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1 January – New Year's Day and Republic Day; 25 January – 2 February – Chinese New Year; 28 February – Peace Memorial Day; 5 April – Children's Day and Tomb-Sweeping Day; 1 May – Labour Day; 31 May – Dragon Boat Festival; 6 October – Mid-Autumn Festival; 10 October – National Day
Based on National Standards of the Republic of China CNS 7648: Data Elements and Interchange Formats—Information Interchange—Representation of Dates and Times (similar to ISO 8601), year numbering may use the Gregorian system as well as the ROC era. For example, 16 January 2025 may be written 2025-01-16 or ROC 114-01-16.
May 1 Labor Day: 勞動節: Government offices and schools remain open; banks and financial markets closed May 4 Literary Day: 文藝節: Commemorates May Fourth Movement: May (second Sunday) Mother's Day: 母親節: Buddha's birthday was changed to fit the date of Mother's Day. [1] [2] June 3 Opium Suppression Movement Day 禁菸節
Taiwan, [II] [i] officially the Republic of China (ROC), [I] is a country [27] in East Asia. [l] The main island of Taiwan, also known as Formosa, lies between the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the northeast, and the Philippines to the south.
May 21 – Three people are injured in the 2024 Taichung Metro attack. [13] A suspect is arrested and subsequently sentenced on 26 December to ten years' imprisonment. [14] May 23 – China holds military drills around Taiwan as a "strong punishment" for "separatist acts". [15]
In May 2021, he became the first person listed on the “diehard supporters of Taiwan independence” blacklist proposed by the Chinese government. [ 7 ] On November 5, 2021, Wu was sanctioned by the Taiwan Affairs Office of the People's Republic of China for "fanning up hostility across the Taiwan Strait and maliciously smearing the mainland".
The Copernicus Climate Change Service confirms that 2024 was the warmest calendar year since records began in 1850, with the average global temperature reaching 1.6 °C above pre-industrial levels, surpassing the 1.5 °C warming benchmark set in 2016 by the Paris Agreement for the first time.
2025 is the current year, and is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2025th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 25th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 6th year of the 2020s decade.