Situated in the Dongshan River drainage area in northern Taiwan’s Yilan County, Yilan 52-jia Wetland (宜蘭五十二甲溼地) is one of the 41 National Class Wetlands designated by the Taiwanese government in 2015. A “jia” is a unit of land area (甲) commonly used by Taiwanese people, and one jia is equivalent to 0.9699 hectares (2.396 acres). ...
Both China and Japan are huge manufacturing countries; however, while one relies on bulk manufacturing, the latter has created an image of quality craftsmanship for its products. As a result, given a choice, people across the world tend to prefer products made in Japan over products made in China. So what is the difference between ...
Sun Yi took a lot of risks in helping make Letter from Masanjia, an hour-long documentary about his experiences in China’s most notorious labor camp. Not that Sun was there to watch the film’s premiere screening in Canada recently. He died last year in the Indonesian city of Jakarta where he had sought refuge after ...
According to the 2017 Corruption Perceptions Index, China ranks 77th least corrupt country in a list of 175 countries in the world. China has held this position, in the range of 75th-80th rank, since 2008, with the highest level of corruption seen in 2014 when China ranked 100. China’s best rank so far was in ...
The Tiananmen Square Massacre took place on June 4, 1989. It was the culmination of the Chinese government’s crackdown on protests for political and economic reform in China. In 1989, on the day of the funeral of Hu Yaobang, a martyr for the political cause, thousands of students gathered in Tiananmen Square to demand democratic ...
Corruption in China and the Chinese communist bureaucracy— with its proliferation of greedy officials at all levels — is by far the worst in the world, according to Xiang Ming (a pseudonym), who published an article in the Hong Kong magazine Outpost in April 2018. The amount of dirty money involved is allegedly unbelievably huge. ...
Crowds gathered in semi-autonomous Hong Kong to remember the victims of China’s Tiananmen Square Massacre (the June 4th incident) of 1989 and fight against authoritarian rule. Tens of thousands have been coming together at Victoria Park since the 1990s, with their central message being the democratization of China. The organizers, the Hong Kong Alliance in ...
India and China have a history of trade and friendship that has spanned over centuries. However, a recent Chinese gold rush is threatening all that. Other than a border conflict in 1962, no full-scale war has been fought between these two mighty regions, and this is largely attributed to the Himalayas acting as a wall ...
A former Central Intelligence Agency agent faces life in prison. Thr former CIA officer was found guilty of supplying Chinese agents with classified information. Kevin Mallory, 61, a former CIA officer, was found guilty by a federal jury of espionage charges in a court in northern Virginia on June 8. He was convicted of conspiracy ...
With bikeways cited by several media outlets as one of the world’s most beautiful cycling trails, Sun Moon Lake (日月潭) is one of the Eight Wonders of Taiwan. Covering an area of 5.4 square kilometers (3.3 square miles) at an elevation of 748 meters (2,454 feet) above sea level, Sun Moon Lake is located in ...
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