Citations:Pingtung

English citations of Pingtung

City

• 1945 December, Resumption of United States Trade with the Far East: Reopening of Commercial Channels and Relaxation of Trade Controls‎^[1], Far Eastern Unit, Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, →OCLC, page 3:

  Formosa: Prewar conditions in Formosa were described in an article in FOREIGN COMMERCE WEEKLY of January 1, 1944. According to an announcement of the official Chinese News Service, there are to be 8 chief administrative subdivisions of Formosa. Although it is not known that their boundary lines will exactly coincide with those of the provinces under Japanese rule, this is probable. Names of the new hsien (districts), with corresponding Japanese province names in parentheses, are as follows: Taipei (Taihoku); Hsinchu (Shinchiku); Taichung (Taichu); Tainan (Tainan); Kaohsiung (Takao); Hwalienkan (Karenko); and Taitung (Taito). The Pescadores Islands form the eighth hsien. Nine cities will continue to be recognized as municipalities: Taipei (Taihoku); Taichung (Taichu); Tainan (Tainan); Chilung (Kiirun or Keelung); Kaohsiung (Takao); Hsinchu (Shinchiku); Chiayi (Kagi); Changhua (Shoka); and Pintung (Heito).

• 1949, “Index”, in Code of Federal Regulations‎^[2], Government Printing Office, published 1949, →ISSN, →OCLC, Title 4—Title 5, pages 306–307:

  §325.15 Designation of differential posts. The following places are designated as differential posts at which each eligible employee shall be paid additional compensation in the form of a foreign post differential in accordance with the regulation in this part:
  (a) At the rate of 25 percent of basic compensation: […]
  Pingtung, Taiwan China. […]
  Taichung, Taiwan, China. […]
  Tsoying, Taiwan, China.

• 1998, Linda Chao, Ramon H. Myers, The First Chinese Democracy‎^[3], Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 85:

  Under Japanese colonial rule, Pingtung city and its environs had been famous for anti-Japanese activities. After retrocession, the KMT local cadres used local factions to establish their influence and control.

• 2017 November 30, Eryk Michael Smith, “Pingtung City is Dying, Why Not Give it to Kaohsiung?”, in The News Lens‎^[4], archived from the original on 05 December 2017‎^[5]:

  Republic of China (ROC) stats claim Pingtung City had 189,000 residents in 1981, and by 2016, the figure had anemically inched up to 201,000. Fertility rates in the city are the lowest after Keelung City. Pundits on TV discuss rumors the number of legislators representing Pingtung City will again be cut in the next election cycle due to population.

• 2022 June 17, Steven Crook, “Highways & Byways: Honoring ancestors in Taiwan’s deep south”, in Taipei Times‎^[6], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 June 2022, Features, page 13‎^[7]:

  Twenty minutes’ drive south of the Gong Family Ancient House, in the northern part of Pingtung City, the Chonglan Hsiao Family Shrine (崇蘭蕭氏家廟) is the beautiful legacy of an influential local family.

County

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• 1953 February 9, Harold Lavine, “Chiang's Troops: They Are Rarin' to Fight Back”, in Newsweek‎^[8], volume XLI, number 6, page 33:

  Another obvious deficiency of the Nationalists is their lack of understanding of the importance of maintaining equipment. They're great at repairing equipment, but they also have a talent for wrecking it. At the Pingtung air base is a hangar full of airplane engines, 101 of them at last count. They haven't run a mile, and they are rotten with rust.

• 1972, The Ambassador in China (Stuart) to the Secretary of State (Foreign Relations of the United States 1947)‎^[9], volume 7, numbers 894A.00/11-447, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, page 468:

  Following article was published in Central News Agency's English Bulletin of October 28, 1947:
  "President of the Executive Yuan, Chang Chun, returned to the capital at 2:50 this afternoon from Taiwan, after having taken off from Pingtung, Taiwan at 10:40 in the morning.

• 1983 January 30, “Aboriginal cultural park”, in Free China Weekly‎^[10], volume XXIV, number 5, Taipei, page 2:

  The Taiwan Provincial Government has decided to spend US$6.4 million in three years starting this fiscal year to build a tourist recreation park near Fuku Bay in Pingtung county in Southern Taiwan.

• 2014, Ed Lin, Ghost Month‎^[11], Soho Press, →ISBN, page 207:

  "This is really a genuine Paiwan outfit?" I asked.
  "Absolutely," said Jenny. "The gods smile upon anyone who wears this. That's why it feels so uncomfortable. They feel your suffering and your sacrifice."
  "It hurts, all right," said Nancy.
  "It's painful to look at, too!" I said. Nancy slapped my shoulder.
  "It's the real thing," said the girl with the innocent face. "I'm from Pingtung. My grandmother was part Paiwan."

• 2016 July 28, Tyrone Siu, “Taiwan's temple factory”, in Reuters‎^[12], archived from the original on 31 July 2016:

  Lin oversees up to 20 builds at a single time at his vast indoor facility in Taiwan's southern county of Pingtung, employing around 100 people to fill the demand for prefabricated temples of different sizes, as well as statues of deities.

• 2016 September 14, Jane Onyanga-Omara, Doyle Rice, “Typhoon Meranti slams into China after battering Taiwan”, in USA Today‎^[13], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 September 2016, Weather‎^[14]:

  Rainfall totals in excess of 20 inches were measured in the mountains of Taiwan, while Taiwu Township in Pingtung County recorded just over 30 inches of rain.

• 2017 July 30, Ralph Jennings, “Typhoon injures 111 in Taiwan as another storm approaches”, in AP News‎^[15], archived from the original on 20 June 2022:

  The typhoon also left shops and streets in agricultural Pingtung county knee deep in muddy water after dumping about 600 millimeters (24 inches) of rain.

• 2017 July 31, Russell Goldman, “On Heels of Typhoon Nesat, a Second Storm Hits Taiwan”, in The New York Times‎^[16], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 01 August 2017, Asia Pacific‎^[17]:

  A family walked through floodwaters in Pingtung County in southern Taiwan on Saturday, as Typhoon Nesat drenched the island.

• 2020 September, Lan-Shu (曾蘭淑) Tseng, “公部門刊物華麗變身《Amazing Pingtung》、《本事》 [The Metamorphosis of Government Magazines—Amazing Pingtung and Benshi]”, in 台灣光華雜誌 [Taiwan Panorama]‎^[18], volume 45, number 9, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 21, column 1:

  Hou has been well regarded since her earlier days editing magazines for Pingtung's Taiwu Township and Mutan Township, with some remarking at the time that "these township magazines are better produced than central government magazines."

• 2022 June 19, Jake Chung, “Name of new TRA depot must reflect location: Su”, in Taipei Times‎^[19], archived from the original on 18 June 2022:

  The name of a train depot in Pingtung County should be changed to highlight that the Taiwan Railways Administration’s (TRA) western main line begins there, Premier Su Tseng-chang (蘇貞昌) said yesterday at the site’s opening ceremony.
  At the new Kaohsiung Railway Workshop Depot, which was relocated to Pingtung’s Chaojhou Township (潮州), only 18 workers are needed to service a train within just 40 minutes, Su said.

• 2022 August 8, “China extends threatening military exercises around Taiwan”, in AP News‎^[20], archived from the original on 08 August 2022:

  Meanwhile, Taiwan’s official Central News Agency reported that Taiwan’s army will conduct live-fire artillery drills in southern Pingtung county on Tuesday and Thursday, in response to the Chinese exercises.

• 2022 August 10, Kuan-ting Liu, Wang Cheng-chung, Evelyn Kao, “KMT vice chairman makes controversial visit to China”, in Focus Taiwan‎^[21], archived from the original on 10 August 2022, Cross-Strait:

  At the same time, a member of the KMT's younger generation, Pingtung County Councilor Huang Ming-hsien (黃明賢), launched a petition earlier Wednesday calling on Hsia to cancel the trip.

• 2022 August 11, “Taiwan holds military drill after China repeats threats”, in France 24‎^[22], archived from the original on 11 August 2022‎^[23]:

  The exercise in Taiwan's southernmost county of Pingtung began at 0830 am local time (0030 GMT) and lasted about an hour, he said.
  Artillery tucked in from the coast was lined up side by side, with armed soldiers in units firing the howitzers out to sea one after the other, a livestream showed.
  Taiwan held a similar drill on Tuesday in Pingtung. Both included the deployments of hundreds of troops, the military said.