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		Pingtung County (; POJ: PÃ®n-tang-kÅan) is a county in Southern Taiwan.
		Pingtung County is officially administered as a county of Taiwan.
		Modern-day Pingtung County and Kaohsiung County were part of Wan-nien Province (è¬å¹´å·) during the Kingdom of Tungning and Fengshan Province in the Qing Dynasty.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Pingtung_County (269 words)

	Pingtung County:
		Pingtung County (Traditional Chinese: 屏東縣; Hanyu Pinyin: Píngdōng Xiàn; Tongyong Pinyin: Píngdong Siàn; Wade-Giles: P'ing-tung Hsien; POJ: Pîn-tang-kōan) is a county in Southern Taiwan.
		Pingtung County is officially administered as a county of Taiwan Province, Republic of China.
		Modern-day Pingtung County and Kaohsiung County were part of Wan-nien Province (萬年州) during the Kingdom of Tungning and Fongshan Province in the Qing Dynasty.
	wikipedia.openfun.org /wiki/Pingtung_County (328 words)

	Taiwan Pingtung District Court
		Pingtung District Court is located in the southernmost county of Taiwan, Pingtung County.
		Its jurisdiction covered the whole Pingtung County, which extends east to Hsiungfeng Peak in Wutai Townships, faces the Taiwan Straits in the west, and is separated from Kaohsiung County in the north by the Kaoping River.
		The county is 27,756.003 square kilometers in area, and has approximately a population of 900,000.
	ptd.judicial.gov.tw /english/default.htm (337 words)

	Pingtung building windmills, not chasing them
		Pingtung County, the southernmost county in Taiwan, is known for its sunny weather, wind and ideal growing environment.
		Pingtung County has already begun to work on the development of wind power and one Pingtung township is seeking government subsidies for its plans to build a "Solar City." The county also has plans to install solar-powered street lights along one of its highways.
		Pingtung's EPB also sees the excreta from the county's numerous pig farms, one of the major forms of pollution in Taiwan, as an ideal source for methane power generation, and has decided to implement related plans this year.
	investintaiwan.nat.gov.tw /en/news/200409/2004092501.html (679 words)

	Pingtung County - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pingtung County (Traditional Chinese: 屏東縣; Hanyu Pinyin: Píngdōng Xiàn; Wade-Giles: P'ing-tung Hsien; POJ: Pîn-tang-kōan) is a county in Southern Taiwan.
		Pingtung is famous for the beautiful sight of Kenting National Park.
		The Kenting National Park is the first National park established in 1984.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pingtung_County (140 words)

	Fujian
		Thus, Quemoy is included as one of the 45 counties and Matsu as one of the 334 townships.
		Quemoy County is nominally controlled by Quanzhou prefecture-level city, but it is administered in its entirety by the Republic of China on Taiwan.
		The PRC-administered Lianjiang County, under the jurisdiction of Fuzhou prefecture-level city, nominally includes the Matsu Islands, but Matsu is in reality controlled by the Republic of China on Taiwan, which administers Matsu as Lienchiang County (same name Romanized differently).
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/f/fu/fujian.html (3136 words)

	SurfWax: News, Reviews and Articles On Pingtung
		Pingtung officials met late Tuesday and decided the storm's winds and rain were not strong enough to call off classes or make people stay home from work, said Yang Chi-shu, disaster planning department head under the county fire department.
		Pingtung prosecutors have finished investigations for their case against Lee Tai-an and requested a death sentence on charges of murder, destruction of railway infrastructure, endangering passenger safety and illegitimately...
		The Pingtung branch, the first duty-free industrial zone in the nation's southernmost county, is scheduled for completion by the end of next year, the EPZA said, noting that all major roads, communication networks, and water and sewage systems have already been completed...
	news.surfwax.com /worldcities/files/Pingtung_Taiwan.html (5023 words)

	T a i w a n -- G O G O
		Pingtung borders on Kaohsiung to the west, and Taitung to the east.
		Topographically, Pingtung can be divided into three quite different kinds of terrain: a western coastal plain, an eastern mountain area, and the southern Hengchun Peninsula.
		Pingtung's terrain too is extremely diverse, especially on the island of Hsiao Liuchiu, long called Paradise on the Sea, and in our first National Park, in Kenting.
	www.gio.gov.tw /taiwan-website/gogo/goen_61.htm (470 words)

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		Local residents gather on the street in southern Pingtung county
		Local residents gather on the street after a strong earthquake shook Taiwan on Tuesday in southern Pingtung county December 27, 2006.
		Paramedics help a soldier, who is simulating an earthquake victim, during exercise at the military hospital in Georgian town of Gori, some 80 km (50 miles) west from Tbilisi, February 15, 2007.
	www.alertnet.org /thenews/pictures/TPE35.htm (163 words)

	Asiaweek.com
		Liu, who had headed Taoyuan county since 1989, was murdered in his home along with a county councilor (another survived), two security guards, a secretary, a driver, a cook and the wife of the county Agricultural Bureau chief.
		The county chief was also under investigation in connection with another land speculation deal.
		Pingtung county chief Wu Tze-yuan, a Kuomintang politician whose career owes much to the patronage of President Lee Teng-hui, was detained on Oct. 14 over a kickback scandal involving a waste-water treatment plant.
	www.pathfinder.com /asiaweek/96/1206/nat4.html (857 words)

	Taiwan Information (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The northern boundary of Tapeng Bay is the Tai 17 Provincial Road and the Ping 63 County Road.
		Six of the nine tribes are concentrated primarily in Taitung and Pingtung counties, in the southern half of Taiwan.
		Wutai is a mountain township in the northeastern part of Pingtung County, and in addition to Wutai itself includes the villages of Yila, Quwu, Ali, Jiamu, Dawu, and Haocha.
	www.asia-planet.net /taiwan/pingtung.htm (4901 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Politics of the Republic of China (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The rest of Taiwan and the Penghu Islands are administered together as the Province of Taiwan.
		Kinmen, Matsu, and smaller nearby islands are administered as counties of Fukien (Fujian) Province.
		Politics of the Republic of China takes place in a framework of a semi-presidential representative democratic republic, whereby the President is head of state and the premier (President of the Executive Yuan) is head of government, and of a pluriform multi-party system.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Politics-of-the-Republic-of-China (1571 words)

	Teochew (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The district's name hadbeen Haiyang until 1914, when it was renamed to Chao'an County (潮安縣)to avoid ambiguity with the Haiyang County of ShandongProvince.
		The seat of the 1951 Guangdong People's government was at Chao'an County, a part of itwas created as Chao'an City in 1953 and later that year renamed to Chaozhou City (county-level).
		Ch'ao-chou Township (潮州鎮;), or Chaochou, of Pingtung County, Taiwan is named after Chaozhou.
	www.therfcc.org /teochew-246948.html (390 words)

	Pingtung, Taiwan - Current News & Information
		The park released a total of 98 of the indigenous deer in 1994, 1995, 1997 and 2002 into a forested area in the coastal county of Pingtung.
		PINGTUNG - Taiwan will begin to build an agricultural biotechnology park in Pingtung County early next year, director of the preparatory office for the...
		Later serving as councilor of the provincial assembly and commissioner of Pingtung County, Su is in his second term heading Taipei County Government.
	www.4newz.net /world/nz/Pingtung.html (2205 words)

	Toxic Trade News
		According to Liou, negotiations between the Pingtung County Government and Formosa Plastics might soon result in an agreement for both sides to share the costs of cleaning up the site in Hsinyuan township and processing the waste at Formosa's plants.
		The Pingtung County Government asked for NT$50 million in compensation from Formosa to seal the waste in containers.
		However, Formosa rejected the claim, saying it was not the source of the waste, and filed a lawsuit against the county government for accusing it without evidence.
	www.ban.org /ban_news/activists_attack.html (576 words)

	Falun Dafa Clearwisdom.net - Officials in Pingtung County, Taiwan, Actively Promote Falun Gong
		Pingtung County official letter requesting the Education Bureau to promote Falun Gong to all levels of schools in the county
		Pingtung County is located in the southernmost corner of Taiwan.
		Pingtung's practitioners introduced the wonderfulness of Falun Gong to Pingtung residents in response to the Taiwan government's "Sports Population Doubling Plan." In 2004 and 2005, they assisted the schools and the communities to realize the proposed plan to expand the Pingtung County Education Bureau's sports and exercise classes.
	www.clearwisdom.net /emh/articles/2006/6/4/74074.html (774 words)

	Pingtung County Government
		With Kaohsiung County on the west and Taitung County on the east, Pingtung County occupies 2,775 square kilometers overing thirty-three towns and has a population of less than one million.
		From the north to the south, the county is rich in unrivaled landscapes: the imposing Central Mountains, the overwhelming waterfalls hidden in the deep mountains and spacious oceanic views.
		Pingtung possesses four important forest parks: Shuankuei Lake Nature Reserve, Mount Tawu Nature Reserve, Chinshuiyin Nature Reserve and Mount Chachayalai Nature Reserve.This county is surrounded by the ocean in three sides giving any ecology research done on its seashore much value.
	english.cca.gov.tw /ct.asp?xItem=12730&ctNode=4173 (306 words)

	National Pingtung University of Education (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Pingtung County is one of Taiwan's major zones of agricultural production, yielding rice and other produce enjoyed throughout the island.
		After Taiwan's restoration to the Republic of China in 1945, NPUE continued to function as a training facility and it was later promoted from a 5-year junior college to a 4-year provisional teachers college.
		In 1991, the college came under the jurisdiction of the national government, and its name was changed to reflect the new status within the constellation of normal colleges and universities in Taiwan.
	www.npue.edu.tw /npue_eng/History.asp (216 words)

	NATIONAL PINGTUNG TEACHERS COLLEGE
		National Pingtung Teachers College (NPTTC) is one of a group of 11 teachers colleges and universities in Taiwan.
		After Taiwan¡¦s restoration to the Republic of China in 1945, NPTTC continued to function as a training facility and it was later promoted from a 5-year junior college to a 4-year provisional teachers college.
		National Pingtung Teachers College (NPTTC) is located in Pingtung, the county seat of the southernmost of Taiwan¡¦s 19 counties.
	www.studyintaiwan.org /schools/NPTTC.htm (406 words)

	Chaozhou - InfoSearchPoint.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The district's name had been Haiyang until 1914, when it was renamed to Chao'an County (潮安縣) to avoid ambiguity with the Haiyang County of Shandong Province.
		The seat of the 1951 Guangdong People's government was at Chao'an County, a part of it was created as Chao'an City in 1953 and later that year renamed to Chaozhou City (county-level).
		Raoping County, formerly governed by Shantou City, came to be administered by Chaozhou.
	www.infosearchpoint.com /display/Chaozhou (386 words)

	Asiaweek.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Liu, who had headed Taoyuan county since 1989, was murdered in his home along with a county councilor (another survived), two security guards, a secretary, a driver, a cook and the wife of the county Agricultural Bureau chief.
		The county chief was also under investigation in connection with another land speculation deal.
		Pingtung county chief Wu Tze-yuan, a Kuomintang politician whose career owes much to the patronage of President Lee Teng-hui, was detained on Oct. 14 over a kickback scandal involving a waste-water treatment plant.
	affiliate.timeincmags.com /asiaweek/96/1206/nat4.html (857 words)

	Wings Taiwan
		Pingtung County government had ordered the flight park closed, but the launch is on private land.
		Pingtung has an airport but there are flights only from Taipei domestic and international airports.
		Kaohsiung is a 20 minute train ride away from Pingtung and may be the better place to transfer to.
	www.wingstaiwan.com /saichia.php (1346 words)

	Su Tseng-chang - Voyager, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Born in Pingtung, Su was a practicing lawyer (1973-1983) educated in the National Taiwan University.
		He was previously the magistrate of Pingtung County (1989-1994) and magistrate of Taipei County (1997-2004).
		His first election as the Taipei magistrate was aided by a split between the New Party and the Kuomintang.
	www.voyager.in /Su_Tseng-chang (252 words)

	The e-Government entry point of Taiwan
		To usher in the Year of the Monkey--the ninth year in the 12-year zodiacal cycle of the Chinese lunar calendar--Pingtung County is currently holding the 2004 Kenting Wind Bell Festival, lasting from Jan. 3 to Feb 8.
		It is only appropriate that Taiwan's first major festival of the new lunar year should be held by Pingtung County inasmuch as its capital, Pingtung City, was known in earlier times as Monkey City.
		In pace with the development of Pingtung County's wind-chime industry, this year's festival activities feature a wide variety of innovative displays and entertainment, said the county's Cultural Affairs Bureau.
	english.www.gov.tw /e-Gov/pda_index.jsp?page=1&recordid=52721&categid=12 (925 words)

	Pingtung County Government:::English:::
		This county of passionate peoples located on the southernmost tip of Taiwan, enjoys a variety of natural resources: year-round mild sunshine, clear blue skies, a vast ocean, lush mountains and murmuring streams...
		In a big move shedding its old image as an agricultural county, Pingtung is taking daring steps toward a brighter future...
		Autumn is a great time to visit Kenting, which sits at the southernmost point of Taiwan.
	www.pthg.gov.tw /english (203 words)

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		In the city's adjacent jurisdictions, Kaohsiung County and Pingtung County, 1818 cases and 233 cases had been reported, respectively, as of Mon 18 Nov 2002.
		To further monitor the spread of the disease, CDC [Taiwan] officials convened an emergency meeting in southern Taiwan on Monday, raising the alarm levels in Pingtung County, whose population is about 900 000.
		The hardest-hit parts of the county are Tungkang, a fishing port that is home to 50 000 residents, and densely populated Pingtung City, with a population of about 215 000.
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	List of Pingtung Hsien hotels : Hotels directory, hotel reservation, and accommodation.
		Pingtung Hsien hotels and resorts directory contains a range of hotels from budget hotels to 5 star hotels and resorts by destination.
		For detailed Pingtung Hsien hotels information or to make a reservation, select a hotel and let asiahotels.com be your Pingtung Hsien travel agent.
		Also, see hotels listed as 5 star hotels in Pingtung Hsien, 4 star hotels in Pingtung Hsien, or 3 star hotels in Pingtung Hsien.
	www.asiahotels.com /location-listby-name/Pingtung_Hsien-Taiwan.asp (188 words)

	Taiwan Bulbul (Pycnonotus taivanus) - BirdLife species factsheet
		Although it is considered relatively common in parts of its range, with recent counts of over 100 at several sites, its population and range are thought to be declining and the genetic purity of several subpopulations in doubt.
		Indeed, genetically pure birds may be limited to the coastal mountains and Tungho and Luye in Taitung county.
		Habitat alteration and urbanisation are threats throughout its range and may have caused its extinction in Ilan county.
	www.birdlife.org /print.html?url=%2Fdatazone%2Fsites%2Findex.html%3Faction%3DSpcHTMDetails.asp%26sid%3D7186%26m%3D0 (575 words)

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