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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].
In July 2007, Yahoo acquired Wretch for $22 million; this became the biggest acquisition of Yahoo in Taiwan since Kimo. [2] [3] [4] Wretch.cc has been blocked by the internet censorship in the People's Republic of China since August 2007. [5] On 30 August 2013, Yahoo announced Wretch would be closed on 26 December, along with Yahoo! Blog. [6]
Taiwan, [ II][ j] officially the Republic of China ( ROC ), [ I][ k] is a country [ 27] in East Asia. [ n] The main island of Taiwan, also known as Formosa, lies between the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the northeast, and the Philippines to the ...
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 ...
April 30, 2024 at 11:35 PM. By Ben Blanchard. TAIPEI (Reuters) -Taiwan is on alert for China to carry out military exercises after the inauguration of President-elect Lai Ching-te this month, the ...
December 8, 2023 at 7:53 AM. TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan’s Defense Ministry says it spotted a Chinese surveillance balloon in the Taiwan Strait along with a large-scale movement of military ...
The elderly incumbent president of Taiwan loses re-election to a younger female challenger and prepares to hand over the office. As the political transition is underway and inauguration day approaches, a PLANAF Shaanxi Y-8 anti-submarine warfare aircraft goes down in the waters southeast of Taiwan (implied to be an act of surreptitious internal sabotage as part of a false flag operation), [8 ...
In the Late Pleistocene, sea levels were about 140 metres (460 ft) lower than at present, exposing the floor of the shallow Taiwan Strait as a land bridge. [6] A concentration of vertebrate fossils has been found in the channel between the Penghu Islands and Taiwan, including a partial jawbone designated Penghu 1, apparently belonging to a previously unknown species of genus Homo, dated ...