One of the first 4-H members receives an official club banner during the inaugural meeting in Taoyuan.

An international seminar entitled "Land Consolidation: Its Potential for New Urbanization at the Rural Fringe" began June 7 at Taoyuan in northern Taiwan.

Chen Shui-bian has been transferred from a detention center, in which he was held for over 700 days, to a prison in Taoyuan, right outside of Taipei.

Unlike many influential politicians in Taiwan and elsewhere, Lu Hsiu-lien does not come from an elite family. Her father, Lu Shi-sheng, ran a medium-size shop in the city of Taoyuan in northern Taiwan, and her mother Lu Huang-chin, had more children than she could financially support.

Taiwan carried out an unprecedented military drill Tuesday, a day ahead of its National Day celebrations, in Taoyuan in northern parts of the country.

After Yu Hsin-Hsien was elected to the City Council that year in Taoyuan, a city near Taipei, mysterious strangers began inquiring about buying his Facebook page, which had around 280,000 followers. Mr. Yu, 30, immediately suspected China.

The important mining center Paoking is connected with Siangtan by a road through Hsiang Hsiang. It is also connected with Yuanchow by way of Wukang and with Changteh by way of Hsin Hua, An Hua, and Taoyuan.

By December 4 the advance upon Changsha had come to a standstill. After several days' indecisive fighting around Changteh and the town of Taoyuan, 15 miles to the west, which had been taken by the enemy after a heavy air raid supported by parachutists on November 21, the Japanese retreated northwards.

At 1600 on 21 November 1943 Japanese paratroopers attacked Taoyuan, Hunan, as a phase of their Tungting Lake campaign.

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