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83 unusual facts about Taipei


1969 Asian Baseball Championship

Chinese Taipei (2nd) and South Korea (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

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.

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.

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.

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".

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.

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.

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.

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.

Choi Ji-Hyun

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

Civic Blvd Expressway

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

Datong District, Taipei

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

Democratic Pacific Union

The organization was established in Taipei, Republic of China on August 14, 2005, and former Vice President of the Republic of China, Annette Lu is its current chairperson.

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.

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.

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.

James Fei

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

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.

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.

Lee Seung-Min

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

Li Hsi-mou

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

Little Taipei

(Taipei is the capital city of Taiwan.) Today, the area includes less Mainland Chinese and Chinese-Vietnamese immigrants.

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.

Luzhu, Taoyuan

The downtown district, known as Nankan, is now a high-rise density living suburb for many who work in Taipei and Taoyuan City.

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

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 Chung Hsing University

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

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.

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.

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.).

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.

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.

Saudia Roundtree

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

Shigeo Shingo

After having worked as a technician specialized in fusions at the Taiwanese railways in Taipei, at the end of the World War II, in 1945, he started to work at the Japan Management Association (JMA) in Tokyo, becoming a consultant focused on the improvement of factory management.

Shih-Hui Chen

Chen Shih-hui (陳士惠) was born in Taipei, Taiwan, and came to the United States in 1982 to study for a master's degree from Northern Illinois University and a doctoral degree from Boston University.

Small-eyed whiting

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

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The species was first described by Roland McKay in his 1985 review of the Sillaginidae based on two specimens collected from a Taipei market, Taiwan; one of which was designated to be the type specimen.

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 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.

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.

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

Will held a celebration concert on 13 October at Neo19 in Taipei which was broadcast live on his YouTube channel.

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

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

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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.

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.

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.

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.

Will Tippin

Since he is now in danger because of his knowledge of SD-6, he is brought into a safehouse of the CIA in Los Angeles, only to be kidnapped out of that safehouse to Taipei by Julian Sark.

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.

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.


Asbjørn Aavik

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Harry E. T. Thayer

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

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.

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.

K. C. Wu

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

Ketagalan Boulevard

In the wake of the renaming of the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall to National Taiwan Democracy Memorial Hall (國立臺灣民主紀念館) by the DPP administration, Taipei Mayor Hau Lung-pin proposed to rename the section of Ketagalan Boulevard between the Presidential Building and Gongyuan Road Anti-Corruption Democracy Square (反貪腐民主廣場) after the 2006 protests.

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.

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.

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.

National Chung Hsing University

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

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.

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.

Roger H. Chen

He studied received a Bachelors of Science in agriculture and business at the National Taiwan University 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.

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.

Taipei Joint Bus System

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

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.

Tsang Tak-sing

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

Wanli

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

William Lai

Born in Wanli, a rural coastal town in northern Taipei County (now New Taipei City) on October 6, 1959, Lai underwent schooling in Taipei City and studied at both National Cheng Kung University in Tainan and National Taiwan University in Taipei, where he specialized in rehabilitation.