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Kukeng
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English
Etymology
Borrowed from en cmn - 古坑 en cmn-wadegiles - romanization: Ku³-kʻêng¹.
Proper noun
en Gukeng.
en 1970 General Report of the Joint Commission on Rural Reconstruction https://books.google.com/books?id=QIXkAAAAMAAJ 0447-8193 1319792036 45 2 A small-scale bamboo shoot processiingprocessing plant has been set up at Kukeng, Yunlin county under the Accelerated Rural Development Program.
en 1995 w:Anthony Hyde 10 Formosa Straits https://archive.org/details/formosastraitsno00hyde/ w:Alfred A. Knopf Fiction 1st 0-679-44039-9 94-43355 31608681 107 https://archive.org/details/formosastraitsno00hyde/page/107/ Finally we crossed over the Choshui River. I guessed that the truck had been following was headed for Kaohsiung, a huge seaport at the southern end of the island, but I turned off and went into a small place called Huwei. That was part of the plan. Laurie never went there. The big car would be noticed, but nobody actually knew who it belonged to. I took a break, bought some things. Then I crossed back under the freeway, zigzagged along minor roads, and came into Kukeng from the south.
en September 27, 1999 Fierce aftershock raises death toll https://web.archive.org/web/20090817085728/https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/1999/09/27/4161 17 August 2009 w:Taipei Times 1563-9525 464696902 Front Page 1 The quake also caused a landslide in Yunlin County's Kukeng (zh 古坑) Township, burying two vehicles carrying a family to Tsaoling (zh 草嶺) village. Four individuals, two dead and two seriously injured, were pulled out from the pile of rocks by a navy rescue team and sent to a hospital in Touliu.
en June 01, 2004 All the Coffee in Kukeng https://web.archive.org/web/20221004180912/https://taiwantoday.tw/news.php?post=12701&unit=8,29,32,45 04 October 2022 w:Taiwan Today Tea may well be Asia's drink but coffee is catching up fast--even in an area renowned for its tea cultivation, such as central Taiwan's Kukeng Township.In Yunlin County's Kukeng--a vertiginous mountain village of 35,000 inhabitants--the main crop is oolong tea.
en December 19, 2015 Ted Chen CTBC Financial leads charity drive for disadvantaged children in Light Up A Life campaign https://web.archive.org/web/20180704060553/https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/biz/archives/2015/12/19/2003635116 04 July 2018 w:Taipei Times 1563-9525 464696902 Business 13 Koo made the remarks at a commencement ceremony for the charity drive, where the foundation lit a 17-meter Christmas tree. The event featured a violin performance by a class of elementary school students from Huashan Elementary School (zh 華山國小) in Yunlin’s Kukeng Township (zh 古坑), who were able to pursue their interest in music with the help of the foundation.
en 2018/04/18 Renée Salmonsen Taiwan Town Brand Awards event commends local development https://web.archive.org/web/20180418113315/https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3408135 18 April 2018 w:Taiwan News Society The top TTBA awardees are as follows:Silver MedalKukeng Township in Yunlin (zh 古坑鄉公所)
en 2022 Chang Chin-Sung; et al. Effects of age and gender on body composition indices as predictors of mortality in middle-aged and old people Scientific Reports https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-12048-0 12 10.1038/s41598-022-12048-0 2045-2322 732869387 A total of 2,208 subjects were selected using a step by step, stratified systemic cluster sample of households, where two townships in Yun-Lin County (Douliou and Kukeng) were randomly selected in the first sampling step. https://web.archive.org/web/20230517031550/https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-12048-0 17 May 2023
en 2022/05/31 Li Hsun Tsai How can Taiwanese specialty coffee reach the international market? https://web.archive.org/web/20220531140812/https://english.cw.com.tw/article/article.action?id=3239 31 May 2022 CommonWealth There were a few scattered coffee-producing areas around Taiwan a decade ago, the most well-known being Kukeng in Yunlin and Tungshan in Tainan.
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