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unusual facts about Southern Taiwan


Chitinimonas taiwanensis

Chitinimonas taiwanensis is a gram-negative, chitinolytic, catalase and oxidase-positiv motile bacterium with a single flagellum from the genus of Chitinimonas and the family of Burkholderiaceae which was isolated from the surface water from a freshwater pond for shrimps (Macrobrachium rosenbergii) in Ping-Tung in Southern Taiwan.



see also

Ai He

Ai He or Love River, a river (canal) in southern Taiwan

Ali-zu

Ali-zu is an assimilated Siraya deity that is worshipped by former plains people in southern Taiwan.

Antoine Predock

He has also worked on international sites such as the National Palace Museum Southern Branch in Southern Taiwan and the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg, Manitoba, both of which are currently in design phases.

Huang Chunming

Born in Ilan, Taiwan, Huang began his higher education career at a college in Taipei but, after a series of transfers, ended up graduating from National Pingtung University of Education in southern Taiwan.

Kaohsiung Medical University

Chung-Ho Memorial Hospital is the largest medical center in southern Taiwan and serves as a teaching hospital.

Taiwanese Hokkien

In Taiwan, however, the Tâi-lâm (Tainan, southern Taiwan) speech is the prestige variant, and the other major variants are the northern speech, the central speech (near Taichung and the port town of Lugang in Changhua County), and the northern (northeastern) coastal speech (dominant in Yilan).