(1999 pop. 760,000). Located on the coastal edge of the fertile Jianan Plateau, Tainan is the oldest Chinese settlement on Taiwan and the island's fourth largest city. Until the late nineteenth century, Tainan served as the political, cultural,...

Tainan City (traditional Chinese: 臺南; Hanyu Pinyin: Táinán; Wade-Giles: T'ai-nan; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tâi-lâm; literally "Southern Taiwan") is the fourth largest city in Taiwan after Taipei, Kaohsiung, and Taichung. It is officially administrated as...

Imprisonment in Taiwan involves a system of mega-prisons in which the incarcerated populations are extremely large. The pervasive system of mega-prisons is evident by the data shown in the statistics' of inmate populations in four prisons (Superior Court, 1998): * Kauhsiung Prison...

While TSIP is a major economic stimulus to the Taiwan government, so too is the high-speed train. The planned 2005 operation of a high-speed bullet train in southern Taiwan will not derail chipmaking production or multibillion dollars' worth of investment from the...