Facing the Pacific Ocean and the Taiwan Strait to the northeast, Jinshan (金山) is a district of New Taipei City in northern Taiwan. With an area of around 50 km2 (19 mi2), Jinshan is a small recreational heaven surrounded on three sides by mountains. Please watch the following video of the Jinshan District, New Taipei City, Taiwan. ...
During Ms. Chen’s tour of Japan in October 2018, she was stung by a bee and ended up requiring heart transplant surgery. Being severely allergic to bee venom, she suffered from pain and swelling around the area of the bee sting. On her return to Taiwan, Ms. Chen visited her physician, who ordered some exploratory ...
In a bid to economically intimidate Taiwan, China has canceled a program that allowed people from 47 cities to travel as individual tourists to the island nation. The tourism ban came into effect on August 1, 2019. Intimidating Taiwan The travel program has been in place since 2011 when Taiwan’s former President Ma Ying-jeou wanted ...
The Yushan weather station on Mount Yu, the highest mountain in Taiwan, stands at 12,630 feet above sea level. The Japanese constructed the station on the north peak 76 years ago in 1943. It is now a part of the Yushan National Park — Taiwan’s largest and least accessible reserve — with pristine forests and ...
An amiable and outgoing character, Yongsong Huang’s youthful appearance belies his age of over 70 years. Huang himself is not only the founder, but also the chief planner and art director of Echo of Things Chinese, a Taiwan-based magazine devoted to collecting and preserving traditional Chinese folk culture and crafts. Though he has spent 44 ...
Zhang Yongxiang, after graduating from the Taiwan Police Academy, was assigned to the Neihu District Police Station in Taipei. In July 1999, when news of the large-scale suppression of Falun Gong by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) reached Taiwan, the Taipei City Police Department instructed police officers at local police stations to investigate Falun Gong’s ...
General Mark Milley, the U.S. Army Chief of Staff, pointed to communist China’s threat as America’s primary military challenge for the century. He was speaking at the Senate Armed Service Committee and is said to be next-in-line as the president’s principal military advisor. Chinese military threat “China went to school on us… They watched us ...
A war with China seems inevitable for Taiwan at some point given that President Xi Jinping has indicated that he would use military force to annex the island nation if needed. Submarines will be an important weapon in such a war. While Taiwan has a respectable military, it dwarfs in comparison to the Chinese. But ...
Beijing has intensified its support of pro-China groups in Taiwan as it seeks to annex the island nation as soon as it can. However, the current protests in Hong Kong have only made Beijing’s job tougher since the Taiwanese have become more anti-China in their approach to the mainland. Taking over Taiwan To garner support ...
A new plastic straw ban came into effect on July 1 in Taiwan as the country seeks to cut back on the plastic pollution plaguing the island. Taiwan uses around 3 billion plastic straws annually. With the new law, it is hoped that the number can be reduced by 100 million per year. The ban ...
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