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A total of five mainland Chinese cities will be connected with eight Taiwan airports, with four days a week, 36 round-trip flights across the Taiwan Strait, thereby eliminating time-consuming Hong Kong stopovers. [43] [44] On 7 November 2015, a meeting was held by ROC president Ma Ying-jeou and CCP General Secretary Xi Jinping in Singapore.
July. The Dutch occupy Keelung [25] September. Qing commander Shi Lang leads a fleet of warships to invade Taiwan but is turned back by bad weather [25] Chinese population in Taiwan rises to 50,000 [26] 1665. May. Shi Lang attempts to invade Taiwan but his fleet is scattered by a storm [25] 1666.
On 24 March 2015 Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou made a low-profile day-trip visit to Singapore to pay tribute to late former Prime Minister of Singapore Lee Kuan Yew. Ma's visit came after an invitation from Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong for the private family wake at the official residence of the Prime Minister in Ma's capacity as ...
Google Street View coverage. The following is a timeline for Google Street View, a technology implemented in Google Maps and Google Earth that provides ground-level interactive panoramas of cities. The service was first introduced in the United States on May 25, 2007, and initially covered only five cities: San Francisco, Las Vegas, Denver ...
Asia. 5. The Fantasy Tour was held in support of Chou's debut studio album, Fantasy (2000). 2002–2004. The One World Tour. September 28, 2002 – January 3, 2004. Asia and North America. 16. The One World Tour spanned 16 shows in Taiwan, China, United States, Singapore, Canada, Malaysia and Thailand.
On 10 August 2022, the PRC's Taiwan Affairs Office and the State Council Information Office jointly published the first white paper about Taiwan's status since 2000 called "The Taiwan Question and China's Reunification in the New Era". In it, the PRC urged again for Taiwan to unify under the "one country, two systems" formula.
Tourism revenue. The 2013 annual income for Taiwan from tourism-related industries topped at NT$366.8 billion (US$12.3 billion), an increase of 4.7% from the previous year. The average daily spending of each tourist in 2013 was US$224.07, a decrease of 4.37% from the previous year.
Taiwan has been referred to as a country by several UK Members of Parliament. [8] [9] In 2020, Taiwan donated medical masks to the United Kingdom to help fight the COVID-19 pandemic. Donated masks were transferred to the NHS for distribution. The masks were among 7 million donated to European countries. [10]