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 The World Factbook 2004 -- Taiwan
Throughout this period, the island prospered and became one of East Asia's economic "Tigers." The dominant political issues continue to be the relationship between Taiwan and China - specifically the question of eventual unification - as well as domestic political and economic reform.
Taiwan has a dynamic capitalist economy with gradually decreasing guidance of investment and foreign trade by government authorities.
While Taiwan is a major investor throughout Southeast Asia, China has become the largest destination for investment and has overtaken the US to become Taiwan's largest export market.
www.brainyatlas.com /geos/tw.html   (1258 words)

  
 EXPENDITURE - Online Information article about EXPENDITURE
Immediately after the war, the diet approved a cabinet proposal for the nationalization of 17 private railways, at a cost of 500,000,000 yen, and this brought the state's debts to 2,776,000,000 yen in all.
FORMOSA (called Taiwan by the Chinese, and following them by the Japanese, into whose possession it came after their war with China in 1895)
Furniture and fittings 1,o8o,00o,000 Live stock 109,000,000 Railways, telegraphs and telephones.
encyclopedia.jrank.org /EUD_FAT/EXPENDITURE.html   (7463 words)

  
 Japan
U.S., China, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Indonesia (2003).
After a brief war with China in 1894–1895, Japan acquired Formosa (Taiwan), the Pescadores Islands, and part of southern Manchuria.
Southern Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands reverted to the USSR, and Formosa (Taiwan) and Manchuria to China.
www.factmonster.com /ipa/A0107666.html   (1510 words)

  
 New Stock   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Hillman T and Cole B: South for the Sunshine, southern railway publicity and posters 1923 to 1947 Capital Transport 1999 1st 64pp Ills.
Judge C W: The Elan Valley Railway-The Railway of The Birmingham Corporation Waterworks.
Potts C R: Railways in and Around Newton Abbot and Torbay (Scenes from the past 19) Foxline 1993 1st 108pp ills.
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 Taiwan, Map and Flag
Following the Communist victory on the mainland in 1949, 2 million Nationalists fled to Taiwan and established a government using the 1947 constitution drawn up for all of China.
Judicial Yuan (justices appointed by the president with consent of the National Assembly; note - beginning in 2003, justices will be appointed by the president with consent of the Legislative Yuan)
note: there also are 1,255 km of 1.067-m gauge routes belonging to the Taiwan Sugar Corporation and to the Taiwan Forestry Bureau used to haul products and limited numbers of passengers (2002)
www.greatestcities.com /Asia/Taiwan.html   (1276 words)

  
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Martin Schnitzer (1987)argues that mergers afford a way of protecting against decline, for if a firm can gain control over competing plants, it has a better opportunity to fix prices and control output.
The first great wave of mergers occurred between 1887 and 1904; these mergers took place in such industries as petroleum, iron and steel, copper, sugar, lead, and salt, and their common feature was the drive toward
Massive expansion of the world market following the growing industrialization and extension of railway construction in the whole of Europe and North America as a result of the 1848 Revolution.
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 Japan Facts
Exports - partners: US 28.8%, China 9.6%, South Korea 6.9%, Taiwan 6.2%, Hong Kong 6.1% (2002)
Television broadcast stations: 211 plus 7,341 repeaters note: in addition, US Forces are served by 3 TV stations and 2 TV cable services (1999)
Railways: total: 23,168 km (15,995 km electrified) standard gauge: 3,204 km 1.435-m gauge (3,204 km electrified) narrow gauge: 77 km 1.372-m gauge
www.epoi.com /japan_facts.html   (2407 words)

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