Citations:Taitung

English citations of Taitung

County

• 1903, James W. Davidson, The Island of Formosa Past and Present‎^[1], page 244:

  A thorough reorganization and redivisioning of the island was now necessitated. In former days, Formosa comprised one complete prefecture, four districts and three sub-prefectures. Now the island became a province with four prefectures (Taipeh, Taiwan, Tainan, and Taitung), eleven districts, and three sub-prefectures.

• 1989 February, “Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 1988”, in United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations‎^[2], Government Printing Office, page 785:

  In 1987 and 1988, 12 deaths among prisoners were questioned by Taiwan human rights groups. Incidents occurred in prisons and detention centers under the jurisdiction of both civil and military authorities. In one instance, eight prison guards were convicted in July for torturing to death a Taitung detention center prisoner. They received sentences ranging from 10 months to 4 years.

• 1998, Robert Storey, Taiwan (Lonely Planet)‎^[3], 4th edition, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 14:

  In 1995, an earthquake demolished a school in Taitung County, but fortunately this occurred at night when no students were inside.

• 2004 January, Wei-Chuan Chiang, Chi-Lu Sun, Su-Zan Yeh, “Age and growth of sailfish (Istiophorus platypterus) in waters off eastern Taiwan”, in Fishery Bulletin‎^[4], volume 102, number 1, page 251:

  During the 1990s the annual landings of sailfish off Taiwan ranged between 600 and 2000 metric tons, of which approximately 54% came from waters off Taitung (eastern Taiwan).

• 2010, Mei-Ling Hopgood, Lucky Girl‎^[5], Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 36:

  The gray sand and rock coastline of Taitung county is almost 144 miles long, but few people live there, thanks to its penchant for typhoons and earthquakes. The Chinese did not establish themselves in the region until the late nineteenth century, and even by the 1970s few Mandarin-speaking Nationalist Chinese had made their way south to Taitung.

• 2016, Air Defense Options for Taiwan‎^[6], RAND Corporation, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 17:

  Taiwan could opt to conserve some of its fighters. It has an air base, Hualien, connected to a shelter tunneled into a mountain that is large enough to house 200 aircraft. Another smaller second facility, Taitung, also has been reported.²⁴
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  ²⁴The larger of the two shelters is called Jiashan (also spelled Chashan), an aircraft sanctuary tunneled into a mountain next to Hualien air base, while a smaller shelter is located at the Taitung air base (Wendell Minnick, "Taiwan's Hidden Base Will Safeguard Aircraft," Defense News, May 3, 2010).

• 2021 July 6, “'Goddess of weightlifting' Kuo carries Taiwan's Olympic hopes”, in France 24‎^[7], archived from the original on 06 July 2021:

  A member of Taiwan's indigenous Amis tribe, Kuo showed sporting talent at an early age, training in judo, basketball and athletics in her native Taitung county.

• 2022 March 23, “6.6-magnitude quake hits waters off Taiwan”, in huaxia, editor, Xinhua News Agency‎^[8], archived from the original on 23 March 2022:

  A 6.6-magnitude earthquake jolted waters off Taitung County in Taiwan at 1:41 a.m. Wednesday, according to the China Earthquake Networks Center (CENC). […]
  To date, one person in Taitung County was slightly injured, power outages were recorded in several quake-struck areas, and a bridge in Hualien County collapsed, according to local fire authorities in Taiwan.

• 2022 August 16, Tyson Lu, Ko Lin, “Taitung balloon festival attracts over 1 million visitors this year”, in Focus Taiwan‎^[9], archived from the original on 16 August 2022, Culture:

  The annual international balloon festival in Taitung County concluded Monday evening after attracting more than a million visitors since the start of the event in early July.
  A total of 1.23 million people visited the 2022 Taiwan International Balloon Festival that opened July 2 in the Luye Highlands in Taitung, according to figures released Tuesday by the Taitung County Tourism Department.

• 2022 September 17, Ben Blanchard, Yimou Lee, Ann Maria Shibu, “Strong quake rocks southeast Taiwan, no reports of damage”, in Louise Heavens, Alex Richardson, editors, Reuters‎^[10], archived from the original on 18 September 2022, Asia Pacific‎^[11]:

  The quake had a depth of 7.3 km (4.5 miles) with its epicentre in Taitung county, a sparsely populated part of the island, the Taiwan weather bureau said.
  Taitung county commissioner April Yao wrote on her Facebook page the quake was "extremely strong", while the official Central News Agency showed a picture of bottles that had been shaken off their shelves in a Taitung shop.

• 2022 September 18, George Liao, “Eight injured in 6.8 magnitude earthquake in eastern Taiwan”, in Taiwan News‎^[12], archived from the original on 18 September 2022‎^[13]:

  Eight people were injured during a 6.8 magnitude earthquake that hit Taitung County on Sunday afternoon.

City

• 1958 August 12, Mrs. Peter J. Pankratz, “Visit to Orchid Island”, in The Mennonite‎^[14], volume 73, number 31, page 485:

  Early in the morning the group left by train for Taitung, the port of exit from where they would take a boat over the choppy ocean.

• 1973 October 8, “Island Beautiful With Much to See and Do”, in Newsweek‎^[15], page 21A:

  The "other cities" of Taiwan have their unique attractions: Hualien and Taitung on the remote east coast, quiet and friendly.

• 1982 July 4, “Newly widened railway boost for East Taiwan”, in Free China Weekly‎^[16], volume XXII, number 26, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1:

  Before the widening of the eastern line, trains from Taipei could only travel as far as Hualien. Passengers going on to Taitung, had to either change trains or take a bus, which meant an additional three and a half hours journey.

• 2021 April 2, “Taiwan: Dozens feared dead in train crash”, in DW News‎^[17], archived from the original on 03 April 2021:

  The train was traveling from Taipei to Taitung when it came off the rails as it entered a tunnel, just north of the city of Hualien. Some carriages hit the wall of the tunnel as a result of the derailment, the fire department said.

• 2022 August 16, Tyson Lu, Ko Lin, “Taitung balloon festival attracts over 1 million visitors this year”, in Focus Taiwan‎^[18], archived from the original on 16 August 2022, Culture:

  Just a day after the hot air balloon festival concluded, an international skydiving event opened Tuesday at the same venue over the Luye Highlands and will last until Aug. 24, the Taitung City government said in a statement.