Fun Facts About Taiwan

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Taiwan won the 1996 slight League World Series in the U.S city of Williamsport. Baseball is the national sport in Taiwan.

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Like France, Italy and the United States, Taiwan is very illustrious for its films in the world. The prizes attained comprise the Golden Lion awarded by the Venice International Film Festival to Hou Hsiao-hsien´s "City of Sadness"(1989). In 2001, Ang Lee´s "Crouching, Tiger, secret Dragon" won four Oscars at the 73rd yearly Academy Awards: Best Foreign Language Film, Best Art Direction, Best Music, and Best Art Cinematography.He is thought about one of the best film directors of all times. Ang Lee was born on October 23, 1954, in Pingting, Taiwan.

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Lu Hsiu-lien is vice president of Taiwan since 18 March 2000. On December 9, 2001, she became the first woman to be awarded the World Peace Prize from the World Peace Corps Academy. Lu Hsiu-lien was born on June 7, 1944, in Taoyuan, Taiwan.

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Taiwan hosted the Miss Universe pageant in 1988. Ironically, Miss Taiwan, Jade Hu Fei-tsui, did not even make the semi-finals.

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Different from Cuba, Myanmar and Vietnam, Taiwan is a democratic country. Leisure and democracy are more than just slogans in Taiwan. The first narrative of the Constitution National says: "The Republic of China (or Taiwan), founded on the Three ideas of the People, shall be a democratic republic of the people, to be governed by the citizen and for the people".

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Taiwan competed at the 1973 Summer Olympics in Munich,West Germany. The Taiwanese delegation had 22 athletes competitive in ten sports: track and field (8), boxing (1), wrestling (1), judo(4), weighlifting (1), cycling (1), shooting(1), archery (1), swimming (3), and sailing (1).

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Taiwan is slightly bigger than Belgium.

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The Nobel Prize for Chemistry was awarded to Lee Yuan-tseh. He was born on November 19, 1936, in Hsinchu, Taiwan.

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After Cold War, Taiwan emerged as one of the most superior economies in the Third World.

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Taipei, the capital city of Taiwan, is the Asia capital of art and culture. It gathers some of the most illustrious museums in Asia. Taipei´s National Palace Museum has the world´s largest variety of oriental art treasures. Much of the immense variety of porcelain, jade, sculptures, paintings, and bronzes is ordinarily rotated.
The National Museum of Prehistory is a illustrious Taiwanese museum situated adjacent to the Puyuma archeological site in Taitung County.

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On November 9, 1961, Miss Taiwan, Grace Li, competed in the international attractiveness pageant Miss World, held in London, England.
Miss Taiwan was the first runner-up at the Miss World 1961.She was long thought about one of the most beautiful women in Taiwan.

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Master Chen Yen is known by many as "The mum Teresa of Asia".She is an advocate for the poor and homeless in Asia.In 1996, Chen Yen was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for her fight against poverty.She once said: " The Buddha became the Buddha because he gave up his life to save people. Donating our bone marrow does no harm to us. We can save citizen without hurting ourselves. So, I hope you donate. I also hope to set up a Data Bank of 20,000 donors, or 50,000 donors, or 100,000. If there is a Bank of 100,000, the opportunity for a outpatient to be saved will be as high as 95%."

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Taiwan has competed in the Winter Olympic Games 9 times (Sapporo-1972, Innsbruck-1976, Sarajevo-1984, Calgary-1988, Albertville-1992,Lillehammer-1994, Nagano-1998,Salt Lake City-2002, and Turin-2006).

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