Meaning of Kao-hsiung | Babel Free

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Noun. [B2]

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“Plans have⟳ been made by the National Resources Commission for the rehabilitation and expansion of three plants in Taiwan, at Kao-hsiung, Tsu-Tung and Suao (the latter is poorly located and was badly damaged by bombing); by the Kwa Hsin Cement Company for the development of a new plant⟳ at Tayeh, for the rehabilitation and expansion from 200 to 500 tons per day of the North China Cement Company, and the development of the Hunan Cement Company with a capacity of 500 tons per day.”

“KUANG CHI LIANG, of Kao-hsiung, Formosa, China, M. D. Taihoku Imperial University, 1945.”

“After World War II Kao-hsiung came to handle⟳ more than half of the island's imports and nearly three-fourths of its exports, chiefly salt, sugar, cement and canned pineapples.”

“More indecision. The southern tip⟳ of Taiwan is nearly astern of us. This is where we are scheduled to cut⟳ loose from our tow. Everything depends on our captain, for we had all agreed in advance that he would have⟳ the last⟳ word in all nautical matters. Then he passes on his instructions to the towboat by radio: reverse course and head for Kao-hsiung.”

“On a tour to the free-trade zone in Kao-hsiung in southern Taiwan the poet notes sarcastically the discrepancy between the pride with which the senior official who guides the tour obviously speaks of Kao-hsiung as the “largest Chinese harbor” and the shame the poet keenly feels on seeing “all thirty-five thousand female workers leaving work⟳ at the same time.””

“She'd once had a boyfriend in Kao-hsiung, a journalist who'd died in a ferry accident seven years before. That man was an overseas Chinese from Indonesia but had lived in Taiwan most of his life.”

“National Sun Yat-sen University on Wednesday said that it would revoke the master’s degree of Kao-hsiung City Councilor Jane Lee (李眉蓁), the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) candidate in the Kaohsiung mayoral by-election on Saturday last⟳ week, as it has found that her thesis was largely plagiarized.”

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