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Encyclopedia: Taichung County   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) Dongshih (東勢;, Hakka: Tung-si) is an urban township in eastern Taichung County, Taiwan Province of the Republic of China. Wufong (霧峰;) is a rural township in southeastern Taichung County, Taiwan Province of the Republic of China. Tainan County (台南縣, pinyin: Táinán Xiàn) is a county in Southern Taiwan. www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Taichung-County   (1518 words)

Taichung - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Taichung (Chinese: 台中; pinyin: Táizhōng; Wade-Giles: T'ai-chung; POJ: Tâi-tiong) is a city located in west-central Taiwan with a population of just over one million people, making it the third largest city on the island, after Taipei and Kaohsiung. Taichung is famous for suncakes (taiyang bing) and its monumental number of KTV lounges. Taichung is the sister city of Austin, Texas. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Taichung   (144 words)

Taichung on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) Situated in an area where rice, sugarcane, and bananas are grown, Taichung is a distribution and processing center for these crops. The city has textile, machine-building, food-processing, and chemical industries, and was named an export-processing zone after the construction of a new port west of the city. Japanese school in Taichung to resume classes in mid-Oct. www.encyclopedia.com /html/T/Taichung.asp   (552 words)

:: Welcome to Manila Bulletin Online :: Also on Saturday, another mudslide in nearby Taichung County killed two people, and an 80-year-old woman and her 4-year-old grandson drowned in their flooded home there, police said. Taichung County residents said floodwaters submerged the first floor of their apartment building in less than an hour, forcing them to rush to higher floors, the China Times newspaper said. Television footage showed rescuers struggling with their overturned raft in a raging river in central Taichung County before reaching a family of seven trapped in their hillside house. www.mb.com.ph /issues/2004/07/05/MAIN2004070513408.html   (329 words)

Matsu Islands   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) The Matsu Islands (馬祖列島; or less frequently, 馬祖群島 Pinyin: Mǎzǔ) are a minor archipelago of 19 islands and islets in the Taiwan Strait administered as Lienchiang County (連江 Pinyin: Liánjiāng), Fujian Province of the Republic of China (ROC, based on Taiwan). The People's Republic of China controls the part of the county adjoining the mainland and has a separate administration for that jurisdiction, Lianjiang County, which claims the entire archipelago to be its Mazu Township (妈祖乡;). In April 2003, the county government started considering changing the name to Matsu County to avoid confusion with the county of the same name on the mainland. hallencyclopedia.com /Matsu_Islands   (995 words)

Taiwan Communique no.78 The results mean that the democratic opposition now controls virtually all major population centers on the island and their surrounding counties, covering an area holding some 71.5 percent of Taiwan's population: Taipei City is governed by DPP presidential hopeful Chen Shui-bian, while in the surrounding Taipei County, Mr. Farther to the south, Taoyuan, Hsinchu, Taichung, Tainan and Kaohsiung counties are all held by the opposition. The Kuomintang received a majority in only eight counties, most of them thinly populated areas in central and eastern Taiwan, and Kinmen and Matsu, the two small islands off the Chinese coast, which are considered separate counties by the Taiwan authorities. www.taiwandc.org /twcom/78-no1.htm   (1646 words)

Quemoy Administratively, it is in the Kinmen County of Fujian Province. The county is claimed as part of Fujian's Quanzhou Prefecture by the People's Republic of China. Jincheng and Jinsha are the largest of the six counties. www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/q/qu/quemoy.html   (486 words)

Taiwan Province - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) Taiwan Province also excludes Kinmen and Lienchiang Counties, which are adminstered as the ROC part of Fujian Province. Note: The cities of Taipei and Kaohsiung are administered directly by the central government and are not part of Taiwan province, though the counties of the same name surrounding these cities are part of the province. In contrast to the past where the head of Taiwan province was considered a major official, the Governor of the Taiwan Provincial Government after 1999 has been considered a very minor position. www.northmiami.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Taiwan_province   (1197 words)

Taiwanese elections victory The results show a continuing erosion in the Kuomintang's traditional hold on power, and has significant implications for future national-level elections: The opposition DPP is coming within striking distance to win the Legislative Yuan in 1999 and even the Presidential elections in 2000. Eighty candidates vied for positions as mayors and county chiefs in 23 cities and counties. The important heavily-populated county is an important stronghold for the opposition. www.taiwandc.org /nws-9728.htm   (376 words)

FarShores News: Man's Ear Is Earthquake Detector A Taichung County resident who has experienced tinnitus before earthquakes, including Friday's magnitude 7 temblor, should be studied by the Central Weather Bureau and medical practitioners, an ear-nose-throat specialist advised yesterday. The Taichung County resident had a ringing sound in his right ear on Friday morning, just four hours before the strongest earthquake since the 9-21 disaster rocked Taiwan, and he sent an e-mail to the Central Weather Bureau to warn earthquake specialists there. Tien Huei-shun, an ENT doctor at Taichung's Veterans General Hospital, suggested that Lee's case was similar to the bizarre case of American Charlotte King, and was worth further exploration. farshores.org /n04ering.htm   (609 words)

Quake rocks Taiwan, kills at least 1,500   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) Most of the deaths occurred near the epicenter outside the central city of Taichung, where more than 600 people died in Taichung County, and nearby Nantou county, where some 500 died. Nantou County Executive Peng Pai-hsien appealed for donations of bulldozers, cars, quilts and food, saying that 470 people were killed in the county, and 100,000 people were left homeless. Peng said morgues were full of bodies, and the county needed body bags and freezers in the summer heat. www.shelbystar.com /news1999/_disc4/000003c6.htm   (449 words)

Pescadores Islands - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) They are administered by the Republic of China as Penghu County (澎湖縣) of Taiwan Province. The county flower is a chrysanthemum called "The Immortals" (天人菊). Penghu County comprises of one city and five townships: (in Tongyong Pinyin) www.americancanyon.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Penghu   (332 words)

Taichung Taiwan Jobs Taichung is situated between Taipei and Tainan in northwestern Taiwan. Located on the main north-south highway, Taichung is well-connected by both rail and bus to larger cities such as Taipei and Kaohsiung. Taichung also has a small airport but service is primarily limited to domestic carriers. www.jobmonkey.com /teaching/asia/html/taichung.html   (342 words)

Taichung   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) Taichung (台中, Hanyu Pinyin: Táizhōng, Wade-Giles: T'ai-chung, Taiwanese POJ: Tâi-tiong) is a city located in west-central Taiwan with a population of just over one million people, making it the third largest city on the island, after Taipei and Kaohsiung. The city's name is Chinese for "Central Taiwan." Taichung City (台中市;) is administratively a municipality of Taiwan Province of the Republic of China. Taichung is home to Chung-hsing University (中興大學), Fengchia University (逢甲大學), Providence University (靜宜大學), and Tunghai University (東海大學). www.worldhistory.com /wiki/T/Taichung.htm   (180 words)

The History - ATAYAL - The worldwide voice of the aboriginal tribes of Taiwan November 14, the ninth mayor and county chief elections and the seventh provincial assembly elections are held. January 16, the tenth county (city) council and town/township chief elections are held. December 5, an explosion occurs in the Haishan 1 coal mine in Sanhsia, Taipei county, causing rockfalls. www.atayal.org /History10.asp   (2494 words)

Taichung County -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) Taichung County -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article Its name derives from the (Click link for more info and facts about Wade-Giles) Wade-Giles romanization T`ai-chung and means simply "central Taiwan". Taichung County controls three township-level cities (縣轄市;), five townships (鎮;), and 13 rural townships (鄉;). www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/ta/taichung_county.htm   (189 words)

[No title] Conventional wisdom is that whoever captures the central constituencies of Taichung, Changhua and Nantou, with a combined voting population of 3.1 million, will be the next president. Although it won Taichung back in city and county elections in the same year, it then lost Changhua and Nantou. It featured KMT Taichung Mayor Jason Hu singing the praises of both Mr Chen and Premier Yu Shyi-kun for supporting the city government by setting up the Taichung Science Park. www.taiwansecurity.org /ST/2004/ST-180304.htm   (914 words)

Taiwan revives controversial Bayer project But the long-frustrated project still faced obstacles, as the county government presiding over the project's site in central Taichung vowed to deny construction permits unless the project is approved by a local referendum. "The vote was taken in accordance with all procedural regulations," Liu said.A top Bayer foe, Taichung county magistrate Liao Yung-lai of the Democratic Progressives, said after the vote he would demand a local referendum to decide the project's fate -- and pledged to accept the outcome. The provincial assembly, which meets in Taichung, failed on February 26 to approve the leases, postponing debate to Monday and reviving prospects that the project would collapse. www.expressindia.com /fe/daily/19980307/06655694.html   (493 words)

VCE Monitoring   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) Due to the extensive use of the land along the 326 km route the alignment shows 50 km of tunnels and 244 km of elevated viaducts and bridges. For two large crossings in the Taichung area over a highway inter-change and the FaTzu-River large steel trusses with spans of up to 150 m were launched. In special cases high water flows at typhoon events limited the size of inner piers in the river, or piers had to be replaced by large support frames, where crossing of existing infrastructure made location of direct supports impossible. www.vce.at /fields/railways/rai_hsr.htm   (337 words)

Mondo Taiwan - 10/4-10/10/99 - MONDO EARTHQUAKE - 921 Taiwan Earthquake According to the 10/4/99 edition of the Taiwan News, schools in Taichung and Nantou Counties re-opened Monday. Many schools in these 2 counties suffered severe damage in the 9/21 earthquake, and I'm told it will be some time before schools in Tungshih resume classes. During a ride through different parts of Taichung City Sunday afternoon, I was surprised at the number of tents still erected in nearly every park or playground I saw. www.angelfire.com /mt/mondotaiwan/10041010.html   (1826 words)

Taiwan Counties Even with the revisions, some of the ISO province codes are duplicates of some of the ISO county codes. The Atlas claims to include data from the 1951 and 1953 censuses, but according to the U.S. Census Bureau's compilation, the first modern census of Taiwan was taken in 1956. Chiayi City and Hsinchu City must have been split from their respective counties between ~1953 and ~1970. www.statoids.com /ytw.html   (258 words)

921 Earthquake Right: This whole city block in Taichung was untouched and uninhabited six weeks after the quake due to a lawsuit against the engineers involved in remodeling the building. There were however hundreds of buildings in Taichung which had yellow caution flags on them due to structural problems after the quake. In Eastern Taichung County the fault of the earthquake was visible because the land sank close to ten feet all along the line. www.coping.org /travels/Taiwan/quake.htm   (504 words)

Matsu Festival Posed in glass display cases are puppets of several members of the procession, such as the leaders of the parade that informs locals of Matsu's arrival, a person whose job is to strike a handheld gong, and a messenger with only one shoe. Special traffic arrangements were made April 5 to allow the parade of followers to traverse the narrow streets of Tachia Township and congregate near Chenlan Temple to watch one of the eight ceremonies: worshiping Matsu to ask her for a peaceful procession. The route, normally about 280 kilometers long snaking through Taichung, Changhua, Yunlin and Chiayi counties, was extended to over 322 kilometers long this year to bless even more Matsu temples than ever before. www2.kenyon.edu /Depts/Religion/Fac/Adler/Reln270/Matsu-pilgrimage.htm   (1089 words)

Remarks at a Press Conference Concerning Government Relief Measures for the September 21 Earthquake Victims   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) Relevant county magistrates, city mayors, and heads of rural and urban townships will join its various divisions. On September 26, a total of 20,000 five-kilogram bags of rice were processed and sent to the relief centers of the Nantou and Taichung County governments. Garbage disposal: A total of 19 townships in Nantou, Taichung, Yunlin, Changhua and Miaoli counties have restored their garbage disposal services; an additional 50 garbage trucks have been sent to Taipei, Nantou, and Changhua counties to speed up the removal of garbage. www.taipei.org /whatsnew/quake928.htm   (1895 words)

Mondo Taiwan - 10/11-10/17/99 - MONDO EARTHQUAKE - 921 Taiwan Earthquake The Central Weather Bureau expects a cold front to arrive Friday night, potentially causing temperatures across Taiwan to drop more than 10°C. They expect the cool weather to continue for about a week, and although the chances of rain in Central Taiwan are low, they advised quake victims to stay in prefabricated shelters if possible. The villages of Tashih and Nankang (in Kuohsing Township) and Tsaoling and Changhu (in Kuken Township) are all downstream from 3 new lakes that have formed as a result of landslides caused by the 9/21 earthquake. While Taiwan's geographical center is said to have shifted by 2.5 meters (over 8 feet), Taichung County's Tunghshih Township is said to have moved northwest an incredible 8.5 meters (about 28 feet). www.angelfire.com /mt/mondotaiwan/10111017.html   (1760 words)

Taichung County Government, Taiwan R.O.C.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) Commencement Ceremony of 2005 School Year for Taichung County Indigenous Community College The 2005 school year of Taichung County Indigenous Community College held its commencement ceremony in Dakuan Community Center on September 30. Taichung County Women’s Academy, hosted by the Taichung County Government and jointly conducted by Taichung YMCA, has opened. www.taichung.gov.tw /english   (147 words)

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