Hsinpei

English

Alternative forms

• Xinbei (Hanyu Pinyin)

Etymology

From Mandarin 新北 (Xīnběi) Wade–Giles romanization: Hsin¹-pei³.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃɪnˈbeɪ/

Proper noun

Hsinpei

1. Synonym of New Taipei
   • 2009 October 6, “Blue Camp Needs to Overcome Crisis in Six Local Elections”, in Kuomintang Official Website‎^[1], archived from the original on 06 March 2023, General News‎^[2]:

     Editor’s note: Five special municipalities are Taipei City, Hsinpei (Xinbei) City (two tentative transliterations), Taichung City, Tainan City, and Kaohsiung City. Registration for the local elections 2009 will close on Friday.

   • 2011 May 29, “Taiwan: Hsinpei City Council Passes Bill Denying Entry to Human Rights Violators (Photo)”, in Minghui.org‎^[3], archived from the original on 06 March 2023‎^[4]:

     On May 12, 2011, the Council of Hsinpei City, Taiwan passed a provisional bill calling on the central government to deny entry of human rights violators. The bill further stated that cities that respect human rights do not invite, welcome or accept human right violators. Hsinpei is the 16th local council to pass such a human rights bill. On May 25, the council members who proposed the bill held a press conference.

   • 2017, Yumiko Nakahara, “Foreign Laborers: Status and Problems”, in International Labor Mobility to and from Taiwan‎^[5], Springer, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 94:

     Citizens who report employers, brokerage firms, or foreign laborers on the run receive up to TWD 70,000 per case.²⁸ In 2015, this reward was increased from 50,000 to encourage reporting,²⁹ but it creates a problem because some people who want the reward visit employers that hire Indonesians or Vietnamese to check whether they are illegal, which bothers those employers. Thus, for example, the Labor Affairs Department of Hsinpei city asks citizens to stop this practice (United Daily News, Oct. 17, 2015). That is, the reward system is not necessarily effective.

   • 2018 December 28, “Press Release”, in Taiwan Taipei District Prosecutors Office‎^[6], archived from the original on 06 March 2023, page 2:

     After investigation on illegal election acts including vote buying or false household registration within our jurisdiction, the Office filed invalid-election civil lawsuits in the Taipei District Court in accordance with the said Act against the elected Neighborhood Chiefs Mr/Ms Chou of Taipei City Wanhua District, Chen of Hsinpei City Pinglin District, Yang of Hsinpei City Shiding District, Chou of Hsinpei City Wulai District, and Resident Representatives Mr/Ms Wu, Chien, Lin and Chu in order to uphold the fairness and democracy of election.

   • 2020, “2020 Annual Shareholders’ Meeting Agenda”, in Highwealth Construction Corporation‎^[7], archived from the original on 06 March 2023, page 8:

     Highwealth Group will continue to purchase land in Keelung, Taipei, Hsinpei, Taoyuan, Hsinchu, Taichung, Tainan, and Kaohsiung districts in 2020, and set foot in restaurants, shopping malls, hotels, and other new businesses.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Hsinpei.