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Tuesday, February 09, 2010 5:47 PM

Taitung (Taiwan)

Type: City

Name: Taitung (Taiwan)

Country: Taiwan

Latitude: 22.76

Longitude: 121.139999

population: 109,353

First Reported 02/07/2010 - Updated 02/07/2010 - 6 Documents (in Environment)

Taiwan hit by 6.3-magnitude earthquake

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – A magnitude-6.3 earthquake struck off the east coast Sunday, but no damage or injuries were immediately reported. The tremor struck under the ocean, 165.7 kilometers southeast of the Hualien City earthquake observation center, at ... [Taiwan News Online - 02/07/2010]

Entities: Earthquake, Taiwan, Nantou (Taiwan)

First Reported 02/08/2010 - Updated 02/08/2010 - 1 Documents (in New Business)

16% of farm products have excessive insecticide

TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Around 16 percent of agricultural products for sale in domestic retail markets conntin excessive insecticide residuals, according to findings of an island-wide examination program released yesterday by the Cabinet-level Department of ... [China Post - 02/08/2010]

Entities: Insecticide, Taiwan, Acetamiprid, Fipronil, Taipei

First Reported 02/07/2010 - Updated 02/07/2010 - 1 Documents

Ma: New districts to help promote competitiveness

TAIPEI, Taiwan -- President Ma Ying-jeou reiterated Saturday that a move to change the administrative district map is being taken to promote Taiwan's competitiveness. As leader of the country, Ma said at a gathering in Taoyuan County attended by the mayors ... [China Post - 02/07/2010]

Entities: Taoyuan, Taichung, Kaohsiung, Taitung (Taiwan)

First Reported 4 hours ago - Updated 4 hours ago - 1 Documents (in Politics)

Over NT$21 billion for 2010 railway construction: CEPD

Taipei, Feb. 9 (CNA) The government is slated to earmark NT$21.5 billion (US$671.87 million) this year for several railway construction projects around the country, exceeding the NT$18 billion set aside for road construction, the Cabinet-level Council ... [Taiwan News Online - 4 hours ago]

Entities: Taitung (Taiwan), Taiwan, Land Development

First Reported 02/02/2010 - Updated 02/02/2010 - 1 Documents

Extra trains to run for New Year: MOTC

9:54 am TWN, news staff TAIPEI, Taiwan -- The nation's top transportation official yesterday allayed disgruntled railway passengers, assuring that trains will be running overtime to meet heightened demand on an eastern line of the Taiwan Railway Administration ... [China Post - 02/02/2010]

Entities: Taitung (Taiwan), Taipei, Pingtung (Taiwan), Taiwan, Chiang Kai-shek

First Reported 02/02/2010 - Updated 02/02/2010 - 1 Documents

Flavanone and Diphenylpropane Glycosides and Glycosidic Acyl Esters from Viscum articulatum

Division of Herbal Drugs and Natural Products, National Research Institute of Chinese Medicine, Taipei 112, Taiwan, Republic of China, School of Pharmacy, Taipei Medical University, Taipei 110, Taiwan, Republic of China, Institute of Life Science, National ... [Journal of Natural Products - 02/02/2010]

Entities: Viscum, Glycosides, Taiwan, Taitung (Taiwan)

First Reported 01/11/2010 - Updated 01/11/2010 - 2 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)

Judicial Yuan suspends High Court judge

The Judicial Yuan yesterday said it would immediately suspend a High Court judge who was photographed meeting former Taitung County commissioner Wu Chun-li (吳俊立) while his case is under review. Wu was charged with corruption while serving as a Taitung ... [Taipei Times Online - 01/11/2010]

Entities: High Court Judge, Judicial, Taitung (Taiwan)

First Reported 01/10/2010 - Updated 01/10/2010 - 2 Documents (in Politics)

Ma warned he is facing defeat

Mr Ma's Kuomintang (KMT) party was beaten Saturday by the pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) on Saturday in bye-elections in Taoyuan, Taichung and Taitung counties. -- PHOTO: REUTERS TAIPEI - TAIWAN'S press warned beleaguered leader Ma ... [Straits Times - 01/10/2010]

Entities: Taitung (Taiwan), Taoyuan, Chinese Nationalist Party, Democratic Progressive Party (TW), Taichung

First Reported 01/10/2010 - Updated 01/10/2010 - 2 Documents (in Politics)

Taiwan's press warns Ma he is facing defeat

TAIPEI, Jan 10 (AFP) -- Taiwan's press warned beleaguered leader Ma Ying-jeou Sunday he could face a humiliating defeat in the 2012 presidential election following a series of losses in local polls. Ma's Kuomintang (KMT) party was beaten Saturday by the ... [My Sinchew - 01/10/2010]

Entities: Taiwan, Taitung (Taiwan), Taoyuan, Chinese Nationalist Party

First Reported 01/28/2010 - Updated 01/28/2010 - 1 Documents (in Politics)

9:42 am TWN, news staff TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Holiday railway tickets for the East-link Line and South-link Line went on sale early morning yesterday. Within five hours, more than 230,000 seats have been grabbed. Most of the sold-out seats are for the popular ... [China Post - 01/28/2010]

Entities: Taitung (Taiwan), Taipei, Kaohsiung

First Reported 01/28/2010 - Updated 01/28/2010 - 1 Documents

More than 4 Million Visitors to Taiwan in 2009

Through 2008 and 2009 the Taiwan Tourism Bureau staged a popular “Million Visitors” promotion, presenting special gifts to the 1, 2, 3 and 4 millionth visitor in both years. On December 5, the number of visitors for 2009 hit the magic four million mark. ... [MyEGov Taiwan - 01/28/2010]

Entities: Taiwan, Tourism, EVA Airways Corp, Osaka Prefecture, Taitung (Taiwan)

First Reported 01/24/2010 - Updated 01/24/2010 - 1 Documents

Talk of the day -- News Digest of local media -- stock markets

Media about Taiwan Local News Taipei County Taipei City Keelung City Yilan County Taoyuan County Hsinchu County Hsinchu City Miaoli County Taichung County Taichung City Changhua County Nantou County Yunlin County Chiayi County Chiayi City Tainan County ... [Philippine Times - 01/24/2010]

Entities: Chiayi (Taiwan), Tainan, Hsinchu, Kaohsiung, Taichung

Quotes

A failure to reform and loss of public trust were the main reasons the KMT was defeated in 1949 and 2000, analysts said. "Back then [in 1949], one major reason for the KMT to lose to the mainland was because many people were upset by its corruption and turned to the CCP" said George Tsai Wei, a politicalpolitical science professor at Chinese Cultural University

Voter apathy may cost KMT seats [South China Morning Post - 02/06/2010]

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Earthquake off Hualien coast [MyEGov Taiwan - 02/07/2010]
No damage reported yet of Taiwan earthquake [SINA - 02/07/2010]
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Ma: New districts to help promote competitiveness [China Post - 02/07/2010]
Voter apathy may cost KMT seats [South China Morning Post - 02/06/2010]
Changing administration districts map promotes ... [Taiwan News Online - 02/06/2010]
Changing administration districts promotes comp... [MyEGov Taiwan - 02/06/2010]
Only 13% using Taiwan's public transport [China Post - 02/05/2010]
Taipei described as world's 'most underrated city' [China Post - 02/04/2010]
Looking at life from a new angle [CHINAdaily - 02/04/2010]
Three endemic tree species found to have high C... [MyEGov Taiwan - 02/03/2010]
MOTC aims for smoother Taipei to Yilan traffic [China Post - 02/03/2010]
Flavanone and Diphenylpropane Glycosides and Gl... [Journal of Natural Products - 02/02/2010]
Extra trains to run for New Year: MOTC [China Post - 02/02/2010]
Taiwan's bubbles rise to top [CHINAdaily - 02/02/2010]
Aborigines fight $$special zones$$ at Control Yuan [Taipei Times Online - 01/29/2010]
More than 4 Million Visitors to Taiwan in 2009 [MyEGov Taiwan - 01/28/2010]
KMT reshuffles branch directors ahead of polls [MyEGov Taiwan - 01/28/2010]
Most popular New Year rail seats for East, Sout... [China Post - 01/28/2010]
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Ma kicks off KMT legislative by-election campaigns [China Post - 01/23/2010]
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Taiwan Legislature passes Local Government Act ... [Taiwan News Online - 01/18/2010]
Taiwan Legislature meets to decide on Local Gov... [Taiwan News Online - 01/18/2010]

Blogs

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Taiwan: How the Puyuma people started Year 2010 [Global Voices Online - 01/13/2010] The Puyuma tribe is one of the indigenous groups in Taitung County along Taiwan’s East Coast. Nanwang, as the leading village in the tribe, holds the Monkey Ceremony ...
Agriculture culture in the paddy, daddy! [Oddly Enough - 11/10/2009] Welcome back to our regular feature, Stuff Maybe we Should Have Explained in the Caption, but Didn’t. Our full caption for this photo, which you may read ...
Taiwan: Stories of the survivors from Typhoon M... [Global Voices Online - 08/25/2009] 有一個古老的傳說人死後，變成了天上的星星，眷顧著留戀著他所深愛的人們 ... legend says that we will become stars after death so ...