Taiwan's highest movie award ceremony, the Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards, is held annually in the Memorial Hall Auditorium.

The national park is Taiwan's largest, highest and least accessible national park.

The North Peak is also home to Taiwan's highest permanently occupied building, the Yushan Weather Station, where the occasional visitors are given a warm welcome.

Critics of the KMT's program for a centralized national culture regard it as institutionalized ethnic discrimination, and point to the loss of several indigenous languages and a perpetuation of shame for being an aborigine < ref name =" shame "> noted that Taiwan's first democratically elected President, Li Teng-Hui, said in a famous interview: "...

During Taiwan's early history, the island was populated by Austronesian aboriginals and in the 17th and 18th centuries it served as a destination point for migrating Chinese, primarily Hoklos and Hakka.

However, from the " creative, active point of view of Taiwan's film industry " point of view, it remains its subject certainly.

It is part of the north coast scenic area and includes Taiwan's northernmost point, Cape Fugui.

Taipei economist Liang Chi-yuan, commented: “ Taiwan's risk factor as a flash point has dropped significantly with its improved ties with the mainland.

: The name " Republic of China " is not listed as Taiwan's " official name " under the " Government " section, due to U. S. acknowledgement of Beijing's One-China policy according to which there is one China and Taiwan is a part of it.

The current official position of the party is that the " Republic of China ( Taiwan )" is an independent and sovereign country whose territory consists of Taiwan and its surrounding smaller islands and whose sovereignty derives only from the ROC citizens living in Taiwan ( similar philosophy of self-determination ), based on the " Resolution on Taiwan's Future " in 1999.

A major port, through which pass most of Taiwan's marine imports and exports, is located at the city but is not managed by the city government.

The island is characterized by the contrast between the eastern two-thirds, consisting mostly of rugged mountains running in five ranges from the northern to the southern tip of the island, and the flat to gently rolling Chianan Plains in the west that are also home to most of Taiwan's population.

Taiwan's area is of which is land and is territorial water claims, making it slightly smaller than the combined area of Maryland and Delaware, or slightly bigger than territory of Belgium.

The electronics sector is Taiwan's most important industrial export sector and is the largest recipient of U. S. investment.

The United States is Taiwan's third largest trading partner, taking 11. 4 % of Taiwanese exports and supplying 10. 0 % of its imports.

Although only about one-quarter of Taiwan's land area is suitable for farming, virtually all farmland is intensely cultivated, with some areas suitable for two and even three crops a year.

Taiwan's energy consumption is dominated by oil ( 51. 8 %), followed by coal ( 30. 4 %), nuclear power ( 8. 7 %), natural gas ( 8. 6 %), and hydroelectric power ( 0. 3 %).

Although Taiwan's per capita energy use is on part with neighboring Asian countries, in July 2005 the Ministry of Economic Affairs announced plans to cut 170 million-tons of carbon dioxide emissions by 2025.

Hsinchu Science and Industrial Park | Hsinchu Science Park is home to many of Taiwan's IT companies.

The Industrial Technology Research Institute ( ITRI ), headquartered within the park, is the largest nonprofit research organization in Taiwan and has worked to develop applied technological research for industry, including for many of Taiwan's traditional industries ( such as textiles ).

It is also thought that if formal independence were declared, Taiwan's foreign policies would lean further towards Japan and the United States and the desirable option of United Nations Trusteeship Council is also considered.

As of 2009, their total population is around 499, 500 ( approximately 2 % of Taiwan's population ).

The Han sailor, Chen Di, in his Record of the Eastern Seas ( 1603 ), identifies the indigenous people of Taiwan as simply ( Dong Fan ) 東番, or " Eastern Savage ", while the Dutch referred to Taiwan's original inhabitants as " Indians " or " blacks ", based on their prior colonial experience in what is currently Indonesia.

Lien Fang Yu () born April 14, 1943 in Chongqing as Fang Yu (), is the wife of Lien Chan, the Chairman of Taiwan's Kuomintang party from 2000 to 2005.

* Shuenn-Der Yu " Hot and Noisy: Taiwan's Night Market Culture " in The Minor Arts of Daily Life: Popular Culture in Taiwan David K. Jordan, Andrew D. Morris, and Marc L. Moskowitz, ( eds.

The temple is affiliated Fo Guang Shan, one of Taiwan's largest Buddhist organizations.

On January 1, 2004, Nan Hua Shan Tang was registered with Taiwan's Ministry of Interior.

The party did not at the outset give open support to an independent Taiwanese national identity – a move that could have invited a violent crackdown by the Taiwan's Kuomintang rulers.

The row escalated when, on 16 May, Health Minister Solomone Naivalu voted in support of Taiwan's bid to gain observer status at the World Health Assembly in Geneva.

Since the 1970s, the tea industry in Taiwan has expanded at a rapid rate, in line with the rest of Taiwan's economy.

** Taiwan's deadliest fire, at a karaoke restaurant in Taichung, kills 64.

The Dutch originally sought to use their castle Zeelandia at Tayowan as a trading base between Japan and China, but soon realized the potential of the huge deer populations that roamed in herds of thousands along the alluvial plains of Taiwan's western regions.

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.

However, this proposal enhanced the public perception of " selling out " Taiwan toward him and his opponents questioned how he can protect Taiwan's sovereignty and accept that Taiwan be a part of China at the same time.

Professor of Computer Science at National Taiwan University ; Green Party Taiwan's founding chair ; former director of Taiwan Environmental Protection Union ; candidate for the Legislative Yuan in 1998 and 2001.

His experience in Fujian, the province immediately across the straits from Taiwan and the source of a larger percentage of Taiwan's population, was clearly a factor in Chen's selection to take control of Taiwan at the end of the war.

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" That was months after being banned from mainland China in 2000, after her performance at the inauguration of Taiwan's newly elected president, Chen Shui-bian.

In 2002, A-mei won the " Best Female Vocalist of the Year " award with the album, " Truth " at Taiwan's most prestigious, " Golden Melody Awards.

Hsu believes that maintaining a good relationship with the People's Republic of China is vital for Taiwan's survival and growth, and there is no hurry to negotiate with mainland on political issues at the present.

He founded the Taiwan Democratic School in July 2004 which is aimed at " promoting a new democratic movement to sustain Taiwan's young democracy.

From August 2009 to February 2010, Wang taught cross-strait history at Taiwan's National Chengchi University, as a visiting scholar.

Mackay: The Black Bearded Bible Man had its world premier on 27 November 2008, at Taiwan's National Theater and ran until 30 November.

Over 1 million Taiwanese formed a long human chain, from the harbor at Keelung, Taiwan's northernmost city, to its southern tip at Eluanbi, Pingtung County to commemorate the 228 Incident, to call for peace, and to protest the deployment of missiles by the People's Republic of China aimed at Taiwan along the mainland coast.

Norman also performed at the Hong Kong Cultural Center opening and gave a recital at Taiwan's National Concert Hall.

In Taiwan, Tata became the first Thai artist to be invited to perform at the Golden Melody Awards – Taiwan's equivalent of the Grammy Awards.