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  2. List of newspapers in Taiwan - Wikipedia

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    In addition, there are two major business-focused, financial newspapers: the Commercial Times (工商時報) and Economic Daily News (經濟日報). After competitors Taiwan News ceased print publication in 2010 and The China Post in 2015, Taipei Times (英文台北時報) remains the only major English-language newspaper in Taiwan.

  3. List of world news channels - Wikipedia

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    RT Mandarin: RT Spanish: RT Français: RT Arabic: RT Tamil - -RT DE (German) BBC News (UK) BBC News: BBC News Shijie: BBC News Hindi--BBC News Arabic-News bulletin for TV Rain channel News bulletins in Urdu, Pashto and other languages and BBC News Persian: i24NEWS (Israeli TV channel) i24NEWS English: i24NEWS Mandarin: i24NEWS Hindu: Weekly ...

  4. Language policy in Taiwan during martial law - Wikipedia

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    During the martial law period in Taiwan, a Mandarin monolingual policy was implemented in Taiwan by the Kuomintang. The policy was formulated as a political goal to unite the island. [2] However, the demotion of prior local languages into "dialects" across cultural and educational landscapes resulted in a pushback of the policy and eventually ...

  5. Mass media in Taiwan - Wikipedia

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    While Taiwan's media freedom may rank among the top few nations in Asia today, its progress to its current state of vibrancy was not without a struggle. [1] The Japanese occupation of Taiwan from 1895 to 1945 did not slow down the pace of economic modernisation on the island; the Kuomintang (KMT, Nationalist Party) also built on the successes of its predecessors to modernize and this provided ...

  6. History of Standard Chinese - Wikipedia

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    The Chinese language has always consisted of a wide variety of dialects; hence prestige dialects and linguae francae have always been needed. Confucius (c. 551 – c. 479 BC) referred to yayan 'elegant speech' modeled on the dialect of the Zhou dynasty royal lands rather than regional dialects; texts authored during the Han dynasty (202 BC – 220 AD) also refer to tongyu (通語 'common ...

  7. Taiwan Center for Mandarin Learning - Wikipedia

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    Taiwan Center for Mandarin Learning (Chinese: 臺灣華語文學習中心; pinyin: Táiwān huáyǔ wén xuéxí zhōngxīn) is a project initiated and funded by the government of the Republic of China (Taiwan) to establish learning centres in foreign countries to teach students Mandarin Chinese with "Taiwanese characteristics".

  8. Mandarin orange - Wikipedia

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    The mandarin orange (Citrus reticulata), also known as mandarin or mandarine, is a small, rounded citrus tree fruit. Treated as a distinct species of orange, [1] it is usually eaten plain or in fruit salads. [1] Tangerines are a group of orange-colored citrus fruit consisting of hybrids of mandarin orange with some pomelo contribution.

  9. List of loanwords in Chinese - Wikipedia

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    Loanwords have entered written and spoken Chinese from many sources, including ancient peoples whose descendants now speak Chinese. In addition to phonetic differences, varieties of Chinese such as Cantonese and Shanghainese often have distinct words and phrases left from their original languages which they continue to use in daily life and sometimes even in Mandarin.