Events from the year 2012inTaiwan, Republic of China. This year is numbered Minguo 101 according to the official Republic of China calendar. President...
Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia. It is located at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern...
Presidential elections were held inTaiwan on 14 January 2012. The election was held concurrently with legislative elections. It was the fifth direct election...
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...
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...
Religion inTaiwan is characterised by a diversity of religious beliefs and practices, predominantly those pertaining to the continued preservation of...
The 2012Taiwanese legislative election was held on 16 January 2012 for all 113 seats in the Legislative Yuan. For the first time, legislative elections...
groups as such inTaiwan Area only. Traditional Chinese holidays Public holidays in China Public holidays in Japan Camaron Kao (May 14, 2012), "Thousands...
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...
Taiwanese indigenous peoples, also known as Formosans, Native Taiwanese or Austronesian Taiwanese, and formerly as Taiwanese aborigines or Gaoshan people...
Taiwan is in a seismically active zone, on the Pacific Ring of Fire, and at the western edge of the Philippine Sea Plate. Geologists have identified 42...
into Taiwan. These languages include Taiwanese Hokkien, Hakka, and Mandarin, which have become the major languages spoken in present-day Taiwan. Formosan...
Taiwan Railway (TR) is a state-owned conventional railway inTaiwan. It is operated by the Taiwan Railway Corporation under the supervision of the Ministry...
spoken inTaiwan. A large majority of the Taiwanese population is fluent in Mandarin, though many also speak a variety of Min Chinese known as Taiwanese Hokkien...
was inhabited by a diversity of Taiwanese indigenous peoples speaking Austronesian languages until Han settlement began in the early 17th century, around...
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...
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...
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...
Rail transport inTaiwan 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...
Republic of China to Taiwan (Chinese: 中華民國政府遷臺), also known as the Kuomintang's retreat to Taiwan or the Great Retreat (Chinese: 大撤退) inTaiwan, refers to the...
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...
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...
women inTaiwan has been based on and affected by the traditional patriarchal views and social structure within Taiwanese society, which put women in a subordinate...
The Third Taiwan Strait Crisis, also called the 1995–1996 Taiwan Strait Crisis or the 1996 Taiwan Strait Crisis, was the effect of a series of missile...
the Taiwanese Air Force) is the military aviation branch of the Republic of China Armed Forces, based inTaiwan since 1949. The ROCAF was founded in 1920...
Buddhism is one of the major religions of Taiwan. Taiwanese people predominantly practice Mahayana Buddhism, Confucian principles, Taoist tradition and...
island of Taiwan, together with the Penghu Islands, became a dependency of Japan in 1895, when the Qing dynasty ceded Fujian-Taiwan Province in the Treaty...
educational system inTaiwan is the responsibility of the Ministry of Education. The system produces pupils with some of the highest test scores in the world,...