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This tool converts pinyin and tone numbers into pinyin with tone marks above the correct vowels. It's fully written in Javascript, so it's very fast and doesn't require page loads.

In this video, Benoit Vermander of Taipei Ricci Institute and Renlai monthly comments on the visit of PCR representative Chen Yunlin in Taiwan and the events that followed.

On December 15, 7:20 a.m., Beijing Time, a Shenzhen Airlines flight left the Shenzhen Airport for Taiwan the first between the Chinese mainland and Taiwan, the latest step to further improve the once strained relationship. Across the Taiwan trait, a passenger plane of Taiwan-based TransAsia Airways took off from Taipei Songshan Airport for Shanghai at 8:06 a.m.

This tool is used to display the phoenetic pronunciation (i.e. pinyin) when you hold the mouse over a Chinese Character. It also displays a neato HELP question mark, as well as a dotted line underneath the text to tell the readers that there’s a little something else waiting for them.

Can you imagine what Taiwan looked like 50 years ago? Bob Ronald just celebrated his 50 years living in Taiwan, he shares here his first impressions when arrived to the island. You might be surprised as it might not be so far from one's more actual experience...

Google has released a Pinyin-based character-input method for Windows systems. It offers a number of special features … download the program from this page.

A ESWN translation of a well-written article by Lung Ying-tai regarding the near ousting of Taiwan president Chen Shui-bian. The story uses this event to give a picture of modern day democracy in Taiwan.

Taiwan has revised its high-school history textbooks to show that Taiwan is an independent country and not part of China, media reports said Monday.

The China Times said that on the education ministry's order, the title of the national history textbook for high-school - to be used after the winter vacation - has been changed from 'National History' to 'China History'.

In this textbook, terms like 'our country,' 'this country' and 'the mainland' have been changed to 'China' to indicate that Taiwan is not part of China, the daily said.

Lin Chiling is a superstar in Taiwan and China, or just China if you think Taiwan belongs to the mainland.