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For the record: 7:38 p.m. Aug. 5, 2024: A previous version of this article misspelled the name of Taiwanese viewer Chen Hsien-yi as Chen Hsi-yi.. Taiwan's first gold medal Sunday at the 2024 Paris ...
Yahoo! Kimo (Chinese: Yahoo!奇摩) is the Taiwanese version of Yahoo!, a web services provider based in the United States. In February 2001, Yahoo! Inc. acquired Kimo , a Taiwanese search engine, and in October 2001, Yahoo! Kimo was launched as the merger of Kimo with Yahoo! Taiwan . [1]
The economy was severely damaged by World War II and the Chinese Civil War, and many sports clubs were dissolved due to the sensitive political environment. Although the sports environment had a setback, Japanese colonial era left a crucial foundation in Taiwan that allowed the passion for sports to grow in this difficult time. [3]
Bopomofo is also used to transcribe other Chinese dialects, most commonly Taiwanese Hokkien and Cantonese, however its use can be applied to practically any dialect in handwriting (because not all letters are encoded). Outside of Chinese, Bopomofo letters are also used in Hmu and Ge languages by a small number of Hmu Christians. [8]
KingWhale Taipei was established in 2019 by textile firm KingWhale (pinyin: Jīnghuá gōngyè; lit. 'Jinghua Industry') from players of the University of Taipei. [1] [2] [3] ...
Baseball was introduced to Taiwan around 1897, but it initially remained a game for Japanese bureaucrats and bankers in the colonial seat of Taihoku (modern-day Taipei). [1] The first official baseball team in Taiwan was formed in 1904, when the island was a Japanese colony , by the Middle School of the Taiwan Governor-General's National ...
Right now, Taiwan is No. 4 in Asia, behind Japan, South Korea and Hong Kong. [3] Not unlike South Korea, Taiwanese rugby has grown with the local economy, and has been tied up with corporate interests. [3] Growing economic links with Japan, a major rugby playing nation, have helped the game in Taiwan from the 1960s to the present. [3]
The Taiwan Professional Basketball League (TPBL, Chinese: 台灣職業籃球大聯盟) is a professional basketball league in Taiwan composed of 7 teams. It is the fourth Taiwanese professional basketball league after the Chinese Basketball Alliance (CBA; 1994–1999), P. League+ (PLG; founded in 2020), and T1 League (2021–2024).