Wang Jin-pyng (; born March 17, 1941 in Luzhu Township, Takao Prefecture, Taiwan, Empire of Japan ( now part of Kaohsiung City, Republic of China ( Taiwan ) ), is a Taiwanese politician, currently the President of the Legislative Yuan.

At a Sun Yat-sen statue in Kaohsiung, a 70 year old ROC retired soldier slit his own throat to commit suicide as a way to protest the ministry proposal on the anniversary of Sun's birthday 12 November.

In 1900, the third Taiwan Governor-General passed a budget which initiated the building of Taiwan's railroad system from Kirun ( Keelung ) to Takao ( Kaohsiung ).

The Taiwan rail system connecting the south and the north and the modernizations of Kirun ( Keelung ) and Takao ( Kaohsiung ) ports were completed to facilitate transport and shipping of raw material and agricultural products.

Important Japanese military bases and industrial centers throughout Taiwan, like Takao ( now Kaohsiung ), were targets of heavy American bombing.

* Japanese steam warship Takao in service during the Boshin War of 1868 – 9 ( same characters as Kaohsiung )

It was administratively attached to the municipality of Takao ( Kaohsiung ) in the Japanese colony of Taiwan.

In the following few years consulates open throughout the Empire, including Hankou ( Wuhan ), Takao ( Kaohsiung ), Tamsui ( near Taipei ), Shanghai and Xiamen.

* Kaohsiung, Taiwan: The Taiwanese and Japanese name before administration of Taiwan ( Formosa ) was handed to the Republic of China ( also seen as Takau, Takow or Takaw )

Kaohsiung, officially named Kaohsiung City, is divided into thirty-eight districts.

Kaohsiung is the second largest city in Taiwan, with a population around 2. 9 million.

Kaohsiung International Airport serving the city is the second largest airport in Taiwan.

The Port of Kaohsiung is the largest harbor in Taiwan.

Kaohsiung is the terminal of the Sun Yat-sen Freeway.

Kaohsiung is located within a degree to the south of the Tropic of Cancer.

Kaohsiung is sometimes seen as the political mirror image of Taipei.

While northern Taiwan leans towards the Pan-Blue Coalition in the state-level elections, southern Taiwan leaned towards the Pan-Green Coalition since late 1990s, and Kaohsiung is no exception.

* In Taiwan ( Republic of China ), a special municipality ( 直轄市 in Wade-Giles: chih-hsia-shih ) is a city with equal status to a province: Kaohsiung, New Taipei, Taichung, Tainan and Taipei.

The Linhai Industrial Park, established in Kaohsiung in 1960, is a well-developed industrial zone with over 490 companies focusing on other industries including base metals, machinery and repairs, nonmetallic mineral products, chemical products, and food and beverage manufacturing.

The whole country is divided into two diminished provinces ( Taiwan Province and Fujian Province ) and five special municipalities ( Kaohsiung, New Taipei, Taichung, Tainan and Taipei ).

There is one regional service center for each of the Southern Taiwan Region ( with the center in Kaohsiung ), the Central Taiwan Region ( Taichung ), and the Eastern Taiwan Region ( Hualien ).

As Taiwanese road traffic is now heavily motorized, most pedicabs have been replaced by taxicabs, but they can still be found at limited places, such as Cijin District of Kaohsiung City.

Taiwan High Speed Rail ( abbreviated THSR or HSR ) is a high-speed rail line that runs approximately along the west coast of the Taiwan, from the national capital of Taipei to the southern city of Kaohsiung.

Fan Rong K Chung Graham ( 金芳蓉, pinyin: Jīn Fāngróng ) ( born October 9, 1949 in Kaohsiung, Taiwan ), known professionally as Fan Chung, is a mathematician who works mainly in the areas of spectral graph theory, extremal graph theory and random graphs, in particular

Kaohsiung Incident is well-recognized as a critical and important event in the post-war history of Taiwan and regarded as the watershed of the Taiwan democratization movements.

Taichung ( 臺中 or 台中 ; literally " Central Taiwan ") is a city located in west-central Taiwan, with a population of just over 2. 6 million people, making it the third largest city on the island after Taipei and Kaohsiung.

The record for simultaneous hula hooping ( minimum time: 2 minutes ) is for 2, 290 participants at Chung Cheng Stadium in Kaohsiung, Taiwan on 28 October 2000.

Nicknamed the Rainy Port for its frequent rain and maritime role, the city is Taiwan's second largest seaport ( after Kaohsiung ).

The headquarters of Fo Guang Shan, located in Kaohsiung, is the largest Buddhist monastery in Taiwan.

Born in Chiayi City to Hsü Shih-hsien ( 許世賢 ), a politician-doctor, Chang is a medical doctor educated in Kaohsiung Medical College ( 1968 ), the Institute of Public Health, National Taiwan University ( 1970 ), Johns Hopkins University ( 1974 ), and Kyorin University ( 1994 ).

The Republic of China Military Academy (), literally " Republic of China Army Officer School ; or abbreviated Chinese: (), literally " Army Officer School "), also known as the Chinese Military Academy ( CMA ), is the military academy of the Republic of China and is located in Fengshan District, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan.

Kaohsiung was the host city of the 2009 World Games, a multisport event primarily composed of sports not featured in the Olympic Games.

Zuoying Military Harbor lies to the north of Kaohsiung Harbor and the city center.

Frank Hsieh of the Democratic Progressive Party was reelected twice as Mayor of Kaohsiung, where he was widely credited for transforming the city from an industrial sprawl into an attractive modern metropolis.

The KMT retained a clear majority in the capital, while the DPP and the KMT obtained very close results in the southern city of Kaohsiung.

The city of Taipei was split off to become a province-level municipality in 1967, and the city of Kaohsiung was split off in 1979 to become another province-level municipality.

Some believe that the PFP's lack of experienced candidates in the December 2002 mayoral elections in Taipei and Kaohsiung ( the PFP supported the KMT's candidates ), and the PFP's poor performance the city council elections in those cities at the same time were major setbacks to Soong's chances of being the KMT-PFP candidate for president.

* Kaohsiung City, formerly a provincial city of Taiwan Province, was elevated as a special municipality in 1979.

The organization also has a small branch office in Taiwan's southern port city of Kaohsiung.

In 2000, out of the three consortia that submitted bids, Kaohsiung Rapid Transit Corporation ( KRTC ) was awarded the contract received priority negotiating rights with the city government in constructing the system.

It runs from the northern harbor city of Keelung to the southern harbor city of Kaohsiung, while there was an branch ( No. 1A ) connecting to Chiang Kai-shek International Airport ( now Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport ).

Although Fengshan is the capital of Kaohsiung, it has become a de facto satellite city of Kaohsiung City.

In recent years, Uni Air has launched services to international destinations from the southern Taiwanese port city of Kaohsiung.

Based on its mission objective of contributing to the development of its home city, China Steel sponsored the establishment of the provisional office of the Kaohsiung Rapid Transit Corporation in February 1999 and lodged an application to invest in the project following the solicitation of the Kaohsiung Municipal Government.