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2006

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July

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July 15, 2006 (S)

  • Typhoon Bilis leaves behind mudslides, eight damaged roads, one damaged railway, and at least NT$ 82.49 million in damages to agricultural crops in its wake [1].

July 14, 2006 (F)

  • The National Palace Museum has lent duplicate portraits of Genghis Khan and his grandson Khubilai Khan to Mongolia which is celebrating the 800th anniversary of his enthronement. Genghis Khan conquered many lands and united them under the largest contiguous empire in world history. His grandson, Khubilai established the Yuan dynasty in China and was its first emperor [3].

July 13, 2006 (Th)

July 11, 2006 (Tu)

July 10, 2006 (M)

July 7, 2006 (F)

  • State-owned Chinese Petroleum Corporation has raised its oil prices for the third time this year as a result of the increase in crude oil procurement costs and the increasing international crude oil prices which had at one point reached US$ 75 per barrel. The company expects to suffer a total loss of NT$ 50 billion (US$ 1.53 billion) for the 2006 fiscal year. [13].

July 6, 2006 (Th)

  • The ROC government sends independence day greetings to Malawi which gained independence from the United Kingdom in 1964. Malawi is one of the ROC's oldest allies having established diplomatic relations for 40 years [16].
  • President Chen Shui-bian has expressed his hopes for a national soccer team to compete in the 2018 FIFA World Cup and proposed the government select twenty children below the age of 10 to be trained at the best soccer schools in Brazil with all expenses paid. Some experts are skeptical as he had made a similar appeal four years ago [18].
  • The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has expelled Taipei city councilmen Lo Tsung-sheng (羅宗勝) and Hsu Fu-nan (許富男)from the party in the latest discliplinary move [19].
  • Twenty-two new academicians have been elected to the nation's foremost institution, the Academia Sinica. The number of newly elected academicians was also the smallest in the institution's 78-year history [20]
  • The Consumers' Foundation has warned Taipei residents to exert caution when purchasing fresh fruit juice after 27 of 30 samples were found to exceed acceptable levels of germ count. Two contained E. Coli and eight contained staphylococcus aureus. Consumers are advised to keep fresh fruit juice refrigerated below five degrees Celsius and avoid consuming fresh fruit juice that has been left at room temperature for more than two hours [21].

July 5, 2006 (W)

July 4, 2006 (Tu)

  • The ROC government has blocked the state-owned Chinese Petroleum Corporation from raising fuel prices after it posted losses of as much as NT$ 2 billion (US$ 62 million) a month on gas prices [23].
  • Customs officers bust the largest Ivory smuggling case in ROC history seizing over 350 pieces of ivory worth more than NT$ 100 million and weighing a total of over two tons. The ivory shipment was found in two containers from Tanzania bound for the Philippines located at a wharf in Kaohsiung Harbor[26].
  • Academia Sinica president Lee Yuan Tseh in a speech criticized the government's policies on giving incentives to increase the sharply declining population to support the aging society. He states that Taiwan's population density at 600 people per km2 was the second highest in the world and has suggested raising the retirement age to combat the problem instead [28].
  • A survey conducted by Importers and Exporters Association of Taipei found that 55 percent of exporters were dissatisfied with the ROC's overall foreign trade climate. Around 90 percent of domestic importers and exporters cited price hikes in raw materials and oil prices as hindering their business [29].

July 3, 2006 (M)

June

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June 30, 2006 (F)

  • Taiwan's oldest night market, the Chien-Cheng Circle is to close on Sunday (July 2) after nearly 100 years of operation. [31]
  • The PRC has voiced strong opposition to the US House of Representatives approval of a bill which would lift a decades-old ban on high-level governmental contacts with the ROC. The bill requires approval from the US Senate to be passed as legislation. [32]

June 29, 2006 (Th)

  • A nationwide survey conducted by the magazine Global Views Monthly found that Japan (47.5%), United States (40.3%) and the PRC (15.8%) were ranked at the top out of 166 nations in terms of nations that respondents admired the most. [33]
  • President Chen Shui-bian renews his sovereignty pledge and has stated he will not allow Taiwan to become the second Hong Kong during the remainder of his presidential term. [34]
  • Mayor of Irvine (California) Beth Krom apologizes after staff signed a sister city pact in late May with Xuhui District (Shanghai) which formally disavows existence of the ROC amongst other promises. [35]
  • June 27, 2006: The legislative committee has decided to send a delegation to the United States next month as part of a review of government policy of reopening its market to US beef imports after doubts were raised due to the discovery of bone fragments in a shipment last April. [37]
  • June 27, 2006: Taipei is the first city in the world to roll out a city-wide Wi-Fi network called Wi-fly covering 90% of the city with 4,000 hot spots serving a city population of 2.6 million. [38]
  • June 27, 2006: President Chen Shui-bian survives a parliamentary attempt to oust him from office. [39]


  • June 14, 2006: The Cabinet approves a new weapons procurement budget of NT$ 6.3 billion (US$ 197 million) [41].

May

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April

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2005

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October

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  • October 22, 2005: The Republic of China to violate Tamiflu patent due to vaccine shortage: The shortage of the antiviral, Tamiflu, has prompted the ROC to begin work on copying the antiviral without the consent of its manufacturer and patent holder, the Swiss pharmaceutical company Hoffmann-La Roche. Though officials have requested permission from Roche, they are not waiting on a response to begin work, citing the need to protect the public.(Wikinews)

September

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  • September 26, 2006: Japan exempts visa requirements for residents in Taiwan visiting Japan for a period of up to 90 days [45].

April

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2004

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December

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2003

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June

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  • June 12, 2003: Minister of Foreign Affairs, Eugene Chien (簡又新) announces that new R.O.C. passports to be issued from September 1 will include the word "Taiwan" printed in Roman letters on the cover [46].