Meaning of Taipeh | Babel Free

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Dated spelling of Taipei.

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“OPIUM SMOKING LICENSES are issued in connection with the Government Laboratory at Taipeh, where the imported opium is refined and put⟳, in three different qualities, into 1-lb. tins for distribution and sale to licence-holders.”

“From his lofty holiday resort on the Sun and Moon Lake in inland Formosa, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek last⟳ week scurried back to his forest-cloaked GHQ on Mount⟳ Tsao, overlooking Taipeh, the island's capital.”

“In August 1950 the Council rejected its Russian president’s proposal that a Peking representative should be invited under Article 32. This would have⟳ implied recognition of communist China as a state; and the Council, by a slim majority, was committed to the view⟳ that China was still legally represented by the government that had fled to Taipeh in 1949.”

“The Republic of China had to withdraw⟳ from the UN as early as 1971; most of the world's countries maintain⟳ diplomatic relations with Peking only. Taipeh has thus become⟳ a political outcast.”

“The 452m/ l,484ft-high Petronas Towers stand⟳ in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) and the »king of skyscrapers« is the 509m/ 1,670ft Taipeh 101 in Taipeh, the capital city of Taiwan.”

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