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

Taipei Joint Bus System

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

Upon the development and expansion of the Taipei Urban area, bus route ranges are gradually expanding from the downtown area, mainly the Taipei Main Station, towards the suburban areas of Taipei County.

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.

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.

The Story of Billy

The version released in Taiwan included an entry pass to "Will Pan Absolutely Yours Celebration Concert" (潘瑋柏「專屬於你」慶功演唱會) held on 13 October at Neo19 in Taipei.

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.

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.

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

; 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.

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.


2013 FIBA Asia Championship Group A

In a game that is colored by the killing of the Philippine Coast Guard to a Taiwanese fisherman at the waters near Batanes, and the subsequent withdrawal of invitation from the 2013 William Jones Cup by Taiwanese to the Philippines, which were defending champions, Chinese Taipei banked on Lu Cheng-ju and Lin Chih-chieh to defeat the Filipinos to win the group.

Asbjørn Aavik

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

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.

Boucheron

The distribution network of Boucheron is made of 34 shops located all over the world (Paris, Cannes, Saint-Tropez, Monaco, Beirut, London, San Francisco, Tokyo, Saitama, Yokohama, Fukuoka, Kyoto, Osaka, Hiroshima, Okayama, Nagoya, Taipei, Seoul, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, Dubai, Baku, Moscow and Almaty) and over 100 certified retailers.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Helga Jensine Waabenø

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

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.

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.

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.

K. C. Wu

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

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.

Linkou

Linkou Line, railway branch line, located in Taoyuan County and New Taipei

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.

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.

MUSA's

While the band members' origins are from different countries, currently they are all staying in Taipei, Taiwan, playing lives, producing self-own projects or collaborating with different musicians and vocalists as the leading band.

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.

Peppermoon

In early 2010, they toured in these countries for the first time, playing in Taipei, Shanghai, Beijing, Tokyo and Kyoto.

Robert Chen

Born in Taipei, Taiwan, Chen began studying the violin at the early age of seven.

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.

Tuan Tuan and Yuan Yuan

After elections that resulted in a change of presidents in 2008, Taipei accepted the pandas, and they arrived in Taiwan on December 23, 2008.

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.

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.