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70 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.

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.

2017 Summer Universiade

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

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.

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.

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.

Arthur Kleinman

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

Asbjørn Aavik

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

C. P. Wang

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

Candy Jones

:"This is Japan Airlines calling on oh-three July at 4.10 p.m. ... Please have Miss Grant call 759-9100 ... she is holding a reservation on Japan Airlines Flight 5, for the sixth of July, Kennedy to Tokyo, with an option on to Taipei. This is per Cynthia that we are calling".

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.

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 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.

China Airlines Flight 676

The plane took off from Ngurah Rai Int'l Airport, Bali, Indonesia en route to Chiang Kai-Shek Int'l Airport, Taipei, Taiwan with 182 passengers and 14 crew.

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.

Chung Hsing New Village

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Heping Road

Heping Road (和平東路/和平西路, also known as 1st Avenue) is a major east-west arterial in Taipei, Taiwan.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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.

Noémi Ban

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

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.).

Qing Shan King Sacrificial Ceremony

The Qing Shan King Sacrificial Ceremony is a festival held annually in Wanhua, Taipei, Taiwan.

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.

Ryuchi Matsuda

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Transportation in Taichung

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

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.

Welly Yang

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

Whitney Crothers Dilley

She presently lives and works in Taipei, Taiwan, as an associate professor in the Department of English at Shih Hsin University, Taiwan’s most prestigious media/film school.

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

The diplomatic relationship between Beijing and Taipei was dramatically softened during the 1980s.

Yenlin Ku

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

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.


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.

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).

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.

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.

Chen Guofu

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

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.

K. C. Wu

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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 forms a one-way couplet with Xinyi Road between Guangfu Road and Zhongshan Road, with Renai for westbound traffic and Xinyi for eastbound traffic.

Robert Chen

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

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

Wanli

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

Wugu

Wugu District, a district of New Taipei, 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.

Yu Kuo-hwa

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