Ciaotou

English Ciaotou District, Kaohsiung thumb|zh 高雄市橋頭區公所Ciaotou District Office Kaohsiung City Alternative forms en Ch’iao-t’ou Chiaotou Wade-Giles en Qiaotou Pinyin Etymology From the en cmn-tongyong -en 2006 Taiwan place names https://web.archive.org/web/20061001212733/https://pinyin.info/taiwan/place_names.html Pinyin.info zh 鄉鎮市區別 / Hanyu Pinyin (recommended) / Hanyu Pinyin (with tones) / Tongyong Pinyin / old formszh 橋頭鄉 / Qiaotou / Qiáotóu / Ciaotou / Chiaotou romanization of the en cmn - Chinese pronunciation for *橋頭 Ciáotóu. Pronunciation chyou′tō′ en Ciao tou Proper noun en district city/Kaohsiung c/Taiwan formerly a Rural township (Taiwan) rural township. en 2011 Anru Lee; Perng-juh Peter Shyong Tak-Wing Ngo; Hong-zen Wang Assessing (multi)culturalism through public art practices Politics of Difference in Taiwan https://books.google.com/books?id=ZOusAgAAQBAJ w:Routledge 978-0-203-81656-1 2010047135 758290606 194 The only Special Station public artwork that was commissioned from a Taiwanese artist, Chu Pang-hsiung, is installed at Ciaotou [Kio-A-Thau] Station, near the location of the now-defunct Ciaotou Sugar Refinery. en 2014 Robert Kelly; Chung Wah Chow Taiwan https://archive.org/details/taiwan0000kell/ 9th w:Lonely Planet 978-1-74220-135-1 951274659 256 https://archive.org/details/taiwan0000kell/page/256/ Ciaotou Sugar Factory(zh 橋頭糖廠, Qiáotóu Tángchǎng) Ciaotou consists of a defunct factory (which you can walk into, and explore the old mechanisms and vats) and an old village that retains most of its early-20th-century flavour. en https://web.archive.org/web/20190724091446/https://www.qtc.moj.gov.tw/10078/10083/702853/10093/254014/post 24 July 2019 2017-09-30 Jurisdiction zh:臺灣橋頭地方檢察署<t:Taiwan Ciaotou District Prosecutors Office> The jurisdiction area of Taiwan Ciaotou District Prosecutors Office includes 26 districts in total. en Nov 20, 2018 https://web.archive.org/web/20181119195715/http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2018/11/20/2003704568 19 November 2018 Kaohsiung mayoral rivals cross swords in debate Ko Yu-hao; Sherry Hsiao; Jonathan Chin w:Taipei Times He promised to create a point of contact to attract businesses and investments, open a science park in Ciaotou District (zh 橋頭), connect Kaohsiung and Tainan via a “technological corridor,” and bring in more than NT$600 billion (US$19.4 billion) in economic output. en 2018 https://web.archive.org/web/20201022184639/https://kcginfo.kcg.gov.tw/Publish_Content.aspx?n=A22859B204186560&sms=6A6B57F5FE966020&s=D7B448755AA93DFC&chapt=10867&sort=1 22 October 2020 Ciaotou Sugar Refinery Hou Ya-ting 6 Love Kaohsiung Ciaotou Sugar Refinery was built during Japanese colonial rule period and was the first modern sugar refinery in Taiwan. It was established by the Japanese company Mitsui Corporation, with operations commencing in 1902. At the height of its yearly production it contributed 60,000 metric tons of sugar. Ciaotou became a prosperous industrial area because of it. The once flourishing sugar refinery closed in 1999, yet it will always be an important part Ciaotou 's sweet history. en 2019 Mariko Iijima Sugar Islands in the Pacific in the Early Twentieth Century: Taiwan as a Protégé of Hawai'i https://www.vr-elibrary.de/doi/pdf/10.7788/hian.2019.27.3.361 Historische Anthropologie 27 3 2194-4032 1197308822 369 Nitobe Inazō His suggestion was soon realized when Taiwan Sugar began operating its first ‘newstyle’ sugar factory in Kyōshitō (present-day Ciaotou District, Kaohsiung City: see Map 1), in January 1902. https://web.archive.org/web/20230404000039/https://www.vr-elibrary.de/doi/pdf/10.7788/hian.2019.27.3.361 4 April 2023 en 08/20/2019 https://web.archive.org/web/20201022121558/https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3AQhEQKQ7NbKkJ%3Ahttps%3A%2F%2Ffocustaiwan.tw%2Fnews%2Faipl%2F201908200026.aspx 22 October 2020 Kaohsiung mayor voices frustration, claims car wired with tracker Chen Chi-fong; Wen Kuei-hsiang; Wang Shu-fen; Ko Lin w:Focus Taiwan The Ciaotou District Prosecutors Office and Kaohsiung police both responded Tuesday that no relevant information has been received so far from the mayor's office.. . .Wang Po-tun (zh 王柏敦), an official with the Ciaotou Prosecutors Office, said that if Han was to file a charge on offences against privacy, he would have to do it personally. en APRIL 22, 2020 Louise Watt Kaohsiung Seeks a Change of Fortune https://topics.amcham.com.tw/2020/04/kaohsiung-seeks-fortune/ w:American Chamber of Commerce in Taipei https://web.archive.org/web/20200428205928/https://topics.amcham.com.tw/2020/04/kaohsiung-seeks-fortune/ April 28, 2020 Tsai says that 10 years ago, when Kaohsiung County became part of the city, an AmCham Kaohsiung white paper suggested that the government create an industry centered on the long-term care of senior citizens to take advantage of Kaohsiung’s warm climate, lower living costs, and convenient transportation. But the city government has preferred to focus on high-tech industry, such as developing a new science park in the Ciaotou district. en 01/27/2022 Tsai Meng-yu; Tseng yi-ning; Tseng Chih-yi; James Lo https://web.archive.org/web/20220127143346/https://focustaiwan.tw/society/202201270018 27 January 2022 Department head at state-run CPC detained for corruption w:Focus Taiwan An investigation into corruption involving CPC's refinery division was launched after the Ministry of Justice's Agency Against Corruption (AAC) received a tip-off from an anonymous whistleblower, accusing Hsu of taking bribes from businesses.The AAC reported the case to Kaohsiung City's Ciaotou District Prosecutors Office, which set up a special taskforce to look into Hsu.[...]At 4 a.m. Thursday, the Taiwan Ciaotou District Court issued an order to detain both Hsu and Liu, with the former held incommunicado. en March 14, 2025 Carol Yang Continental Development Corporation to launch 5 major housing projects in Taiwan w:Taiwan News https://web.archive.org/web/20250314031734/https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/news/6059571 https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/news/6059571 March 14, 2025 Business The company began construction on a recycled water plant in Kaohsiung Ciaotou District in 2023, which is expected to supply 35,000 tonnes of water daily to TSMC starting next year. en April 20, 2026 Li Hui-chou; Wang Jung-hsiang; William Hetherington President Lai honors Taiwan’s democracy pioneers w:Taipei Times https://web.archive.org/web/20260419171013/https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2026/04/20/2003855902 https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2026/04/20/2003855902 3 Opposition figures and members of the public protested the arrest in what was then Kaohsiung County’s Ciaotou Township (橋頭), which Lai described as the first political protest of the Martial Law era. en Translations district in south Taiwan Chinese: Hokkien: nan-hbl 橋頭 Kiô-thâu Mandarin: cmn 橋頭 Qiáotóu References en Kaohsiung en 2-syllable words