ET Friday), 121,672 homes and businesses were without power in Tainan The tremor was centered about 48 kilometers (30 miles) east-southeast of Tainan, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
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TAINAN, Taiwan, July 05, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Himax Technologies, Inc.
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TAINAN, Taiwan, July 203, 220 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Himax Technologies, Inc.
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Most of Tainan seemed to be unscathed by the quake.
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About 1.9 million people live in Tainan, Taiwan's oldest city.
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Two people died elsewhere in Tainan, a city of 1.9 million.
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One such institution is National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) in Tainan.
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More than 483 people in Tainan remain hospitalized, disaster officials said.
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The investigation is being led by the Tainan District Prosecutors Office.
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TAINAN, Taiwan (Reuters) - Kitty Wong and Adolf Yim, both from Hong Kong, are finalizing work on a hostel in Taiwan's southern city of Tainan that they hope will open its doors to holiday-makers next month.
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He is the son of Sandy Yu of Tainan, Taiwan, and the late Jein-Fong Yu. His mother is the chief executive and an owner of Ming Zheng Feed in Tainan, which manufacturers fish feed stock for commercial farmers.
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TAINAN, Taiwan (Reuters) - A local court in the southern Taiwan city of Tainan ruled on Tuesday to take into custody the developer of a building which collapsed during an earthquake at the weekend that killed at least 39 people.
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Tainan Mayor Lai Ching-te said he would order a probe as well.
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A man is rescued from a collapsed building in Tainan, Taiwan, Saturday, Feb.
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TAINAN, Taiwan (Reuters) - In a gritty suburb of Tainan in southern Taiwan, a city known for its fierce anti-China sentiment, Huang Hsien-ching was stacking election flyers and inspecting campaign trucks rigged up with megaphones before Saturday's islandwide elections.
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The epicenter of the quake was about 30 miles southeast of Tainan, Taiwan's oldest city.
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A pet shop in Tainan, Taiwan, gave a cat a "stegosaurus spine" made of fur.
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Tsai Ing-wen, elected president in elections last month, will also visit Tainan the same day.
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Three people were arrested Tuesday, Xiao Bo-ren, the Tainan government's legal affairs secretary, told CNN.
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Rescue workers search a collapsed building from an early morning earthquake in Tainan, Taiwan, Saturday, Feb.
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Residents in the city of Tainan, along Taiwan's western coast, were jolted awake at about 4 a.m.
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CNN's Serenitie Wangm Sophia Yan in Tainan and Vivian Kam in Hong Kong contributed to this report.
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No one answered the door at Mr. Chen's home in Tainan, a city just north of Kaohsiung.
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A rescue worker searches a collapsed building from an early morning earthquake in Tainan, Taiwan, Saturday, Feb.
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A young girl is rescued from a collapsed building after an earthquake in Tainan, Taiwan, Saturday, Feb.
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Some are named on the menu, like Master Wu of Tainan, a classical painter-turned-fermentation specialist.
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Deputy Tainan Mayor Tseng Shu-cheng told family members that 103 people were still missing in the rubble.
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Founded in 2001 and headquartered in Tainan, Taiwan, Himax currently employs around 2,000 people from three Taiwan-based offices in Tainan, Hsinchu and Taipei and country offices in China, Korea, Japan and the US. Himax has 2,878 patents granted and 480 patents pending approval worldwide as of June 30, 2016.
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A young child is rescued from a toppled building from an early morning earthquake in Tainan, Taiwan, Saturday, Feb.
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Rescue workers remove a victim from a collapsed building from an early morning earthquake in Tainan, Taiwan, Saturday, Feb.
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TAINAN, Taiwan (Reuters) - Rescuers pulled out alive an eight-year-old girl and her aunt from the rubble of a Taiwan apartment block on Monday, more than 60 hours after it was toppled by a quake, as the mayor of the southern city of Tainan warned the death toll could exceed 100.
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"First we'll rescue people, and then we'll issue a judgment," said Lai Shu-hui, a deputy secretary general of Tainan.
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Emergency rescue teams search for victims in a collapsed building from an early morning earthquake in Tainan, Taiwan, Saturday, Feb.
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She lived in central Taiwan before moving to Tainan and survived the 1999 quake that killed more than 2,000 people.
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She lived in central Taiwan before moving to Tainan and survived the 1999 quake that killed more than 2,000 people.
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CNA reported earlier that a 10-day-old girl and a 40-year-old man had been killed in Tainan.
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Tuesday's quake comes two years after a major quake in the city of Tainan that killed at least 116 people.
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Tainan officials were initially relieved that the earthquake seemed to have killed only 10 people across a city of 1.8 million.
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Tainan residents said the tremor had felt considerably stronger than any they could remember on this island where earthquakes are frequent.
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Taiwan's president, Ma Ying-jeou, and its president-elect, Tsai Ing-wen, canceled New Year plans and were headed to Tainan.
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The party held on in two of its other strongholds, however, keeping Tainan in the south and Taoyuan in the north.
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It was founded in Tainan in 1990, and has won the Taiwan Series Championships five times in the last decade alone.
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The device, planted outside the entrance to a Kuomintang office in Tainan city, contain wires, liquid and powder, the report said.
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Tainan municipal officials here had said on Saturday evening that all 256 registered occupants of the toppled building had been accounted for.
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Tainan, Taiwan (CNN)Time is running out to find survivors in the rubble left by a powerful earthquake that shook southern Taiwan.
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William Lai, the popular mayor of the southern city of Tainan and a leading DPP figure, is widely expected to replace Lin.
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A canine rescue team searches for the missing in a collapsed building, after an early morning earthquake in Tainan, Taiwan, Saturday, Feb.
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Rescue teams continue to search for the missing in a collapsed building, after an early morning earthquake in Tainan, Taiwan, Saturday, Feb.
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A rescue team member searches for missing people in a collapsed building, after an early morning earthquake in Tainan, Taiwan, Saturday, Feb.
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Rescuers are seen entering an office building that collapsed on its side from an early morning earthquake in Tainan, southern Taiwan, Saturday, Feb.
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After residents raised concerns about the safety of the building, Tainan Mayor Lai Ching-te said he will order a probe as well.
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More than 200 people were rescued from damaged structures, many from a 17-story residential building that collapsed in Tainan, officials told CNN.
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More than 350 people were rescued from damaged structures, many from a 16-story residential building that collapsed in Tainan, officials told CNN.
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After residents raised concerns about the safety of the building, Tainan Mayor Lai Ching-te said he will order a probe as well.
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Tainan Mayor William Lai said during a visit to a funeral home that rescue efforts had entered what he called the "third stage".
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Rescue teams search into the evening for the missing in a collapsed building after an early morning earthquake in Tainan, Taiwan, Saturday, Feb.
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Taipei Artist Village, Guling Street Avant-garde Theater, School of Dance at the Taipei National University of the Arts, Taipei Backstage Pool, Kishu An Forest of Literature, Cultural Affairs Bureau of Tainan City Government, Tainan National University of the Arts (TNNUA) / Research and Innovation Centre of Visual Art, Asia Art Archive in Hong Kong, Vernacular Institute, and Motto Books, among others.
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Another woman, Chien, her three-year-old daughter and her husband were in their bedroom in Tainan --Taiwan's oldest city -- when the earthquake struck.
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Most of the fatalities and injuries came from the collapse of the Weiguan Golden Dragon high-rise tower in Tainan, the response center said.
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At least eight people are still trapped in the rubble of the Weiguan Golden Dragon high-rise tower in Tainan, the response center said.
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Taiwan's official Central News Agency reported earlier that a 10-day-old girl and a 40-year-old man had been killed in Tainan.
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Catcher Technology Co Ltd, which makes casings for Apple's iPhones, iPads and MacBooks, said its Tainan manufacturing facilities were not damaged by the quake.
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Hsiao Po-jen, director of the legal affairs department of the Tainan city government, told Reuters that Lin had been arrested on Monday evening.
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President Ma Ying-jeou visited an emergency centre and hospital in Tainan while President-elect Tsai Ing-wen cancelled appointments to help coordinate rescue efforts.
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Of the fatalities, at least 24 were in the Weiguan Jinlong apartment building in the city of Tainan, according to presidential spokeswoman Ma Wei-kuo.
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As of Saturday night, dozens of children were among at least 153 people still unaccounted for in Tainan, CNA reported, citing the local fire department.
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But for Fu Chien-feng, another rookie Tainan parliamentary candidate on the other end of the political spectrum, engagement with China is a historical imperative.
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For the 10-megawatt solar array in Tainan City, Taiwan, Google will install poles, with solar panels at the top of them, above fishing ponds.
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Outgoing President Ma Ying-jeou, speaking to reporters at a Tainan hospital, said the government needed to be a better job in ensuring building quality.
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The other teams rotate among several stadiums, though they are broadly associated with their cities: the Uni-Lions in Tainan and the Brothers in Taichung.
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Nearly 340 people have been rescued from the rubble in Tainan, the city hit worst by the magnitude-6.4 quake, according to The Associated Press.
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In this photo taken from a drone mounted camera, rescue workers search a collapsed building from an early morning earthquake in Tainan, Taiwan, Saturday, Feb.
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An earthquake in 2016 killed 117 people, almost all of whom died in a 17-story building that collapsed in the southwestern city of Tainan.
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A month later Mr Lai, a former mayor of the southern city of Tainan, resigned as prime minister, spurning Ms Tsai's entreaties for him to stay.
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Café owner Ricky Chang first came to Taiwan as a student and decided to settle down in Tainan in 2013 after several stints in other countries.
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This is the street in Tainan, Taiwan, where the Weiguan Jinlong high-rise building collapsed in a magnitude-6.4 earthquake that rocked the region on Saturday.
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If you ever find yourself in Tainan during fall prestige film season, please email me a photo of my boyfriend Jake Gyllenhaal's enormous oil-painted face.
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As part of their senior college thesis at the Tainan University of Technology, these women have created and manufactured a conceptual line of condoms, called Oops.
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TAIPEI, Feb 6 (Reuters) - Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co said some wafers made in Tainan have been damaged following Saturday's earthquake and that some customers may be affected.
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"Brazil has football," said Shih Fu-dao, a taxi driver, as he drove a colleague and me to another game, this time in Tainan, in southern Taiwan.
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Founded in 2009, the Tainan City startup says its products have been downloaded more 120 million times, with about 40% of its customers located in the United States.
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"There are 60 households in that building," said Tainan City Government Fire Bureau information officer Lee Po Min, estimating that there might be about 240 people living there.
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The Chin Men Theater in southern Taiwan's Tainan is bringing a little bit of the spectacle and style of the classic movie-going experience into the modern age.
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Thirty-four of the 36 killed during the 6.4-magnitude quake were from the building collapse in Tainan city, and two other people died elsewhere in the city.
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But Ellen Hsueh, a Tainan municipal spokeswoman, said on Saturday evening that everyone believed to have been inside the building when the quake struck had now been accounted for.
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Liu Shih-chung, Tainan city government deputy secretary general, said television footage of its ruins suggested the possibility of structural problems related to poor-quality reinforced steel and cement.
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Images have been circulating online of cooking oil cans clearly visible in pillars of the collapsed Wei Guan Golden Dragon Building in Tainan City, which was built in 1989.
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Mr. Liu said that it was possible that the students had gone to their hometowns for the Lunar New Year holiday, and had not bothered to tell anyone in Tainan.
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Lai, a member of Tsai's independence-leaning party, won a landslide reelection in 2014 in Tainan, home to the plants of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) and other technology firms.
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But in recent days, confirmed cases of H5N6 bird flu were found on poultry farms in Chiayi and Tainan near the western coast and Hualien on the eastern coast, Huang said.
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Rescue crews believed 29 of those still trapped could be reached more easily than the rest who were buried deeper in the rubble, said the official from the Tainan city government.
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The government in Tainan, the worst-hit city, said that more than 170 people had been rescued from the 17-story building, which folded like an accordion after the quake struck.
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More than 300 people have since been rescued from the rubble in Tainan, the worst-hit area; but between one and two hundred are still unaccounted for, including dozens of children.
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TAINAN, Taiwan — The police have arrested the builder of a 17-story apartment complex that collapsed in a predawn earthquake on Saturday here in southwestern Taiwan, the city government announced Tuesday afternoon.
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TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan has appointed as premier William Lai, the mayor of its southern city of Tainan, President Tsai Ing-wen said on Tuesday, as she moved to shore up declining public support.
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But Dr. Hung Chung-jye, the chief surgeon at National Cheng Kung University Hospital in Tainan, the largest of several hospitals that treated patients from the quake, said injuries had mostly been minor.
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TAIWAN EARTHQUAKE 'We refuse to give up hope': Families in quake-shaken Tainan, Taiwan are keeping a grim vigil: awaiting news on their loved ones who may be trapped under tons of debris.
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A pet grooming salon in Tainan, Taiwan, has become the talk of the town after several news outlets ran stories on the over-the-top fur-cuts it was giving its customers' pets.
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Next year TSMC's Fab 25, that half-finished sixth building currently being worked on at all hours in the corner of the campus outside Tainan, will start making chips for Apple's new iPhone.
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TAINAN, Taiwan — Long before a 250-story condominium complex was ever built across the street from his family home in the early 224s, Yang Yumin used to play on the site as a boy.
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The discovery brings the death toll from the earthquake to 117, all but two of whom perished in the collapse of the Wei-Guan Golden Dragon apartment complex in the southwestern city of Tainan.
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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC), the world's largest contract chipmaker and supplier to Apple Inc , said some wafers made in Tainan had been damaged, affecting no more than 1 percent of first-quarter shipments.
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TAIPEI, Feb 6 (Reuters) - A Taiwan quake toppled a 17-storey apartment building in southern Tainan city on Saturday, and crews had so far rescued 123 people from the wreckage, a fire brigade official said.
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SIPPING ICED coffee at a trendy restaurant in Tainan, a city in southern Taiwan, Li Jiabao appears calm despite the attention the 20-year-old student's outspoken views have recently attracted on the island's campuses.
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As the sun started to set on Saturday evening in the southern city of Tainan, rescuers in orange, red, and yellow jumpsuits were still digging through the rubble of the Wei-Guan Golden Dragon Building.
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TAINAN, Taiwan (Reuters) - A total of 132 people are still trapped beneath the rubble of a Taiwan apartment tower that collapsed in a powerful earthquake on Saturday morning, a local government official said on Sunday.
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In Meinong, a center of Hakka culture, he found a husband and wife making tofu skin with soy milk heated over a wood fire; in Tainan, a woman making fine fish dumplings filled with pork.
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Tainan Mayor William Lai told reporters about 120 people are believed still missing in the debris, with efforts focusing on some 30 people who are closest to the rescuers and lighter equipment like drills being used.
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The company announced today that it struck a long-term agreement to buy the output of a 10-megawatt solar array in Tainan City, Taiwan, about 100 km south of its data center in the country.
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Niantic also sponsors large Ingress events every quarter, most recently at the end of May, when gamers gathered for operations in nine communities, including Brooklyn; Rotterdam, the Netherlands; Cape Town; Tainan, Taiwan; Padua, Italy; and Manila.
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Wu Fongfa, a cake shop manager in Tainan, said she was awakened by a loud noise, followed by shaking so intense that it ruptured the water main outside her building, flooding the street in calf-deep water.
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TAINAN, Taiwan, Feb 7 (Reuters) - A total of 132 people are still trapped beneath the rubble of a Taiwan apartment tower that collapsed in a powerful earthquake on Saturday morning, a local government official said on Sunday.
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First, Ms Tsai emerged surprisingly strongly from a primary contest in which she beat off William Lai Ching-te, the former mayor of Tainan, who challenged her to be the DPP candidate to contest the next presidential election.
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Apple decided to have 100 percent of its new iPhone and new iPad chips for application processors sourced at TSMC, and TSMC invested $9 billion to bring up its Tainan fab in a record 11 months, he said.
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TAINAN, Taiwan (Reuters) - Rescuers pulled more survivors from a collapsed apartment tower in Taiwan on Sunday and kept searching for about 120 people still believed trapped in the rubble a day after a strong earthquake shook the island.
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Xiao Pi's owner runs a fruit and vegetable stall in Tainan, Taiwan and, according to the pup's Facebook page, came up with the idea of dressing Xiao Pi in clothing made from her stall's produce to boost business.
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"Taiwan and China, we're brothers for sure, but we've already divided into two families," said prominent Taiwanese rapper Dwagie, who turned up for a Tsai campaign pitstop at an ornate ancient temple in Tainan with a few friends.
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Mr. Lee, who is also on the Tainan City Council, described a series of decisions dating to the 173s that allowed the building of a complex nearly six times as tall as the mostly three-story structures around it.
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The ruins of the toppled high-rise are the most visible evidence of the massive quake, which killed at least 54 people in the normally quiet city of 1.9 million people, according to the Tainan City Disaster Response Center.
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The total is much higher than authorities had first estimated on Saturday as rescuers combed the wreckage of the 17-storey building in the southern city of Tainan with sniffer dogs and acoustic equipment, looking for signs of life.
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TAIPEI (Reuters) - Rescuers in the southern Taiwan city of Tainan pulled an eight-year-old girl out alive from the wreckage of a collapsed building on Monday, Taiwan television stations said, more than 60 hours after an earthquake hit the island.
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HONG KONG — Rescue efforts ended on Saturday at the site of a 17-story apartment complex in Tainan, in southwestern Taiwan that collapsed in an earthquake a week earlier, as search crews pulled the last of 114 bodies from the rubble.
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At least 2334 people are dead and more than 250 are still missing after a powerful earthquake shook southern Taiwan on Saturday morning, causing a high-rise building in the city of Tainan to collapse and crumple onto its side.
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At least 22 people are dead and more than 2300 are still missing after a powerful earthquake shook southern Taiwan on Saturday morning, causing a high-rise building in the city of Tainan to collapse and crumple onto its side.
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The competition, which was started as a marketing stunt for a sleepy shopping arcade in Kyotanabe, has become so popular that it's since been held in 12 other parts of Japan, including an upcoming April race in southern Taiwan's Tainan city.
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A woman was pulled alive from the rubble of a collapsed building in the southern Taiwan city of Tainan on Monday and another man has been found alive trapped inside more than 48 hours after a deadly earthquake struck, officials said.
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She grew up working in the family catering business alongside her mother, and in Taipei she found work at a food stall selling slack season noodles, a signature dish from Tainan that's also one of Taiwan's most celebrated xiao ci offerings.
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The world's biggest contract chipmaker has one of its largest and latest 12-inch wafer production facilities in the city of Tainan, where a 6.4-magnitude temblor led to the collapse of a 17-storey building and at least seven deaths.
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In coastal Tainan, when the weather was too rough for fishing boats to go out, cooks improvised "slack season" noodle bowls, stretching a little bit of seafood with pork stock, garlic and noodles into a filling dish that's now popular everywhere.
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"This election is proof that Xi Jinping's strategy of keeping Hong Kong and Taiwan under control is a total failure," said Leung Man-to, a political science professor at the National Cheng Kung University in Tainan, referring to China's leader.
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TAINAN/TAOYUAN, Taiwan, Jan 7 (Reuters) - Two Taiwanese artists - one who paints with his fingers and the other embracing the Japanese manga style are taking inspiration from the drama of the island's political scene ahead of a heated election on Saturday.
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Lai, a Harvard graduate, was a lawmaker for four consecutive terms and a whip of Tsai's Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) caucus before becoming in 2010 the mayor of Tainan, home to the plants of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) and other technology firms.
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Early Saturday, the Ministry of Transportation suspended operation of the high-speed rail service in the southern half of the island because of damage to the tracks about 20 miles north of Tainan, adding to congestion on roads already choked by holiday travelers.
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As rescuers searched for survivors, questions were raised about the construction of the Wei-guan Golden Dragon Building in the southern city of Tainan, with its floors that pancaked down on each other when the 21 magnitude tremor hit at around 4 a.m.
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TAIPEI (Reuters) - At least two people are dead after a 17-story building collapsed in the southern city of Tainan, city mayor William Lai said, the first deaths to be reported after a 6.4-magnitude quake shook the island early on Saturday.
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Lin Ming-hui, the Wei-guan Golden Dragon Building's developer, and two other men from his management team are being held without bail on suspicion of negligent homicide while the authorities finish their investigation, the Tainan District Court said in a statement.
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The high-rise building "first starting shaking horizontally, then up and down, then a big shake right to left," Tainan resident Lin Bao-gui, a secondhand car salesman whose cars were smashed when the building collapsed across the street from him, told The Associated Press.
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TAINAN, Taiwan — Firefighters and other rescue personnel worked through the night and into Sunday morning here in southwestern Taiwan to find survivors of Saturday morning's earthquake after learning that as many as 52 people from a collapsed 17-story apartment tower could not be accounted for.
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Rescuers pulled out an eight-year-old girl alive from the rubble of a Taiwan apartment block on Monday more than 238 hours after it was toppled by an earthquake, as the mayor of the southern city of Tainan warned the death toll could exceed 21994.
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Rescuers pulled out an eight-year-old girl alive from the rubble of a Taiwan apartment block on Monday more than 383 hours after it was toppled by an earthquake, as the mayor of the southern city of Tainan warned the death toll could exceed 100.
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Fire officials in Tainan told the Apple Daily newspaper that a woman with the surname Zheng, who lived on the 12th floor of the 17-story building, called an emergency line several times late Saturday morning, saying she was trapped under a wall along with her sister and her parents.
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During a campaign rally through the streets of Tainan in the DPP's traditional stronghold of southern Taiwan, tens of thousands thronged the streets, set off firecrackers, waved flags and cheered as DPP presidential frontrunner Tsai Ing-wen, likely to become the island's first woman president, swept by in a motorcade.
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From Taipei in the north to Tainan in the south, retailers are having difficulty keeping it on their shelves, as reports of imminent price increases have sent consumers rushing to stores to stock up on the household staple, which in Taiwan is sold folded in packs rather than as rolls.
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My family would make annual pilgrimages back to Asia and growing up, the fluorescent streets of Tainan in southern Taiwan, rich with some of the best food in the world, were as much of a fixture in my life as the blistering hot pavement of Los Angeles flush with drive-thru burger joints.
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HONG KONG — The city government of Tainan in southwestern Taiwan announced Thursday night that it had identified at least 30 real estate holdings across the island belonging to the developer of an apartment complex that collapsed in an earthquake last Saturday, and had told local government agencies to monitor the holdings to prevent their sale.
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Lai, formerly the mayor of the southwestern city of Tainan, made the remarks at a cabinet transition ceremony following the resignation this week of his predecessor, Lin Chuan.. The cabinet reshuffle, at a time of low public approval ratings for President Tsai Ing-wen, will give the government an opportunity to push through legislation with less resistance.
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