2008 in Taiwan information

Events from the year 2008 in Taiwan, Republic of China. This year is numbered Minguo 97 according to the official Republic of China calendar. President...

Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia. The main island of Taiwan, also known as Formosa, lies between the East and...

Presidential elections were held in Taiwan on 22 March 2008. Kuomintang (KMT) nominee Ma Ying-jeou won with 58% of the vote, ending eight years of Democratic...

Legislative elections were held in Taiwan on 12 January 2008 to elect the members of the Legislative Yuan. It was the first Legislative Yuan election after...

The economy of Taiwan is a highly developed free-market economy. It is the 8th largest in Asia and 20th-largest in the world by purchasing power parity...

surrounding the political status of Taiwan or the Taiwan issue is an ongoing dispute on the political status of Taiwan, currently controlled by the Republic...

The Taiwan independence movement is a political movement which advocates the formal declaration of an independent and sovereign Taiwanese state, as opposed...

Interior until 2008, when anti-communist provisions in Taiwan's constitution were struck down by the Constitutional Court. The Taiwan Communist Party...

Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is an island country in East Asia. The island of Taiwan, formerly known as Formosa, makes up 99% of the...

referendums on United Nations membership applications were held in Taiwan on 22 March 2008, the same day as the presidential elections. The first referendum...

2008 in Taiwanese (Chinese Taipei) football. Chen Sing-an replaced Toshiaki Imai to become Chinese Taipei national football team's main coach. Enterprise...

Foreign relations of the Republic of China (ROC), more commonly known as Taiwan, are accomplished by efforts of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic...

Taiwanese indigenous peoples, also known as Formosans, Native Taiwanese or Austronesian Taiwanese, and formerly as Taiwanese aborigines, Takasago people...

out for Taiwan March') was a demonstration on 25 October 2008 sponsored by the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and Taiwan Solidarity Union in Taipei...

Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), maintains an active conscription system in accordance with the regulations set by the government of the...

The 2008 Taiwan Series was played by the Uni-President 7-Eleven Lions, team that placed first in the all-season standing, and the Brother Elephants, wild...

of Taiwan, together with the Penghu Islands, became an annexed territory of Japan in 1895, when the Qing dynasty ceded Fujian-Taiwan Province in the...

The term "Taiwanese people" has various interpretations. It may generally be considered the people living on the island of Taiwan who share a common culture...

The New Taiwan dollar (code: TWD; symbol: NT$, also abbreviated as NT) is the official currency of the Republic of China. The New Taiwan dollar has been...

Rail transport in Taiwan consists of 2,025 kilometres (1,258 mi) (as of 2015) of railway networks. Though no longer as dominant as it once was, rail transport...

Taiwan High Speed Rail (THSR) is the high-speed railway of Taiwan consisting of one line that runs approximately 350 km (217 mi) along the west coast...

Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is governed in a framework of a representative democratic republic under a five-power system first envisioned...

representatives. This was greeted in Taiwan by Republic of China (ROC) President Chiang Ching-kuo's Three Noes. While the PRC and ROC agreed in principle on opening...

The history of the island of Taiwan dates back tens of thousands of years to the earliest known evidence of human habitation. The sudden appearance of...

In Taiwan, some of the most popular sports include baseball, basketball, badminton, football, softball, table tennis, tennis, and volleyball. Martial...

was inhabited by a diversity of Taiwanese indigenous peoples speaking Austronesian languages until Han settlement began in the early 17th century, around...

into Taiwan. These languages include Taiwanese Hokkien, Hakka, and Mandarin, which have become the major languages spoken in present-day Taiwan. Formosan...

Taiwan mazesoba (Japanese: 台湾まぜそば, lit. 'Taiwan mixed noodles') is a dry noodle dish that originated in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan, and is now considered...