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Taiwan's long colonial and immigration history brought in several languages such as Dutch, Spanish, Hokkien, Hakka, Japanese, and Mandarin. Due to the former Japanese occupation of the island, the Japanese language has influenced the languages of Taiwan, particularly in terms of vocabulary, with many loanwords coming from Japanese.
October 2001. Current status. Active. Yahoo! Kimo ( Chinese: Yahoo!奇摩) is the Taiwanese version of Yahoo!, a web services provider based in the United States. In February 2001, Yahoo! Inc. acquired Kimo [ zh], a Taiwanese search engine, and in October 2001, Yahoo! Kimo was launched as the merger of Kimo with Yahoo! Taiwan [ zh].
The 2024 Kinmen Chinese motorboat capsizing incident, [a] also called the 2/14 Kinmen Incident, took place on 14 February 2024, when a boat of the 9th Brigade of the Taiwanese Coast Guard Administration (CGA) collided with a Chinese motorboat which was trespassing and illegally fishing in the waters of Kinmen, Fuchien Province, Taiwan (ROC).
May 23, 2024 at 3:30 PM. By Bernard Orr and Yimou Lee. BEIJING/TAIPEI (Reuters) -China launched "punishment" drills around Taiwan on Thursday in what it said was a response to "separatist acts ...
Taiwanese Mandarin, frequently referred to as Guoyu ( Chinese: 國語; pinyin: Guóyǔ; lit. 'national language') or Huayu ( 華語; Huáyǔ; 'Chinese language'), is the variety of Mandarin Chinese spoken in Taiwan. A large majority of the Taiwanese population is fluent in Mandarin, though many also speak a variety of Min Chinese known as ...
Tâi-lô. Tshuà Ing-bûn. Tsai Ing-wen ( Chinese: 蔡英文; born 31 August 1956) is a Taiwanese politician who served as the 7th president of the Republic of China ( Taiwan) from 2016 to 2024, and was the first woman to hold that position. [ 1] A member of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), she intermittently served as chair of the DPP ...
The Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan ( Chinese: 臺灣 閩南語 常用詞 辭典; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tâi-oân Bân-lâm-gí Siông-iōng-sû Sû-tián) is a dictionary of Taiwanese Hokkien (including Written Hokkien) commissioned by the Ministry of Education of Taiwan. [ 1] The dictionary uses the Taiwanese Romanization System (based ...
Victor Gao (Chinese: 高志凯; pinyin: Gāo Zhìkǎi; born 1962) is a Chinese lawyer and academic.He is the Vice President of the Beijing based Center for China and Globalization (CCG), and Chair Professor of Soochow University, and a member of the Beijing Municipal Committee of the Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang. [1]