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Taiwan labor minister: Taiwan will recruit small batches of Indian migrant workers from Christian areas of northeastern India where skin color (!) and dietary habits are similar to those in Taiwan. First workers will arrive in 6-12 months.

簽移工MOU 許銘春估初期印度東北小額引進 | 聯合新聞網

台灣與印度16日簽署移工合作備忘錄（MOU），勞動部長許銘春今天表示，距離真正引進沒有1年也要半載，初期評估從印度東北地...

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There is a pernicious myth that the benevolent Chiang Ching-kuo gifted democracy to the Taiwanese shortly before his death in 1988. Here he is announcing the end of martial law to Katharine Graham of the Washington Post. A young Ma Ying-jeou is in the background.

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Taiwan is the only country in the Democracy Index’s top ten that does not have a European cultural heritage. More notable: it is the only one that spent forty years under a military dictatorship that ended only 30 years ago.

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The Taiwanese public has donated NT$210 million (US$7.46 million) in aid to Ukraine in just three days. Yesterday,the government-supervised account at the Disaster Relief Foundation received more than NT$100 million.

賑濟烏克蘭專戶捐款突破2億昨單日增加1億元 - 政治 - 自由時報電子報

外交部透過財團法人賑災基金會開立賑濟烏克蘭專戶，賑災基金會今天上午公布累計捐款突破2億元，達2億11萬元。昨天同一時間收到善款則為1億290萬，一日增加1億元。根據賑災基金會最新統計，賑濟烏克蘭專戶開設3日，其中實體帳戶統計新台幣1億5831萬元；透過挖貝線上多元支付平台則收到4180萬元，累計共2億11萬元。昨天同一時間收到善款則為1億290萬元。

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A Tainan factory owner included return air tickets for six Thai migrant workers along with their New Year bonus. His company, CLC Industrial, makes screw nuts in Tainan's Rende District. This gesture received a very positive reaction online.

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National hero Chen Chu leads Pelosi by the hand at the National Museum of Human Rights in Jingmei.

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@mhar4 A great example of why most musicians are better off sticking to music when they speak in public. Sheesh.

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Here is a deranged ad in today's UDN from the Chiang Kai-shek Party. It calls for extermination of the DPP who are evil elements left over from the Japanese ungrateful for all the ROC has done to develop Taiwan into a prosperous society with a place on the international stage.

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Some great photos from the poorly understood Taiwanese democracy movement in the 1980s. The first image shows how democracy was not the gift of a benevolent dictator. People fought for it and state violence was used extensively to stop them.

台湾民主运动第一手画面史塔西博物馆展出

台湾80年代民主运动风起云涌，人民走上街头，要求解严，最后推翻国民党一党独大的专制统治。摄影师宋隆泉将台湾这段追求民主自由的过程纪录下来，精选16幅照片，即日起在柏林史塔西博物馆展出。

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An eight year-old Labrador named Roger has captured Taiwanese hearts after he found three bodies buried under rock fall in Taroko Gorge. His endearing back story is that he was fired as a drug-sniffing dog for being too frisky and friendly.

獨／當緝毒犬被淘汰高雄搜救犬Roger立功發現罹難者 | 聯合新聞網

高雄搜救犬「Roger」立大功，今天上午跟著特搜隊員李信宏在花蓮砂卡礑步道出任務，在土石掩埋的巨石堆中來回嗅聞後、搖尾巴...

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This is allegedly a photo of David Chou, the man charged in the Orange County shooting. He is pointing to a sentence that says "Swiftly and violently exterminate the [Taiwan] independence demons." The banner also supports Han Kuo-yu in the 2019 KMT presidential primary.

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On 17 April 1954, the nationalist government executes indigenous Taiwanese leaders Losing Watan (Atayal) and Uyonge Yatauyungana (Cou) on charges of espionage. Four other indigenous Taiwanese are also executed.

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Here’s an interesting table of places in Taiwan where mainlanders made up more than 30% of the population in 1965. Da’an District in Taipei is the highest at just over 66%. National Museum of Taiwan History.

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Taiwan's DPP gave China an reasonable and credible assurance back in 1999 when it adopted the Resolution on Taiwan's future: "Taiwan is an independent and sovereign state. Changes in the status quo of independence should be decided by all residents in Taiwan via a referendum."

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The truth is that the Taiwanese suffered and fought for their freedom. Here are two relatives of 228 victims holding pictures of their murdered loved ones.

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The number of women on the Taiwan side of the table is striking.

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Today, I met Deputy Minister Lee of Taiwan to discuss our robust health partnership. We continue to support Taiwan’s participation as an observer at #WHA75 and meaningful participation in the @WHO .

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1645 Dutch map of the Taipei region showing numerous settlements almost all of which have indigenous names. While contemporary records show that a few Han lived in the area, no settlements have Chinese names.

找尋歷史腳步-柏

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現存荷蘭海牙的國家檔案館，有一份1645年後完成的大台北地區地圖。其中可以看到八里和台北，當時已經有許多許多的聚落。地圖的地名表示也都是原住民語根據當時的紀錄，這時淡水和基隆除了本來就有的不同原住民聚落以外，還有荷蘭人，西班牙人，日本人，菲律賓人，還有少數漢人明，這時還沒想到台灣

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Interesting thread. Some comments. First, it's pretty incredible that two pro-China media were able to run stories discrediting Pompeo almost simultaneously based on leaked presumably highly confidential documents from two different Taiwan government agencies.

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Scandals leaking from Pompeo's Taiwan visit: one leak shows that TECRO paid him $150,000 for his visit, the second showing he had a major investment agenda on behalf of a company called Anarock👀

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According to this, Taipei's 1,870 green pedestrian paths were supposed to be a transitional measure to sidewalks when the city started painting them a decade or so ago. But during the past ten years, not one actual sidewalk replaced a pedestrian path.

台北市1987條標線型人行道　改做實體人行道數量為「0」！ | 發燒車訊

台北市有1987條標線型人行道，北市府會從中討選合適道路升級「實體人行道」，但多年來完工數量為「0」，標線型人行道上還充...

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A very substantive interview with Joseph Wu. Great questions, detailed responses. Good to see Indian journalists here telling Taiwan’s story to the subcontinent.

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The relation between China and Taiwan are not very good. China's ambition is not just Taiwan but it has global ambition, says Taiwan’s foreign minister Joseph Wu. #Taiwan #China #News #ITVideo @gauravcsawant

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Japanese lawmaker sheds tears as he pays respects to statue of assassinated Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe in Kaohsiung. The base of statue says ‘Taiwan’s eternal friend’. …

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The law professor who died in yesterday's crane accident wrote this powerful 2019 Joint Declaration to Xi Jin-ping from Representatives of the Indigenous Peoples of Taiwan in Indigenous Historical Justice and Transitional Justice Committee.

‘This is sacred space’: An open letter to Xi Jinping from the indigenous peoples of Taiwan

Taiwan’s unification with the mainland is “inevitable”, China’s President Xi Jinping said on January 2. Xi warned against efforts to promote the island’s independence, adding that Beijing would not…

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A defiant woman protests the black list that the KMT used to deny Taiwanese dissidents abroad entry to Taiwan.

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Most people seemed to enjoy yesterday's national day in Taiwan. In old days when they were North Korean style Stalinist spectacles. Here are Taipei high school students flipping placards to create an image of Chiang Kai-shek at the 1975 festivities.

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A farmer in Nantou found a soaking wet kitten in his field and decided to take it home and care for it. A friend thought it might be an endangered leopard cat. It was. The juvenile leopard cat is now being raised by the Endemic Species Research Institute.

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Nylon Cheng died by self-immolation in 1989 while resisting an arrest warrant for printing a proposal for a new constitution. The arresting officer was Hou You-yi, current New Taipei mayor and possible KMT presidential candidate. This is a replica of Cheng’s charred office.

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Here is Huang Hua in 1991 shouting ‘Long Live Taiwanese Independence’ after his fourth conviction for sedition. Huang spent 23 years in prison.

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After 228, came the long years of white terror recently dramatized in the movie Herstory. Those who survived lived out broken lives.

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Powerful op-ed comparing how much Taiwan's government did to support housing for 49er military dependents while it did nothing for the Taiwanese coal miners who risked (and too often lost) their lives to provide energy for Taiwan's economic miracle.

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Mango flavor potato chips. Exclusively at Fort Zeelandia.

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But starting in 1979, the Taiwanese people fought back despite the constant threat of prison sentences, secret police, and black lists. Here is Huang Hsin-chieh addressing protestors at CKS Memorial Hall. Huang spent seven years in prison for his role in the Kaohsiung Incident.

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Japanese and British maps of Taiwan from the 1890s. The reddish section of the Japanese map on the left is labeled "Savage Territory" --i.e. areas of central and eastern Taiwan not controlled by the Qing.

@Hachisan 哈吉 -- Lán ê bī-lâi lán lâi kuat-tīng --

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#認識台灣 #台灣歷史 1. 1895年明治台灣地圖 - 非常詳細，日本漢字，很多老地名 (打狗 2. 1896年蘇格蘭地理雜誌 - 英文地名，大部分台語，原住民語發音

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Nylon Cheng proclaiming that ‘Taiwanese Independence is not a crime’. This was a seditious offense that carried a minimum sentence of seven years.

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Graves of executed 228 victims in Liuzhangli, Taipei. Still there like this today.

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Taiwan now has more than 29,100 foreign national permanent residents (PR). The number of PRs has basically doubled in the past five years with 62 percent of that increase coming since the start of the pandemic.

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The Taiwan government is trying to hire senior cybersecurity analysts for NT$58,000 per month plus a 1.5 month bonus. PhDs are required. The low salary is required by pay grade rules. Inflexibility and parsimony plague the Taiwanese government.

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Cheng’s wife and daughter seeing their husband and father for the last time. The banner draped on his coffin says ‘Movement for a New Nation’.

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In the ten years since Taiwan's Sunflower Movement, Taiwan's per capita GDP has increased by 41%, its exports have increased by 35%, and its investments in China have decreased by 70%. Clearly economic integration with China was not Taiwan's only choice.

太陽花運動十週年》台灣走向世界磁吸外資大增 - 政治 - 自由時報電子報

太陽花學運十週年，我國產業投資從重押中國轉為走向世界，經濟成績也反映在台股屢創新高。近幾年在半導體、離岸風電等產業加持下，外資加碼來台投資，包括半導體設備商三巨頭去年全到齊，外資來台投資屢創新高，凸顯台灣在國際供應鏈的關鍵地位；與此同時，我國對中國投資則大幅下降，去年對中投資金額更是二○一○年高峰的腰斬再腰斬。去年對中投資占比降至11.4％

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The idea that Taiwan can assure China by teaching its students Taiwanese history as part of Chinese history is so ludicrous that it is beneath contempt.

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Taiwan has finally created a path for migrant workers to become foreign professionals and later permanent residents. The key salary requirements are lower than those proposed before. This path will still be long and narrow, but it is a huge step forward.

Cabinet approves permanent residency plan for migrant workers, foreign graduates - Focus Taiwan

The Cabinet on Thursday approved a proposal to provide a pathway to permanent residency in Taiwan for migrant workers and also for foreign students who earn an associate degree in the country.

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Last night was bad for Taiwanese young Sunflower progressives. Miao Po-ya, Wu Cheng, Justin Wu, and Tseng Po-yu all lost. It was a very good night for local factions/land interests. Lo Ming-tsai, Chang Chih-lun, Yen Kuan-heng, Ma Wen-chun, and Fu Kun-chi all won handily.

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Taiwan's population declines by 4,371 in August 2020. Decline since January is almost 30,000. There are only about 20,000 permanent residents in Taiwan. Let some of them become citizens without renouncing original nationality to set off decline.

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Taiwan's Constitutional Court is looking for an English Secretary. Monthly salary: BA NT$46,692 MA NT$50,842 PhD: NT$54,992

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Wanchin Basilica of the Immaculate Conception in rural eastern Pingtung is probably Taiwan’s oldest surviving church and Taiwan’s first basilica.

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Peter Huang in 1970 after attempted assassination of Chiang Ching-Kuo in New York. ‘Let me stand up like a Taiwanese’.

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My view is that this was likely a coordinated, deliberate effort to discredit Pompeo and his statements about Taiwan and more generally is part of the 'be suspicious of America' (疑美論) that the pro-China media has been pushing recently with some success.

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Nurses at a Taiwanese postpartum center protect newborn infants during the earthquake. Those of us who were here 25 years ago for the Jiji earthquake will remember the great resilience Taiwanese people demonstrated then. Today we see the same.

7.2強震瞬間護理師捨命護嬰! 「張臂守新生兒」超專業SOP獲讚｜TVBS新聞@TVBSNEWS01

影音授權：Threads／i.linjeng#地震#強震#餘震#大地震#花蓮地震#地震災情#災情#台灣地震#全台大地震#地震規模#地震震度#宜蘭地震#地震新聞#台北地震#嘉義地震#地牛#地震概念股#地震險#地震最新#大眾運輸#地震畫面#中央氣象署#地震報告#地震監測#0403大地震#921大地震#地震倒塌#地震災...

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Taipei City has announced that all city residents who test positive for Covid but have mild or no symptoms, can quarantine at home starting today.

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Second, Pompeo's speaking fee was not outrageous by the standards of American politicians profiteering off former high office. Bill Clinton was paid US$750,000 in 2010 for a speech that generally endorsed the Ma administration's policies toward China.

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Taiwan's national archives publishes Chiang Ching-kuo's diaries 1970-1979. They are silent about democratization and depict a hardworking paranoid, insomniac dictator plagued by nighmares. He disliked democracy and family problems troubled him.

蔣經國日記出版學者分析公務家務讓他身心俱疲、唯「這件事」使他快樂 | 聯合新聞網

國史館今天下午舉行蔣經國日記新書發表會，第一階段出版的日記，為1970至1979年。出席學者表示，從日記對中壢事件、美麗...

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Sunflower Movement 2014 :)

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Rural Taiwan has lots of interesting businesses. This truck slowly cruises the country roads in eastern Pingtung with a loudspeaker saying that they buy broken scooters. Announcement in Taiwanese only.

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A brilliant article in @tw_reporter_org about Polish sailors held in Taiwan during the 1950s. It shows that Indigenous singer Rosemary Kao (高菊花) probably told the truth when she said that the KMT forced her to sleep with a Polish communist.

林蔚昀／酒色、絕食與軍事化之島──冷戰下被劫持波蘭船員眼中的台灣 - 報導者 The Reporter

1950年代，在共產與西方陣營對壘的國際情勢下，兩艘來自波蘭的輪船被中華民國政府劫持。波蘭船員們被扣留在台灣島上，國民黨想讓他們看見「自由世界」的進步，進而「投奔自由」；但船員們看見的卻是一座「被貧窮、飢餓和恐怖統御」的島嶼⋯⋯

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In 1936, the Republic of China's legislature passed a draft constitution. Article 4 enumerated the provinces that constituted the 'enduring' (固有) national territory by name. Taiwan is not one of them.

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Taiwan Constitutional Court holds that it is unconstitutional to deny legal status as an Indigenous person to a child from a marriage between an Indigenous person and a non-Indigenous person based on the child's surname or name.

Constitutional Court strikes down legal clause on Indigenous status - Focus Taiwan

A legal provision that grants Indigenous status to individuals with one Indigenous and one non-Indigenous parent based strictly on their name has been declared unconstitutional by Taiwan's Constitu...

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China and everyone else in the world knows that Taiwan poses no threat to China. Asking Taiwan to give further assurances that would contradict and repress the democratic will of some of its people is appeasement.

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The translation of a Popeye cartoon that landed historian Bo Yang in jail for ten years. The handwritten note below explains that the cartoon insinuates that Chiang Kai-shel is Popeye and SWEE PEA is Chiang Ching-kuo. The desert island is Taiwan where they are exiled.

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Same-sex marriage in Taiwan has come a long way. Headline: Ko doesn't want to be forced into marriage. Hou has been waiting for a long time.

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Activist breaks through police lines at Chiayi train station to pay respects to those publicly executed there in 1947. Public commemoration of 2-28 was strictly prohibited until early 1990s.

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Taiwan Hotel Industry: We can't find enough workers. Let us hire migrant workers. Ministry of Labor: Raise your pay and hire Taiwanese workers. Most of your shortage is people to clean rooms. The starting salary is less than NT$26,000/month (US$875).

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White terror execution grounds in Xindian.

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So Biden's remarks at West Point that the US is standing up for peace and security in the Taiwan Strait and that he has always been willing to use force to protect allies and core interests are front page news in Taiwan. Doesn't seem to be news in US.

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Water buffalo chases cyclist on New Taipei bike path.

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The Taiwanese government is thinking about including permanent residents and diplomats in the next round of NT$5,000 stimulus vouchers. Nothing decided yet. Think of the reputational benefits and consumption impact if migrant workers were included.

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This otherwise excellent article repeats a common view that Taiwan's Constitution "recognizes the authorities in Taipei as the legitimate government representing not just Taiwan, but also mainland China.." This is misleading.

China is subtly increasing military pressure on Taiwan. Here's how

China has been sending ships and planes to encircle Taiwan and mounting more sophisticated military drills simulating a blockade of the island.

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Grandfather and grandson duo exemplify Taiwan's remarkable honesty by returning a lost wallet. Inside: an Indonesian migrant worker's ID, ATM card, and NT$23,000 ($730) in cash. The Taiwan I know is extremely safe and most people do the right thing.

后里祖孫拾金不昧印尼移工2萬3千多元失而復得 | 聯合新聞網

一名印尼籍移工日前到台中后里遊玩，騎租賃自行車行經麗寶Outlet時不慎遺落皮夾，一對祖孫路過發現，送交台中市警局大甲分...

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The Taiwan government says that it is PLANNING (擬) to allow Hong Kong professionals with a work permit to apply for permanent residence (定居) after various periods of residence. This is potentially a game changer for immigrants from Hong Kong.

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1977 uprising in Zhongli after election fraud by KMT.

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On 17 April 1895, China "cedes to Japan in perpetuity and full sovereignty" Taiwan and the Pescadores under the Treaty of Shimonoseki after China loses the First Sino-Japanese War in Korea. The Great Qing's 200 years of rule over western and northern Taiwan ends.

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@RepNancyMace Thank you for taking the time to visit Taiwan. As an American who has lived here for nearly 30 years, I am deeply encouraged by the visit of this delegation. Taiwan, its democracy, and its freedom are not a Republican or Democratic issue. They are American issues.

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3 years

The Taiwan Transitional Justice Committee has released its plan to transform the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial in Taipei into a historical park for reflection on the island's authoritarian past. The top priority is removal of Chiang's 21 metric ton statue.

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3 years

In 2020, foreign and Taiwanese businesses invested over US$172 billion (24% of GDP) in Taiwan. That figure is expected to increase to US$211 billion (almost 27% of GDP) this year. That would be the highest rate of investment in 21 years.

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More unfair treatment of Taiwanese by the United Nations. I used to feel that this was just petty nonsense--unfortunate but not important. I changed my mind. It is part of PRC's global effort to deny the existence of Taiwan everywhere and at all times.

UN asks Taiwanese correspondents for Chinese passports - Taipei Times

Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan

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3 years

六品 on Lishui St. has stopped indoor dining and is offering 8% discounts on take out orders. If you live in the Yongkang St. area consider supporting them. They are making the right decision but it must be devastating to their business and employees.

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@shu_wang_gong

2 years

TW coffee shops/cafes 2011: 1,592 TW coffee shops/cafes: 2021: 4,096 TW tea/beverage shops 2011: about 11,500 TW tea/beverage shops 2021: about 22,000

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@shu_wang_gong

1 year

Concerned citizens have recently been taking out half page ads about pedestrian safety. This one was in the front page of the Liberty Times yesterday.

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@shu_wang_gong

6 months

These walls documenting the outpouring of support Taipei's Hoping Hospital received during the pandemic are very moving. This was the SARS hospital back in 2004. A testament to Taiwanese resilience and the strength of civil society here.

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3 months

Very good to see DPP legislator @kuantingvision and @Kolas_Yotaka leading on the Indian migrant worker issue today. Kuan Ting says that Taiwan's recruitment of migrant workers absolutely cannot be based on race or skin color.

許銘春脫口印度移工「膚色相近」挨轟失言綠委：影響外交聲譽

台灣與印度簽署勞務合作備忘錄（MOU），代表未來移工來源將增加印度。勞動部長許銘春近日接受Yahoo TV《齊有此理》專訪時，脫口因「膚色、飲食習慣相近」等原因引進，遭批評失言。對此，民進黨立委陳冠廷今（3/4）表達譴責，並強調引進外籍勞工的標準，絕不可因種族或膚色，這對台灣的外交聲譽有很大的影響。

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@shu_wang_gong

3 years

Here is a perfect illustration of how the Party-State system in Taiwan functioned under the KMT. On the right is the KMT’s local branch in Fangliao, Pingtung. On the left is City Hall.

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Indigenous Taiwanese no longer have to register a name in Chinese script and their indigenous names can appear without Chinese on ID cards. They can also change their names as many times as needed for cultural reasons. ．

Amendments to allow IDs with indigenous name only - Taipei Times

Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan

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2 months

Terry Tang becomes LA Times editor. Taiwanese-Americans make Taiwan stronger because they can be dual citizens. Taiwan should allow its long-term foreign residents to do the same for the same reason. It's common sense.

Los Angeles Times Officially Names Terry Tang Its Executive Editor

Taking the helm during a period of intense turbulence in media and at the Times itself, Tang is now formally the first woman to lead the paper's newsroom.

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2 years

Taiwanese foreign volunteer Tseng Sheng-kuang has been killed in action in Ukraine. May he rest in peace. Not surprisingly, he was reportedly an indigenous Taiwanese (Amis). Ind. Taiwanese are 8% of Taiwan professional soldiers and 60% of special forces.

Hualien man becomes 1st Taiwanese combatant to die in Ukraine war - Focus Taiwan

Tseng Sheng-kuang (曾聖光), a 25-year-old member of the International Legion of Ukraine's territorial defense forces, was reportedly killed in action Wednesday, becoming the first Taiwanese combatant to...

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@shu_wang_gong

2 years

There is a perfect word in Chinese that is being used to describe the Taiwanese mood in reaction to China’s military exercises: 淡定. Pronounced ‘dàndìng’, it can be translated as ‘unperturbed’.

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@shu_wang_gong

3 years

Taiwan's National Chengchi University announced the digitalization of 300,000 items in its collection of KMT party records. Most of the records are from 1928 to 1949.

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2 months

Migran worker caretaker protects bedridden patient during yesterday's earthquake.

想縮入被窩的青

@HaiRuore

2 months

喔，這個印尼看護瑪亞在地震時肉身護住七旬的阿嬤，他真是天使❤️

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The pro-Beijing media in Taiwan is pushing hard for the concept of the Chinese people/nation (zhonghua minzu) to replace the 1992 Consensus and especially its one China formulation. Announced by Xi at meeting with Ma. Repeated to LY caucus by Wang.

中華民族論 520通關密語 - 時論廣場

今年520大家都在猜測準總統賴清德就職演說裡，會說出什麼改變兩岸關係，或是翻轉這個地球的話語，而不只是遵循蔡英文路線，繼續過去8年那種前進不得，後退不了的打泥巴仗遊戲。尤其是大陸已經為賴清德留下一盞明燈，

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@shu_wang_gong

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Oh, wow! I completely missed the deep dive @wordsfromtaiwan took into Hsiao Bi-khim's family background. This is absolutely required reading. Her late father said of her: 雖然是徹底的「happa」（混血兒），美琴對台灣意識認同卻不比「純」台灣人弱。

Stateswoman: Bi-khim Hsiao, the reverend’s daughter who picked her own name (2/3)

Her given English name was a rather common one in the United States, but “Bi-khim” much less so.

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@shu_wang_gong

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Another Taiwanese American making us proud. His father Wu Ming-ta was from Tainan and graduated from NTU medical school. He served as the chairman of the Toronto branch of the World United Formosans for Independence in the 1970s.

Christiane Amanpour

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“It’s such an obvious propaganda tool.” @Columbia professor and fmr Biden antitrust architect Tim Wu @superwuster says the West needs to stop playing “the sucker” on TikTok, and take Chinese control over its communication platforms more seriously.

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Dutch missionary Robertus Junius baptizing the Sirayas. Probably 1630s. The painting will be shown for the first time in Taiwan as part of the ‘Transcending 1624’ exhibition at the National Museum of Taiwanese History in Tainan.

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3 years

Taiwan's National Human Rights Commission has decided to draft a report on foreign migrant workers in Taiwan's fishing industry based on six Control Yuan investigations.

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This gets reported on every year but is still remarkable. Elvira La Rosa Rojas is reportedly the only foreign temple caretaker in Taiwan. After 30 years, she can interpret fortune slips and perform basic Taoist rituals (shoujing) in Taiwanese.

全台唯一外籍廟婆！收驚解籤樣樣通　認證「住台灣很安全」 | ETtoday地方新聞 | ETtoday新聞雲

彰化大城鄉萬安宮有一名全台灣唯一外籍廟婆羅美智，不僅有30多年的管理廟宇資歷，連解籤詩、收驚、廟宇慶典儀式也樣樣精通。今年全世界受到疫情影響，她說「住在台灣真的很安全」，擔憂她的國家智利受到病毒威脅，更是經常在神明面前祈求，遠在家鄉的老父母身體健康平安。

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Taiwan martial law era presidential directive to students on how to walk. Keep your head up, stick your chest out, synchronize your steps shoulder to shoulder with a composed expression. No eating snacks, putting arm over shoulder or back slapping. See the two bad boys in back.

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I highly recommend 'Taiwan Unbound' by Rex How. His thesis is that the profound changes we see in Taiwan are caused not by blue and green identity politics, but rather a multi-generational values conflict between those born before and after martial law.

Taiwan Unbound: A New Chapter

● Over the course of eight years, Rex How has ob…

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The Transitional Justice Committee has vacated the 1970 convictions of the Taiyuan 5 for sedition. They were executed in May 1970 for escaping from prison with a plan to seize weapons and capture a radio station to broadcast a Declaration of Independence.

促轉會撤銷泰源事件5烈士有罪判決江炳興妹妹泣不成聲 - 政治 - 自由時報電子報

發生在1970年的泰源事件，關押在台東泰源監獄的江炳興、鄭金河、詹天增、謝東榮及陳良等人，帶著「台灣獨立宣言」與文告，計畫奪取警衛的槍彈，釋放監犯，向世界宣告台灣獨立，卻被國民黨執政當局認定是叛亂，意圖以暴動方法顛覆政府而判處死刑，促轉會今天宣布公告撤銷江炳興等泰源事件5烈士的有罪判決。相關家屬今天上午出席「促轉會平復泰源事件司法不法記者會」，其中江炳興的妹妺江月瑋當場泣不成聲，由於過度悲痛...

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The number of foreign national permanent residents in Taiwan increased by 13% in 2023 to 35,731. Over the last decade, there has been a 279% increase in permanent residents. There were just 9,417 PRs at the end of 2013.

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Poll shows that 64% of Taiwanese use their mother language (Taiwanese, Hakka etc) regularly in daily life. This figure goes up to 82% in Yunlin, Chiayi, and Tainan. But usage declines with age and nearly 70% worry that mother tongues are in danger.

愈年輕愈不常講母語消失中…近7成民眾認同 | 聯合新聞網

黃昆輝教授教育基金會進行台灣母語教育民意調查，民調小組委員馮清皇指出，調查顯示，近七成民眾認為台灣各族群的母語正面臨消失...

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Taiwan is finally going to start regulating scooter helmets and seats for children. Child traffic fatalities 12 and under have increased by 20% in the last 15 years. Great photo shows how parents take kids to school by scooter. It often isn't safe to walk.

回響／兒童機車座椅、安全帽將納管 | 聯合新聞網

本報日前獨家揭露，零到十二歲兒童運輸事故死傷人數在十五年內上升兩成，兒童用機車座椅及安全帽無法可管，引發關注。交通部長王...

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@vidaclinic Most migrant workers in Taiwan make between USD 650 to 1,000/month. The median Taiwanese salary is a little under USD2,000/month.

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A savagely excoriating response to Lung Ying-tai's recent essay in the New York Times. The author see Lung as the beneficiary of an intellectual and cultural caste system who once enjoyed the privilege to dissent under martial law.

管仁健觀點》龍應台的朋友為何現在才反目？ | 政治 | Newtalk新聞

家門口來了一群強盜，舞刀弄槍在叫囂，揚言這一家自古以來就是屬於強盜這一夥的。有個住在這一家裡面卻聲稱我們大家都是屬於強盜那一族的大作家，投書英文報紙認為家裡一派主張應戰，強硬捍衛家產；另一派主張求和，不要刺激強盜。這樣強盜還沒來，家裡就開始先分裂成了兩邊。大作家用英文發表的投書，似乎立場是在勸和，但

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In breaking Taiwan news, 10 baby ducks mistake a hen for their mother and run off with her. Mother duck chases them but cannot call them back. The heart grows cold at the sight of these unfilial children!

10隻小鴨「認錯娘」全跟母雞跑了！鴨媽媽狂追猛叫喚不回超心寒：一群不肖子 | 聯合新聞網

對母親而言孩子是自己的心肝骨肉，總是希望能留在身邊自己帶大。然而有網友就在社團分享一段畫面，是鴨媽媽眼看自己的小鴨快跟別人跑走，急得想跟對方要回自己的孩子。

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