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Kaohsiung

[ gou-shyoong ]

noun

Wade-Giles.
  1. a seaport on southwestern Taiwan.


Kaohsiung

/ ˈ첹ʊˈʃʊŋ /

noun

  1. a port in SW Taiwan, on the South China Sea: the chief port of the island. Pop: 1 506 000 (2005 est) Japanese nameTakao
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Now the group has a semester-long course at a community college in Kaohsiung, in addition to their lectures all across Taiwan, from fishing villages to community centers.

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With the island’s major ports at Taipei and Kaohsiung facing the Taiwan Straits, any American warships trying to break that embargo would face a lethal swarm of nuclear submarines, jet aircraft and ship-killing missiles.

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He lost to Tsai 57% to 38%, shortly after which he lost his job as mayor of the major southern port city of Kaohsiung in a recall election.

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Shi Ming-teh was born on Jan. 15, 1941 in Kaohsiung, a port city in southern Taiwan.

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Mr. Shih recalled watching Nationalist troops gun down students at Kaohsiung’s train station.

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