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Both the Republic of China (ROC) and the People's Republic of China (PRC) agree to use the English name "Chinese Taipei". The English word "Chinese" is ambiguous, and may refer to either the state or the culture. The ROC translates "Chinese Taipei" as Zhōnghuá Táiběi (simplified Chinese: 中华台北; traditional Chinese: 中華臺北).
The Taiwan Power Company (Chinese: 台灣電力公司; pinyin: Táiwān Diànlì Gōngsī; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tâi-oân Tiān-le̍k Kong-si), also known by the short name Taipower (Chinese: 台電; pinyin: táidiàn; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tâi-tiān), is a state-owned electric power industry providing electricity to Taiwan and its off-shore islands.
The Central News Agency ( CNA) is Taiwan 's semi-official wire service. In addition to its Chinese language edition, it also has English and Japanese editions. It has a 300-strong employee base, and overseas branches in some 30 countries. It works with a number of well-known news agencies around the world, such as the Associated Press, Reuters ...
April 30, 2024 at 11:35 PM. By Ben Blanchard. TAIPEI (Reuters) -Taiwan is on alert for China to carry out military exercises after the inauguration of President-elect Lai Ching-te this month, the ...
TAIPEI, Taiwan — It was a message delivered in blunt terms. “Democracy is messy. Democracy can be hard, but it is far better to have a messy democracy than to be controlled by an authoritarian ...
Frank Thorp V and Ryan Nobles and Rae Wang. Updated May 26, 2024 at 4:51 PM. TAIPEI, Taiwan — A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers arrived in Taiwan on Sunday, days after the Beijing-claimed ...
Liberty Times. The Liberty Times is a national newspaper published in Taiwan. Founded by Lin Rong-San, it is published by the Liberty Times Group. The newspaper was first published on 17 April 1980, as Liberty Daily, before adopting its current name in 1987. In 1999, they launched their English language version, the Taipei Times .
The Taipei Times claims to be the third English-language newspaper founded in Taiwan. [2] In a column celebrating the paper's fifth anniversary, then-Taipei Times associate editor Laurence Eyton wrote that much of the initial planning of the paper was concluded over pints of Carlsberg in a pub with Anthony Lawrence, the paper's first managing ...