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Kinmen, alternatively known as Quemoy, is a group of islands governed as a county by the Republic of China (Taiwan), only 10 km (6.2 mi) east from the city of Xiamen in Fujian, located at the southeastern coast of the People's Republic of China, from which they are separated by Xiamen Bay.
The First Taiwan Strait Crisis (also known as the Formosa Crisis, the 1954–1955 Taiwan Strait Crisis, the Offshore Islands Crisis, the Quemoy-Matsu Crisis, and the 1955 Taiwan Strait Crisis) was a brief armed conflict between the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Republic of China (ROC) focused on several ROC-held islands a few miles from the Chinese mainland in the Taiwan Strait.
Meanwhile, the Japanese-controlled Senkaku Islands [38] are claimed by the ROC as "Diaoyutai Islands" within Toucheng Township, Yilan County [39] and are considered to be part of geographic and provincial Taiwan by the ROC. The Senkaku Islands lie about 186 kilometres from the northeast of Taiwan Island, and situated roughly 330 kilometres from ...
The sale of the home also includes a 2.75% commission to a real estate agent who brings in a buyer, if that agent is a member of the Keys Multiple Listing Service.
Taiwan has controlled Kinmen, and the Matsu islands further up the coast, since the defeated Republic of China government fled to Taipei in 1949 after losing a civil war with Mao Zedong's ...
The Second Taiwan Strait Crisis, also known as the 1958 Taiwan Strait Crisis, was a conflict between the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Republic of China (ROC). ). The PRC shelled the islands of Kinmen (Quemoy) and the Matsu Islands along the east coast of mainland China in an attempt to take them from the Chinese Nationalist Party, also known as the Kuomintang (KMT), and to probe ...
Taiwan’s social housing program, launched in 2014, aimed to offer long-term rental options for low-income families, young professionals, and other vulnerable populations. Social housing units are primarily rental units overseen by local governments, with Taipei and New Taipei City as major participants.
Jincheng Township (Chinese: 金城 鎮) is an urban township on the southwestern corner of the island of Kinmen (Quemoy). It is the county seat of Kinmen County, Fujian Province, Republic of China . Jincheng was the seat of the ROC's Fukien Province from 1949–1956 and 1996–2018.