A diplomatic row with China erupted on 5 May 2005, when President Chen Shui-bian of Taiwan arrived for a private visit and was welcomed at a private function at Suva's Sheraton Resort by Vice-President Ratu Joni Madraiwiwi, Ratu Ovini Bokini ( Chairman of the Great Council of Chiefs ), Senate President Taito Waqavakatoga and several other Senators and MPs, and several judges including Chief Justice Daniel Fatiaki.

On 10 December 2005, the New Zealand Herald quoted Tavola as saying that Fiji would have to find a way to resolve a stand-off between the PRC and Taiwan, over membership of the Suva-based Council of South Pacific Tourism Organisation ; China was resisting Taiwanese attempts to join the organization on an equal basis.

Workers of the Taiwan Tongzhi Hotline Association participating in 2005 Taiwan Pride parade in Taipei.

The PRC has an extensive missile build-up near Taiwan and passed an Anti-Secession Law in 2005 threatening to use force.

* 2005 – The first direct commercial flights from mainland China ( from Guangzhou ) to Taiwan since 1949 arrived in Taipei.

In May 2005, Chen Shui-bian, President of the Republic of China ( Taiwan ), became the first foreign head of state to make an official visit to the Marshall Islands.

From 1996 to 2005, Senegal maintained relations with the Republic of China ( Taiwan ) instead of the People's Republic of China.

On 22 March 2005, however, the Singaporean defence ministry had to quickly correct an erroneous report in the Liberty Times on a joint military exercise between Singapore and Taiwan, This report caused the PRC government to demand an explanation.

By comparison, Taipei 101, built in 2004 in Taiwan, cost around the equivalent of US $ 1. 76 billion in 2005 dollars.

Taiwan 20, 2 %, Australia 14, 7 %, Japan 13, 5 %, Singapore 11, 9 %, New Caledonia, Poland 7, 1 %, New Zealand 5, 6 %, Fiji 5, 3 % ( 2005 )

It has been estimated ( presumably, over the same 2002 – 2005 period ) that about 47 % of the US turtle exports go to People's Republic of China ( predominantly to Hong Kong ), another 20 % to Taiwan, and 11 % to Mexico.

In 2005, YMCK again appeared outside of Japan, this time at the Formoz Festival in Taipei, Taiwan and at the Fat Festival in Bangkok, Thailand.

Eighty percent of urban household shoppers in Taiwan visit a convenience store each week ( 2005 ACNielsen ShopperTrends ).

* Reuters, " Taiwan election shooting suspect dead ," ( 2005 )| reference = Reuters.

" Taiwan election shooting suspect dead ," March 7, 2005.

Sanrio and various corporate partners have released Hello Kitty-branded products, including the Hello Kitty Stratocaster electric guitar ( since 2006, with Fender in the US ) and even an Airbus A330-200 commercial passenger jet airliner, dubbed the Hello Kitty Jet ( 2005 – 2009, with EVA Airways in Taiwan ).

A 2005 study estimated that over 90 million females were " missing " from the expected population in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, China, India, Pakistan, South Korea and Taiwan alone, and suggested that sex-selective abortion plays a role in this deficit.

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.

Principal aid donors are Australia $ 247 Million per year ( 2006 ), New Zealand $ 14 Million per year ( 2004 ), the European Union, Japan $ 40 Million per year ( 2005 ), and the Republic of China ( Taiwan ) At least $ 20 Million per year.

A fireworks display on Taipei 101, Taiwan which in 2005 held the world's first fireworks display on a supertall skyscraper.

Moreover, in January 2005, Taiwan adopted a Westernized writing format for government documents, denied that it was an attempt at desinicization, and promoted the actions as " a concerted effort at globalizing Taiwan's ossified bureaucracies and upgrading the nation's competitive edge.

In April and May 2005, Lien Chan and James Soong made separate trips to Mainland China, during which both explicitly supported the Consensus of 1992 and the concept of one China and in which both explicitly stated their parties ' opposition to Taiwan independence.

Guggenheim plans that have been closed include Salzburg 1990, Las Vegas, Nevada 2001-2008, Tokyo City 2002, New York 2002, Rio de Janeiro 2003-2005, Guadalajara Mexico 2004, Taichung Taiwan 2005, and Helsinki Finland 2012.

" The Golden Ghetto: The Grand Concourse in the Twentieth Century ", Bronx County Historical Society Journal 2004 41 ( 1 ): 4 – 18 and 2005 42 ( 2 ): 80 – 99

In the 2005 – 06 academic year, the Columbia Military Society, Columbia's student group for ROTC cadets and Marine officer candidates, was renamed the Hamilton Society for " students who aspire to serve their nation through the military in the tradition of Alexander Hamilton ".

" Near East Archaeological Society Bulletin 50 ( 2005 ): 15-26.

* The Devil's World: Heresy and Society 1100 – 1320, Andrew P. Roach ( Harlow ; Pearson Longman, 2005 )

* Humane Society of the United States – 28 % for 2005 – 2006

* I. Blake, G. Seroussi, and N. Smart, editors, Advances in Elliptic Curve Cryptography, London Mathematical Society 317, Cambridge University Press, 2005.

* 2005 – Timoshenko Medal, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, " for seminal contributions to nearly every area of solid and fluid mechanics, including fracture mechanics, turbulence, stratified flows, flames, flow in porous media, and the theory and application of intermediate asymptotics.

A new definition of hypnosis, derived from academic psychology, was provided in 2005, when the Society for Psychological Hypnosis, Division 30 of the American Psychological Association ( APA ), published the following formal definition:

In the early 2000s, there had been speculation that the United Nations might signal a takeover of ICANN, followed by a negative reaction from the US government and worries about a division of the Internet the World Summit on the Information Society in Tunisia in November 2005 agreed not to get involved in the day-to-day and technical operations of ICANN.

* Killebrew, Ann E., " Biblical Peoples and Ethnicity: An Archaeological Study of Egyptians, Canaanites, and Early Israel, 1300-1100 BCE " ( Society of Biblical Literature, 2005 )

* Brettler, Marc Zvi, " How to read the Bible " ( Jewish Publication Society, 2005 )

The Mars Society Italian chapter ( Italian Mars Society ) was founded in 2005.

In 2005, the Society formed a Foundation to continue the charitable works of its fund for indigent cartoonists, the Milt Gross Fund.

Naison ( 2005 ) describes the Bronx African American History Project, an oral community history project developed by the Bronx County Historical Society.

The Philip K. Dick Award is a science fiction award given annually at Norwescon sponsored by the Philadelphia Science Fiction Society and ( since 2005 ) supported by the Philip K. Dick Trust, and named after science fiction and fantasy writer Philip K. Dick.

Ramism could not exert any influence on the established Catholic schools and universities, which remained loyal to Scholasticism, or on the new Catholic schools and universities founded by members of the religious orders known as the Society of Jesus or the Oratorians, as can be seen in the Jesuit curriculum ( in use right up to the 19th century, across the Christian world ) known as the Ratio Studiorum ( that Claude Pavur, S. J., has recently translated into English, with the Latin text in the parallel column on each page ( St. Louis: Institute of Jesuit Sources, 2005 )).

* 50th Anniversary Visionary Award, SPIE – International Society for Optical Engineering, 2005

In 2005, the National Secular Society held the inaugural " Secularist of the Year " awards ceremony.

Vernadsky, Newsletter of the Geochemical Society, # 125, October 2005, http :// www. geochemsoc. org / downloads / gn125. pdf retrieved Aug. 22, 2010

In 2005 she received a lifetime achievement award from the Japan Society of New York.

* National Geographic Society and IBM established The Genographic Project in 2005, which aims to trace the ancestry of every living human down to a single male ancestor.

* Member ( 1998 – 2007 ), Chair ( 2003 – 2005 ) IEEE Computer Society Professional Practices Committee