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Knowing Taiwan was released in 1996 and adopted as the junior high school textbook in 1997. This textbook aroused much interest in East Asia. The history section is presented as "history of Taiwan", and the era of Taiwan under Japanese rule was introduced more positively than previous junior high school textbooks, with objective facts and surveys. [5]
Taipei 1,140 (km 2) Taichung 492 (km 2) Kaohsiung 363 (km 2) Tainan 259 (km 2) Hsinchu 117(km 2) 108 265 333 429 800 Urban Population Density Taipei 7,600 (per km 2) Kaohsiung 7,000 (per km 2) Taichung 5,300 (per km 2) Hsinchu 4,700 (per km 2) Tainan 4,600 (per km 2) 322 350 527 611 624 Global Power City Index Taipei 876.3/1800 2016 36 44 [54]
Yang's name "Shuang-zi" is a pen name meaning "twins". Yang, named Yang Jo-tzu (杨若慈; 楊若慈; Yáng ruòcí), grew up mostly interested in writing literature, whereas her twin sister, Yang Jo-hui (杨若晖; 楊若暉; Yáng ruòhuī), was more interested in historical research and translation; Yang Jo-hui died of cancer in 2015, after which Yang Jo-tzu adopted the name "Shuang-zi" for ...
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.
Although South Korea was the exception to this – its debt to GNP ratio was quite high during the period 1980–1985, it was sustained by the country's high level of exports. Exchange rates in the Four Asian Tiger nations had been changed from long-term fixed rate regimes to fixed-but-adjustable rate regimes with the occasional steep ...
Nearly 20 million people in Taiwan are eligible to cast their ballots in the presidential election across almost 18,000 voting stations. Around 1 million will be first-time voters.
Taiwan legislators and other protesters stormed Taipei's biggest bookstore, grabbing the books and setting them on fire on the sidewalk. [1]On 2 March 2001, the Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of China barred Kobayashi from travel to Taiwan, igniting objections from high ranking government officials including National Policy Advisor Alice King.
World leaders are meeting in Paris this month in what amounts to a last-ditch effort to avert the worst ravages of climate change. Climatologists now say that the best case scenario — assuming immediate and dramatic emissions curbs — is that planetary surface temperatures will increase by at least 2 degrees Celsius in the coming decades.