A traditional Chinese Chán Buddhist master in Taiwan, sitting in meditation.

SUT has obtained the authorities for the recruitment of students for master degrees of engineering, special testing for on-the-job students for master degrees, the conferment of master degree for the on-the-job students, and the recruitment of international students including students from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan.

So far, more than 1000 oversea students and students from Honkong, Macao and Taiwan have come to study in the university, among whom many have been conferred doctor, master or bachelor's degrees.

He served as assistant of master of novices, Thuduc, Vietnam from 1959-1963, then Master of novices and rector of Manresa House, Changhua, Taiwan from 1963-1970.

In May 2011, a food scandal broke out in Taiwan where DEHP ( a chemical plasticizer and potential carcinogen used to make plastic ) was found as a stabilizer in drinks and juice syrups.

The Batanes and Babuyan Islands are found on the Luzon Strait north of the Philippines facing Taiwan.

Traditional Chinese food can be found in Taiwan, alongside Fujian and Hakka-style as well as native Taiwanese dishes, includes dishes from Guangdong, Jiangxi, Chaoshan, Shanghai, Hunan, Sichuan and Beijing.

The highest species diversity is found in the Himalayas from Uttarakhand, Nepal and Sikkim to Yunnan and Sichuan, with other significant areas of diversity in the mountains of Korea, Japan and Taiwan.

Because they are found everywhere, convenience stores in Taiwan provide services on behalf of financial institutions or government agencies such as collection of city parking fees, utility bills, traffic violation fines, and credit card payments.

* Malagasy cultural traditions shared with Austronesians of Taiwan, the Pacific Islands, Indonesia, New Zealand, and the Philippines including ancient customs, such as burying the dead within a canoe in the sea or in a lake, the cultivation of traditional Austronesian crops such as taro orsaonjo, banana, coconut, and sugar cane, traditional architecture with a square house plan, music and musical instruments such as the Antsiva conch, the hazolahy drum, the atranatrana xylophone, sodina flute, or the valiha tube zither, and dance, including the " bird dance " found both in central and southern regions.

Hakka dialect speakers found on Taiwan originated from these two regions.

The oldest evidence of human presence on Taiwan consists of three cranial fragments and a molar tooth found at Chouqu and Gangzilin, in Zuozhen District, Tainan.

The same culture is found at sites at Eluanbi on the southern tip of Taiwan, persisting until 5, 000 years ago.

Malayo-Polynesian languages are now spoken across a huge area from Madagascar to Hawaii, Easter Island and New Zealand, but form only one branch of the Austronesian family, the rest of whose branches are found only on Taiwan.

The Fiji Times reported on 3 July 2005 that recent research by the Fiji Museum and the University of the South Pacific ( USP ) has found that skeletons excavated at Bourewa, near Natadola in Sigatoka, at least 3000 years old, belonged to the first settlers of Fiji, with their origins in South China or Taiwan.

Obsidian, a rare volcanic glass found only in Papua New Guinea had been discovered there, according to Dr Patrick D. Nunn, USP Professor of Ocean Science and Geography, who theorized that the people could originally have left southern China or Taiwan some 7000 years ago, settling in Papua New Guinea before drifting on to Fiji and other countries.

A study in Taiwan of marriages where the future bride is adopted in the groom's family as an infant or small child found that these marriages have higher infidelity and divorce and lower fertility than ordinary marriages.

Falun Gong is practiced by tens, and possibly hundreds of thousands outside China, with the largest communities found in Taiwan and North American cities with large Chinese populations, such as New York and Toronto.

* Circobotys elegans, a moth species found in Taiwan

In July 2007, the Taiwan Ministry of Education released a study that found 5, 000 textbook terms, some relating to Chinese culture, as being " unsuitable ".

In March 2007, it was noted that the destruction of the Western Line railway base found below the floor of the Taipei Main Station and built in 1893 by Qing Empire-appointed Governor of Taiwan Province Liu Mingchuan was part of the government's call for desinicization through removal of the Chinese site.

Today, associations organized by Fudan's alumni can be found in the United States, Japan, Australia, Canada, Taiwan, Hong Kong and mainland China.

The backwards version can also be found in Southern Taiwan.

* In English Canada, Ireland, Israel, Japan, Korea ( both ), Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, the Philippines, the United Kingdom, and the United States: 1, 234, 567. 89 or 1, 234, 567 · 89 ; the latter is generally found only in older, and especially handwritten, documents.

Onigiri are also found in many convenience stores in Hong Kong, mainland China, Taiwan and South Korea.

The switch to pinyin is still quite new for Taiwan and many non-standard spellings continue to be found, including " Lee " and " Soong ".

Pure Land oriented practices and concepts are found within basic Mahāyāna Buddhist cosmology, and form an important component of the Mahāyāna Buddhist traditions in China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam, and Tibet.

A diphyletic genetic structure was found in Taiwan Aborigines.

Prior to major Taiwanese economic success, the mountainous areas held several endemic animal species and subspecies, such as the Swinhoe's Pheasant ( Lophura swinhoii ), Taiwan blue magpie ( Urocissa caerulea ), Formosan Black Bear ( Selanarctos thibetanus formosanus ), the Formosan Sika Deer ( Cervus nippon taiwanensis or Cervus nippon taiouanus ) and the Formosan landlocked salmon ( Oncorhynchus masou formosanus ).

In Taiwan, Aderans, a hair loss solutions provider, did a TV commercial featuring a morphing sequence in which people with lush, thick hair morph into one another, reminiscent of the end sequence of the Black or White video.

The Taiwan Strait or Formosa Strait, formerly known as the Black Ditch, is a wide strait separating the island of Taiwan from the Asian mainland.

* Black gold ( politics ), a term used in the Republic of China ( Taiwan ) to refer to political corruption

T ' ang Ching-sung ( 唐景崧 ), the Ch ' ing governor-general of Taiwan, was prevailed upon to become the republic's first President, and his old friend Liu Yung-fu ( 劉永福 ), the retired Black Flag Army commander who had become a national hero in China for his victories against the French in northern Vietnam a decade earlier, was invited to serve as Grand General of the Army.

* Asiatic Black Bear: It populates a wide area from Siberia to Afghanistan and Thailand as well as certain Asian islands such as Taiwan and Japan.

In November 2006, a Canadian Television documentary was aired titled The Black Bearded Barbarian of Taiwan.

Black Drongos were introduced just before the Second World War from Taiwan to the island of Rota to help in the control of insects.

* The Black Cat Squadron was a squadron of the Republic of China Air Force that flew the U-2 surveillance plane out of Taoyuan Airbase in northern Taiwan, from 1961 to 1974.

In 1925, Japanese anarchists formed the Black Youth League, which had branches in the then-colonial Taiwan.

* The Current Status of Formosan Black Bear in Taiwan by Y. Wang

* Status and Management of the Formosan Black Bear in Taiwan by Yin Wang

The Formosan clouded leopard was the second-largest carnivore on Taiwan, after the Formosan Black Bear.

Black gold () is a term used in the Republic of China ( Taiwan ) to refer to political corruption.

Remarkably, the Black Flag Army was called into being again in 1895 by Liu Yongfu in response to the Japanese invasion of Taiwan ( 1895 ).