However, Taiwanese authorities can be relatively lenient, one veteran police officer stating anonymously, " Unless someone complains about vandalism, we won't get involved.

However, one part of the Taiwanese food culture that remains integral is that of the Indigenous Taiwanese people.

However, recently its function moved toward a multi-purpose social, educational and cultural center for the Taiwanese public.

However, after 1945, Amoy Hokkien and Taiwanese Hokkien began to have some minor differences due to different development and evolution in the two languages.

However, by this time, Taiwanese Hokkien was subjected to influence from other languages, causing its text reading system to decline.

However, since Mandarin was enforced as the official language of the Republic of China and Taiwanese was not allowed to be spoken in schools, the mainlanders who learned Taiwanese found their new language skills to diminish.

However, as of 2010, the conflict between these two theories still plays a role in internal Taiwanese politics.

However, when the respondents are told that duo identity is an option, 45 % of the respondents identify themselves as " Taiwanese only ", 4 % of the respondents call themselves " Chinese only " while 45 % of the respondents call themselves " both Taiwanese as well as Chinese ".

However, after constitutional amendments effectively transferring almost all of the National Assembly's powers to the Legislative Yuan in the late 1990s, it has become more common in Taiwanese newspapers to refer to the Legislative Yuan as the " parliament " ( 國會, guóhuì ).

However, there are proposals being floated, particularly by supporters of Taiwan independence and the supporters of Taiwan localization movement, to replace the current Constitution with a document drafted by the Taiwanese constituencies in Taiwan.

However, MPS II was not used for the official Romanized names of Taiwanese places ( though many road signs replaced during this period uses MPS II ).

However, in the Republic of China, consisting mostly of Taiwan, some inhabitants do not consider themselves Chinese, while others consider themselves both Chinese and Taiwanese.

However, in 2006, the Ministry of Education rejected the use of Daighi tongiong pingim () for the Taiwanese dialect in favor of Pe ̍ h-ōe-jī ().

However, the take-off of the Taiwanese economy and the influence of western life styles was also a reason which made people change their traditional customs.

However, the Taiwanese people have long called the city Kelang ().

However, it is more probable that the name was derived from the first inhabitants of the region, as are the names of many other Taiwanese cities.

However, she explained that she merely respected the will of Taiwanese people.

However, the production of films in Taiwanese began to decline, due to a variety of reasons, ranging from limited scope and waning interest for such films, to the Nationalist government's promotion of Mandarin in mass media and its deeming of Taiwanese dialect as too " coarse ".

However, the Taiwanese film industry was under serious challenges, such as the entry of Hong Kong films, well known for their entertainment quality, into the Taiwanese market.

However, despite the contributions of its ban Jelačić in quenching the Hungarian war of independence, Croatia, not treated any more favourably by Vienna than the Hungarians themselves, lost its domestic autonomy.

However, increased tensions between Spain and the United States, which culminated in the Spanish-American War, finally led to a Spanish withdrawal in 1898, and in 1902 Cuba gained formal independence.

However, while a large volume of economic research has been done to define the relationship between central bank independence and economic performance, the results are ambiguous.

However his hasty return on August 18 sparked off fierce inter-tribal clashes between the Issa and the Gadabuursi, which in turn caused the Gadabuursi to withdraw from Djibouti politics and did not return to the political scene until after Djibouti's independence.

However December 16 is only the date on which the state celebrates the event, while the actual day on which the independence of Bahrain was declared was August 15, 1971 ( see Bahrain Independence Day )

However at the time of independence, the number of native doctors and lawyers was in the single digits.

However, when Mountbatten's timeline offered the prospect of attaining independence soon, sentiments took a different turn.

However, the Faroese managed to re-establish the Løgting as a county council with an advisory role in 1852, with many people hoping to eventually achieve independence.

However, a planned referendum on a roadmap towards independence in 2001 was called off following Danish Prime Minister Poul Nyrup Rasmussen saying that Danish money grants would be phased out within four years if there was a ' yes ' vote.

However, when Estonia declared independence, this " temporary obstruction " was resolved.

However, that body, in a rare display of independence, rejected it by a vote of thirty-three to five.

However, once the incompetence of the plotters became clear, Nazarbayev threw his weight solidly behind Gorbachev and continuation of some form of union, largely because of his conviction that independence would be economic suicide.

However many whites rejected the New Kenya Group and condemned the London agreement, because it moved away from racial quotas and toward independence.

However, Sicard had opened up the south to the invasive actions of the Saracens in his war with Andrew II of Naples and when he was assassinated in 839, Amalfi declared independence and two factions fought for power in Benevento, crippling the principality and making it susceptible to external enemies.

However, Islamist groups including the Ansar Dine and Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb ( AQIM ), turned on the MNLA and took control of the north, rejecting independence in favour of a Mali under Sharia.

However the regime faced the opposition of the tribes — when the Berber were required to come under the jurisdiction of French courts in 1930 it marked the beginning of the independence movement.

However, the nationalists were disappointed in their belief that the Allied victory in Morocco would pave the way for independence.

However, with Owain's eye off the real prize — the independence of Wales, one by one the lordships began to surrender.

However, an election held shortly before the referendum had turned out the incumbent " pro-independence " government, replacing it with a government which did not support the independence movement.

However, after the former colony of Northern Rhodesia renamed itself Zambia on independence in 1964, and Nyasaland renamed itself Malawi in 1964, the colony of Southern Rhodesia changed its name to simply " Rhodesia ", also in 1964.

However, this small period of independence meant that it was fashioned as its own kingdom and the subsequent kings named their titles as king of Galicia and León, instead of merely king of León, even though Galicia was never to be independent again.

However, it was during this time that the SS began to establish its independence from the Sturmabteilung ( SA ), although officially the SS was still considered a sub-organization of the SA and answerable to the SA Chief of Staff.

However, civil disobedience was used to protest this, and clandestine notes sent to the Pope to obtain justice were answered by papal recognition of San Marino's rights, which restored them to independence.

However, the new government of president Ernest Bai Koroma quickly amended the laws against drug trafficking in the country, updating the existing legislation from those inherited at independence in 1961, to address the international concerns, increasing punishment for offenders both in terms of higher, if not prohibitive, fines, lengthier prison terms and provision for possible extradition of offenders wanted elsewhere, including to the United States.

However, the Soviet threat of seizing parts of Inner Mongolia induced China to recognize Outer Mongolia's independence, provided that a referendum was held.