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Taipei, May 1 (CNA) The Southern Cross-Island Highway, which links Tainan City on the west coast to Taitung City on the east, officially reopened Sunday, after 13 years of reconstruction work since it was devastated by Typhoon Morakot in 2009.
Taipei, May 1 (CNA) On the first day of its full reopening after 13 years, the Southern Cross-Island Highway saw heavy traffic that caused congestion at entrances to the highway as well as a tunnel located at the highway's highest elevation.
Only in the final decade of its 50-year occupation of Taiwan did Japan make a serious effort to introduce the Shinto religion to its colony. After the launch in 1937 of the Kominka Movement — an attempt to bury historical and cultural connections between Taiwan and China beneath pro-Tokyo sentiment — Taiwanese were encouraged to speak Japanese, adopt Japanese names and embrace facets of Japanese culture, including Shintoism. In the space of a few years, the number of Shinto shrines around the island quickly rose from fewer than a score to more than 200. At many of these places of
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US-based Web site The Drive on March 8 reported that China’s largest military transport aircraft, the Xian Y-20 — which is said to have a payload of 66 tonnes, a maximum range of 4,211 nautical miles (7,799km) and a top speed of 500 nautical miles per hour (926kph) — landed at Belgrade airport in Serbia, a landlocked Balkan nation that is of great geopolitical importance, after a short refueling stop in Turkey. With the HQ-22 medium/long-range semi-active radar homing/radio-command guidance surface-to-air missile developed by China transported by the aircraft, China is no longer being di...