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5 unusual facts about Taiwan


2013 Asia Series

The tournament was held in Taichung and Taoyuan, Taiwan, starting on 15 November with the final held on 20 November.

Asian Pacific League for Freedom and Democracy

Attending the Conference were the representatives of Australia, Republic of China (Taiwan), Guam, India, Indonesia, Japan, Jordan, Korea, Laos, Palau, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Turkey, Vietnam.

Front Mission

The People's Republic of Da Han Zhong (DHZ) is formed from the presumably peaceful reunification of China and Taiwan.

Functional constituency

Functional (or professional) constituencies (職業團體) were also used in elections in Taiwan before the democratic reforms of the 1990s.

Korean Chinese cuisine

--What kind of black bean paste?--> distinctly different from the various types of zhajiang mian served in mainland China and Taiwan.


Aero Ae 270 Ibis

In 1997, Aero signed an agreement with AIDC of Taiwan to jointly manufacture and market the aircraft through Ibis Aerospace.

Alyssa Chia

Chia dropped out of Beijing Film Academy because the company in Taiwan called her back and she had a great attachment to her family.

Amentotaxus formosana

Amentotaxus formosana is found only in Taiwan where it only occurs in four localities of cloud forest in the Hengchun Peninsula, in the extreme south of the island.

Andō Teibi

Work also began on the development of Taiwan's forest resources on Taiping and Pa-hsien Mountains, as well as construction on the Yilan and Pingtung railway lines.

Aquabacterium fontiphilum

Aquabacterium fontiphilum is a gram-negative non-spore-forming, motile bacterium from the genus of Aquabacterium and the family of Comamonadaceae which was isolated from a water sample from the Nature Valley in Hsinchu County in Taiwan.

Automated Systems Holdings Limited

The ASL Group, consisting of Automated Systems (HK) Limited, ELM Computer Technologies Limited, CSA Automated (Macau) Ltd., Taiwan Automated Systems Ltd., Guangzhou Automated Systems Limited and ASL Automated (Thailand) Ltd., offers professional information technology services to corporate clients in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Macau, Mainland China and Thailand.

Barbara Tropp

Two years in Taiwan and a fortuitous stay with food obsessed host families led to her immersion in the intricacies of Chinese cuisine.

Brown-eared Bulbul

The Brown-eared Bulbul (Hypsipetes amaurotis) is a medium-sized bulbul which is found from the Russian Far East (including Sakhalin), northeastern China, the Korean Peninsula, and Japan, south to Taiwan and the Babuyan and Batanes island chains in the north of the Philippines, occasionally being found on Luzon.

Chihchun Chi-sun Lee

Dr. Lee is originally from Kaohsiung, Taiwan, and is currently on the faculty of the University of South Florida, in Tampa, USA, She received a doctoral degree from the University of Michigan, two masters’ degrees from Ohio University, and a bachelor’s degree from Soochow University in Taiwan.

Chinese Egret

It formerly bred in Taiwan and the New Territories of Hong Kong although it is now only a non-breeding visitor or passage migrant to these countries.

Chinese hip hop

In the late 90s Hong Kong's Softhard and LMF were influential though their Cantonese dialect was foreign to Mandarin speaking regions, while Taiwan's MC HotDog, Da Xi Men, and Da Zhi were more widely intelligible in mainland China.

Chung Hsing New Village

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

Edith Pfau

Pfau's education ministry included eleven years teaching at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College, eleven years at Immaculata Junior College in Washington, D.C., and ten years at Providence University in Shalu, Taichung, Taiwan.

Felix Chen

He is also sometimes invited to give guest performances with the National Symphony Orchestra and the National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra.

Gray's paradox

In 2009, researchers from the National Chung Hsing University in Taiwan introduced new concepts of “kidnapped airfoils” and “circulating horsepower” to explain the swimming capabilities of the swordfish.

Green World Ecological Farm

:Home to over one hundred species of birds, including: Macaw, Bird of Paradise, Great Curassow, Blue-crowned Pigeon, Green Touraco, Channel-Billed Toucan, Toco Toucan, Golden Pheasant, Vulturine Guineafowl, Wood Duck, Emerald Dove, Violet Turaco, Asian Fairy Bluebird, Red-and-yellow Barbet, Taiwan Sibia, Finch-billed Bulbul and Eclectus Parrot.

H. aspera

Hydrangea aspera, a shrub species native to the region between the Himalaya, across southern China to Taiwan

Harold Soref

On 30 September 1972, the Daily Telegraph remarked that "Mr. Harold Soref is nothing if not consistent", commenting that when an all-party delegation began a tour of Red China, he left defiantly for Taiwan.

ICLP

The International Chinese Language Program (ICLP), an institute for Chinese language instruction located in Taiwan.

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.

Jeff Yang

Yang is also known for his books, including Once Upon a Time in China: A Guide to the Cinemas of Hong Kong, Taiwan and Mainland China, I Am Jackie Chan: My Life in Action (with Jackie Chan), Eastern Standard Time: A Guide to Asian Influence in American Culture, from Astro Boy to Zen Buddhism, and Secret Identities: The Asian American Superhero Anthology.

Jhongli Station

Jhongli Station (Yilan County):A railway station along Taiwan Railway Administration Yilan Line.

JournalServer

The initiative was formed in the summer of 2001 with the support of the University of Oxford, BITS Pilani and the National Science Council of Taiwan, with seed-funding from the AIT Trust based in Imperial College London.

Kaohsiung Medical University

Chung-Ho Memorial Hospital is the largest medical center in southern Taiwan and serves as a teaching hospital.

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.

Matrilocal residence

Examples of matrilocal societies include the people of Ngazidja, the Ancient Pueblo Peoples of Chaco Canyon, the Nair community in Kerala in South India, the Moso of Yunnan and Sichuan in southwestern China, the Siraya of Taiwan, and the Minangkabau of western Sumatra.

Paiwan people

In 1871, an Okinawan vessel shipwrecked on the southern tip of Taiwan, and the crew of fifty-four were beheaded by the Paiwan aborigines.

Penbay International Circuit

Irish driver Gary Thompson helped officially open Taiwan's all-new circuit by driving a Minardi F1 two seater race car around the track.

Peppermoon

In Taiwan the album was released as a 2-CDs set with an exclusive covers EP that includes "Qui a tué grand-maman ?" (Polnareff), "Manchester et Liverpool" (Marie Laforêt), "Tous les garçons et les filles", "Ce petit cœur" et "Comment te dire adieu" (Françoise Hardy), "La plus belle pour aller danser" (Sylvie Vartan) and "Porque Te Vas" (Jeanette).

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.

Polygonia c-aureum

The Asian Comma (Polygonia c-aureum) is a middle-size butterfly found in Japan (from Hokkaidō to Tanegashima), Korean Peninsula, China, Taiwan, and Indochina.

Polyvinylidene fluoride

These PVDF paints have extremely good gloss and color retention, and they are in use on many prominent buildings around the world, e.g. the Petronas Towers in Malaysia and Taipei 101 in Taiwan, as well as on commercial and residential metal roofing.

R. Norris Shreve

After joining the Purdue University faculty in 1930, he helped to build the University’s School of Chemical Engineering, the Purdue-Taiwan Engineering Project, and National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan.

Reallusion

Headquartered in Silicon Valley, with R&D centers in Taiwan, and offices and training centers in Germany and Japan.

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.

Sun Moon Lake

Situated in Yuchi, Nantou, the area around the Sun Moon Lake is home to the Thao tribe, one of aboriginal tribes in Taiwan.

Tainan Wu Garden

Wu Garden (吳園), known at the time of its creation as "Purple Spring Garden (紫春園)," is located in Zhongxi District, Tainan, Taiwan (once part of Tainan (府城)'s Pang-kiô-thâu (枋橋頭) area).

Taiwan Daily

Taiwan Daily was founded on October 25, 1964, as Oriental Daily (東方日報), in Keelung.

Taiwan Security Enhancement Act

Its proponents intended the proposed law to strengthen and update the Taiwan Relations Act, which was passed soon after the US ceased official relations with Taiwan, and instead recognized the People's Republic of China.

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.

Taiwan–United States relations

and the first ever Direct Election of the Presidency of Republic of China in 1996 and President Lee Teng-hui's 1995 visit to Cornell University of the United States that incurred the Third Taiwan Strait Crisis and the US intervention by deploying two aircraft carrier battlegroups near Taiwan Strait amid missile tests by People's Liberation Army in the nearby coastal provinces of People's Republic of China.

Tea Research and Extension Station

The Taiwan Tea Research and Extension Station also known as TRES is the research and development center of Taiwan tea where scientists and tea masters conduct study, research and experiment to improve tea plantations, to develop new and better cultivars, to manufacture and educate the industry and consumers.

THSR Miaoli Station

The THSR Miaoli Station (高鐵苗栗站) is a planned station of the Taiwan High Speed Rail to be located in Houlong Township, Miaoli County, Taiwan.

THSR Yunlin Station

The THSR Yunlin Station (高鐵雲林站) is a planned station of the Taiwan High Speed Rail located in Huwei Township, Yunlin County, Taiwan.

VentureSoft

It was founded in 1998, and currently operates in Singapore, Malaysia, India, Australia, Brunei, China, Hong Kong, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Europe and the USA.

Walter Truett Anderson

He is on the editorial boards of several journals including The Journal of Humanistic Psychology, Futures: The Journal of Policy, Planning, and Futures Studies, The Journal of Futures Studies (Tamkang University, Taiwan), and Cadmus: The Journal of the South East Asian Division of the World Academy of Art and Science (Zagreb).

Wang Libin

In 1993, he moved to play for the Tera Electronics club in Taiwan and retired there after a decade-long "post-retirement" career as overseas professional player.

Zeti Akhtar Aziz

She was awarded alongside Philippines’ central bank governor Amando Tetangco, Jr. and Taiwan’s Central Bank Governor Perng Fai-nan, from a list of central bank governors of more than 50 key countries.

阿里

Alishan Range (阿里山山脉), one of the five major mountain ranges of the island of Taiwan


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Annulohypoxylon archeri

archeri is commonly used in the cultivation of Tremella fuciformis - one of the foremost medicinal and culinary fungi of China and Taiwan.

Anthony Yuen

He served at the Broadcasting Corporation of China and Taiwan News in Taiwan, as well as several Chinese newspapers in the United States, before becoming editor in chief and current affairs anchor of the Chinese news channel Phoenix Television in 2001.

Chinatown, Brisbane

Now, many Chinese-Australian residents including people from Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau and China have started to drift away from Chinatown and settle around the favourable Feng shui Sunnybank area located south of the CBD.

Chinese Brazilian

Ken Chang, a Brazilian actor of Chinese descent, popular TV series star in Taiwan and China.

Cingshuei High School

Chingshuei High School is the only one high school in Chingshuei, Taichung county, Taiwan.

Dangerous Mind

In 2007, Huang He, won Best Leading Actor in a Television Series and Dangerous Mind was awarded Best Television Series at the 42nd Golden Bell Awards, Taiwan.

Daniel Reid

After graduation, Reid moved to Taiwan, where he lived 16 years studying and writing about various aspects of traditional Chinese culture, focusing particularly on Chinese medicine and ancient Taoist health and longevity systems.

Dongning

Kingdom of Tungning, Han Chinese government which ruled Taiwan, between 1661 and 1683

Emile D. Beaulieu

During the latter part of the 1980s, Beaulieu visited Neustadt an der Weinstraße in Germany and Taichung in Taiwan, establishing sister city relationships between these two cities and Manchester.

Jiang Yi-huah

Commenting on Taiwan's 2013 global competitiveness ranking decline by the International Institute for Management Development in end of May 2013, Jiang ask all of the government sectors to make improvements and address the relevant problems.

Kidd-class destroyer

All four have been transferred to the Republic of China (Taiwan) Navy under the Kuang Hua VII program.

Member states of the United Nations

Between 1993 and 2007, the ROC repeatedly petitioned to rejoin the UN as the representative of Taiwan, instead of as the representative of China, using the designation "Republic of China on Taiwan" (used by the Kuomintang-led administration under Lee Teng-hui), "Republic of China (Taiwan)" (used by the Democratic Progressive Party-led administration under Chen Shui-bian), or "Taiwan" (used by the administration under Chen Shui-bian for the first time in 2007).

Michael Wynne

Secretary of Defense Robert Gates asked for and received his resignation (and that of Chief of Staff T. Michael Moseley) on June 5, 2008, in the wake of the 2007 United States Air Force nuclear weapons incident and the mistaken shipment of Minuteman III parts to Taiwan in 2006, followed by an investigation by and a critical report from Admiral Kirkland H. Donald regarding the Minuteman incident.

Ming Hsieh

His family was persecuted during the Cultural Revolution as a part of China's upper middle class having ties with the old national government moved to Taiwan (Yingzhou, Ming's grandfather, was famous high-ranking official of Republic of China); as a result, his family was forced to move in 1966 to a small village near Panjin.

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.

NEHS

NEHS, National Experimental High School, a public high school located in Hsinchu, Taiwan, Republic of China.

PSPLab

It is located in Hsin-Chu, Taiwan, and focuses on researching better perceptual signal processing techniques, particularly in regards to DSP, Perception, and Software.

Rogier van der Heide

Van der Heide joined the Arup practice in 2004, and subsequently worked on projects including Star Place in Taiwan and Galleria West in South Korea, both in collaboration with Ben van Berkel and the 2004 Architecture Biennale show in Venice in collaboration with Hani Rashid of Asymptote.

Self access language learning centers

The Multimedia English Learning Center at the National Kaohsiung First University of Science and Technology in Taiwan has 60 computers, 2 service desks, 2 counseling rooms and discussion areas with sofas and tables.

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.

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

Starcom IP Asia

Starcom IP Asia consists of 17 countries and 29 offices, with locations in Australia (Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, Gold Coast, Brisbane) Bangalore, Bangladesh, China (Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Hong Kong), India (New Delhi, Chennai, Mumbai), Indonesia, Japan, Kazakhstan, Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand (Auckland, Wellington), Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Taiwan and Vietnam.

Sun Moon Lake

After Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist Government moved to Taiwan, the island was renamed Kuang Hua ("Glorious China") and in 1978 the local government built a pavilion where annual weddings took place.

Tai Ping Shan

Taiping Mountain, which is a mountain in Ilan, Taiwan, Republic of China

Taiwan saddled carpetshark

The Taiwan saddled carpetshark, Cirrhoscyllium formosanum, is a carpetshark of the family Parascylliidae found around Taiwan, between latitudes 28°N and 21°N, at depths down to 110 m.

Takasago Army

Takasago (Chinese: 高砂, Japanese: タカサゴ) is an ancient Japanese name for Taiwan.

The Story of Billy

The pre-ordering of the album began on 10 August 2012 in Taiwan and included a limited edition Rubik's Cube with each pre-order purchase.

Thingumajig Theatre

Since then, they’ve worked together as makers, performers and directors for In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre, Islewilde Festival, Oregon Country Fair, Vancouver’s Public Dreams Society and Taiwan’s Dream Community.

THSR 700T

A THSR 700T train simulator, known as Railfan: Taiwan High Speed Rail, was developed jointly by Taiwan-based company Actainment and Japanese company Ongakukan in 2007, based on the latter's Train Simulator series.

Tzu Chi Singapore

The foundation was originally set up by Venerable Cheng Yen and based in Hualien, Taiwan.

Xiaolin

Xiaolin, Kaohsiung (小林里), village in Jiaxian District, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Republic of China