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Lai Pin-yu
Lai Pin-yu (; born 2 March 1992) is a Taiwanese politician and lawyer of the Democratic Progressive Party who was elected to the Legislative Yuan in 2020. She is also a cosplayer. Education and early activism Lai was born on 2 March 1992 in Zhonghe, Taipei County, Taiwan. She is the daughter of the Democratic Progressive Party politician Lai Chin-lin and his wife Wu Ju-ping (吳如萍), a media worker. Lai obtained her bachelor's degree in law from National Taipei University in 2013. After the appearance of the and the in 2012 caused by the death of Hung Chung-chiu, Lai began to participate in many social movements in person. During Chen Deming's 26 November 2013 visit with Chairman of Straits Exchange Foundation Lin Join-sane, more than 20 students from the Black Island Youth Front, dissatisfied with Chen's pressure on the Cross-Strait Service Trade Agreement, planned to hold a placard to protest near the foundation headquarters. They immediately clashed with the pol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lai (surname)
Lai () is a common Chinese surname that is pronounced similarly in both Mandarin and Hakka dialects. The meaning of the character used in the Lai (賴) surname is "depend on; trust in; rely on". It is also a Hokkien (Southern Fujian)/ Minnan (Southern Min) surname that is romanized as Lua, Nai or Nua. In Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines and other parts of Southeast Asia there are Lai migrants from southern Fujian Province who are usually surnamed Lua/ Luah, Loa (romanized from Hokkien / Minnan in Southern Min dialect) or Lye (romanized from Hakka dialect) for the Hakka dialect groups. In Sri Lanka, Lye is a common surname among Sri Lankan Malays of Peranakan Chinese descent. In Indonesia, most of the Indonesians of Chinese descent changed their surname to an Indonesian surname to comply with 'Cabinet Presidium Decision 127 of 1966' laws during President Suharto's despotic rule. However, they usually change to surnames with the same sound or a surname which contains a par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lin Join-sane
Lin Join-sane (; born 17 December 1944) is a Taiwanese politician. He was the chairman of the Straits Exchange Foundation from 27 September 2012 until 20 May 2016. KMT Secretary-General Lin served as the Secretary-General of the Kuomintang from February to September 2012. Yu Chang Biologics Co. Case In August 2012, commenting on the Yu Chang Biologics Co. case regarding former Democratic Progressive Party Chairperson Tsai Ing-wen's illicit transaction related to the funding of the company and that Tsai fought back by filing criminal charges towards Vice President Wu Den-yih, Lin responded by saying that officials involved in the case had clarified themselves and said that KMT respected the prosecutor's decision not to indict Tsai. Lin called on her not to divert public attention and should take moral responsibility. SEF chairmanship First mainland China visit In mid of October 2012, Lin visited mainland China for the very first time. While in the mainland, he met with Wang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
96th United States Congress
The 96th United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, composed of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, D.C. from January 3, 1979, to January 3, 1981, during the last two years of Jimmy Carter's presidency. The apportionment of seats in this House of Representatives was based on the 1970 census. Both chambers retained a Democratic majority (though downgraded from the supermajority status in the previous Congress), and with President Carter, maintained an overall federal government trifecta. This is the last Congress in which the Democrats retained a trifecta for more than one term. This is the most recent Congress to feature a Democratic senator from Idaho, Frank Church, who lost re-election in 1980. Major events * March 28, 1979: Partial nuclear meltdown at Three Mile Island * July 11, 1979: Skylab began its return to Earth * November 4, 1979: Iran hostage ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taiwan Relations Act
The Taiwan Relations Act (TRA; ) is an Act of Congress, act of the United States Congress. Since the Joint Communiqué on the Establishment of Diplomatic Relations, formal recognition of the China, People's Republic of China, the Act has defined the officially substantial but non-diplomatic relations between the United States of America and Taiwan (Republic of China). Background At The Third Plenum in 1978, Deng Xiaoping became the paramount leader of the China, People's Republic of China (PRC), definitively ending Maoism, Maoist rule and beginning the Gaige Kaifang, reform era of Chinese history. During his speech at the plenum, he outlined a new Foreign relations of China#People.27s Republic of China, Chinese foreign policy, whereby the Soviet Union—not the United States, as in the past—was identified as the main National security of the People's Republic of China, national security threat to China. During this time, China regarded itself as in a "united front" with the U.S. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Treaty Of San Francisco
The , also called the , re-established peaceful relations between Japan and the Allied Powers on behalf of the United Nations by ending the legal state of war, military occupation and providing for redress for hostile actions up to and including World War II. It was signed by 49 nations on 8 September 1951, in San Francisco, United States, at the War Memorial Opera House. Italy and China were not invited, the latter due to disagreements on whether the Republic of China or the People's Republic of China represented the Chinese people. Korea was also not invited due to a similar disagreement on whether South Korea or North Korea represented the Korean people. The treaty came into force on April 28, 1952. It ended Japan's role as an imperial power, allocated compensation to Allied nations and former prisoners of war who had suffered Japanese war crimes during World War II, ended the Allied post-war occupation of Japan, and returned full sovereignty to it. This treaty relied hea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1943 Cairo Declaration
The Cairo Declaration (Traditional Chinese: 《開羅宣言》) was the outcome of the Cairo Conference in Cairo, Egypt, on 27 November 1943. President Franklin Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882April 12, 1945), also known as FDR, was the 32nd president of the United States, serving from 1933 until his death in 1945. He is the longest-serving U.S. president, and the only one to have served ... of the United States, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Prime Minister Winston Churchill of the United Kingdom, and President of the Republic of China, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek of the Republic of China (1912–1949), Republic of China were present. The declaration developed ideas from the 1941 Atlantic Charter, which was issued by the Allies of World War II to set goals for the post-war order. The ''Cairo Communiqué'' was broadcast through radio on 1 December 1943. Text "The several military missions have agreed upon future military operations agains ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ministry Of Education (Taiwan)
The Ministry of Education (MOE; ; Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: ''Kau-yuk Phu'') is the ministry of Taiwan responsible for incorporating educational policies and managing public schools and it oversees the educational administrative agencies of local governments. History The Taiwanese education ministry's origin goes back to the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture under the Empire of Japan, Imperial Japanese government, which took over Taiwan in 1895. During Taiwan under Japanese rule, Japanese colonial rule, school attendance for Taiwanese children increased from 3.8% in 1904 to 71.3% in 1943 and literacy in Taiwan became common. Modern schools were formed with widespread establishment of primary schools while higher schooling for Taiwanese people remained rare and secondary schools and colleges were mostly for Japanese nationals. In special cases many Taiwanese did receive higher schooling and many went to Japan for further studies. The current government of Taiwan, offici ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
蘋果日報 (台灣)
''Apple Daily'' ( zh, t=蘋果日報, p=Píngguǒ Rìbào, poj=Pîn-kó Ji̍t-pò) was a Chinese-language Tabloid (newspaper format), tabloid published in Taiwan, known for its sensational headlines, paparazzi photographs, and animated news videos. The paper was owned by Next Digital (fka Next Media), which published an Apple Daily, eponymous newspaper in Hong Kong. ''Apple Daily'' (Taiwan) published its last printed edition on 17 May 2021, and operated its website until 31 August 2022, before rebranding itself as Next Apple News. History After Jimmy Lai found Next Media Taiwan in late 2000 and started a Taiwanese version of ''Next Magazine (Hong Kong and Taiwan), Next Magazine'', preparations began for the launch of a Taiwanese version of ''Apple Daily'' in 2003, with senior journalists from ''China Times'' and ''United Daily News'' being taken on. Both these newspapers and the ''Liberty Times'', the "big three" in Taiwanese journalism, initially blocked ''Apple Daily'' first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neon Genesis Evangelion
, also known as ''Evangelion'' or ''Eva'', is a Japanese mecha anime television series produced by Gainax and Tatsunoko Production, and directed by Hideaki Anno. It was broadcast on TV Tokyo and its affiliates from October 1995 to March 1996. The story is set fifteen years after a worldwide cataclysm in the futuristic fortified city of Tokyo-3. The protagonist is Shinji Ikari, a teenage boy recruited by his father Gendo to the mysterious organization Nerv. Shinji must pilot an Evangelion, a giant biomechanical mecha, to fight beings known as Angels. The series explores the experiences and emotions of the Evangelion pilots and Nerv members as they battle Angels. They are called upon to understand the ultimate cause of events and the motives behind human action. The series has been described as a deconstruction of the mecha genre, and features archetypal imagery derived from Shinto cosmology and mystical Judeo-Christian traditions, including Midrashic tales and Kabbalah. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rei Ayanami
is a fictional character from the ''Neon Genesis Evangelion'' franchise created by Gainax. In the anime series of the same name, Rei is an introverted girl chosen as the enigmatic pilot of a giant mecha named Evangelion Unit 00. At the beginning of the series, Rei is a mysterious figure whose unusual behavior astonishes her peers. As the series progresses, she becomes more involved with the people around her, particularly her classmate and fellow Eva pilot, Shinji Ikari. Rei appears in the franchise's animated feature films and related media, video games, the original net animation '' Petit Eva: Evangelion@School'', the ''Rebuild of Evangelion'' films, and the manga adaptation by Yoshiyuki Sadamoto. Hideaki Anno, director of the animated series, conceived her as a representation of his unconscious. He was also influenced by his readings on psychology, particularly Freudian psychoanalysis, taking inspiration from Freud's theories on the Oedipus complex. Other influences fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SET News
SET News (SETN; ) is a 24-hour news channel of the Sanlih E-Television in Taiwan, launched in March 1998. SET News and sister channel SET iNews are considered media outlets leaning towards the Pan-Green coalition. SET News is available on YouTube with its Digital on-screen graphic, DOG reading ''Sanlih LIVE Hsinwen'' (). Since April 2022, this stream is available only outside Taiwan, a move also made by competitors EBC News and TVBS apparently because of dissatisfaction of the cable operators; SET replaced it with a non-geoblocked stream of sister channel SET iNews labeled as ''Sanlih+'' (三立+). See also *SET iNews (sister channel launched as SET Finance in 2011) References External linksSET News official website 1998 establishments in Taiwan Television channels and stations established in 1998 24-hour television news channels in Taiwan Television news in Taiwan Sanlih E-Television {{taiwan-tv-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Selfies
A selfie () is a self-portrait photograph or a short video, typically taken with an electronic camera or smartphone. The camera would be usually held at arm's length or supported by a selfie stick instead of being controlled with a self-timer or remote. The concept of shooting oneself while viewing their own image in the camera's LCD monitor is also known as self-recording. ''Selfie'', as it has become known, is one of the most popular forms of self-portraiture in modern life. The availability of current apparatus allows anyone to produce a self-portrait. Selfies are often shared on social media, via social networking services such as Facebook, Instagram, Threads, Twitter, and Snapchat. Video selfies longer than several minutes are more likely to fall into vlog category. A selfie may include multiple subjects; as long as the photo is being taken by one of the subjects featured, it is considered a selfie. However, some other terms for selfies with multiple people include u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
