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General

Services

• Chunghwa Post - Post office
  • International letter rates
  • International parcel rates
    • Surface parcel rates
  • Translate a Chinese address into English
• EMS tracking
• CommunityCenter.org.tw is very Taipei oriented
• Legal Aid Foundation - This might be a good place to start if you have a legal problem or question
• Real estate locater
• 0800-024-111 = phone number for general information including permanent residency
• 0800-086-188 = phone number for tax information
• Attorneys

Government

• iTaiwan - International Taiwan service portal
• Kaohsiung City Government
• Information for foreigners in Taiwan
• A government database of services and organizations in Taiwan
• Intellectual Property Office - The place to go for copyright, trademark, and patent information in Taiwan. This link is to the Chinese home page, but there you can find a link to an English page.
• The Handy Guide for Foreigners in Taiwan pdf

Charities

• Genesis Social Welfare Foundation

Real estate

• Soufun.com.tw
• 089house.com aka yes319
• 台東東森房屋.tw another yes319 site - something about the Chinese character encoding prevents Firefox from opening the link. You can copy and paste Chinese character URLs to make them work. This is probably an issue with the wiki encoding.
• 山水天地不動產.tw/ yet another yes319 site
• http://lvr.land.moi.gov.tw/ - Taiwan Gov site that lists real estate transaction prices

Units of measurement

• Conversion tables
• Taiwan units of measurement

    From Wikipedia:
    1 phêng (Chinese: 坪; pinyin: píng; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: phêng) = 3.306 square meters
    1 bó· (Chinese: 畝; pinyin: mǔ; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bó͘) = 30 phêng = 99.2 square meters
    1 kah (Chinese: 甲; pinyin: jiǎ; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kah) = 2934 phêng = 9699 square meters
    1 lê (Chinese: 犁; pinyin: lí; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lê) = 5 kah = 14670 phêng = 48496 square meters

• One ping equals 3.306 square meters or 36 square feet. 1坪= 3.3058平方公尺.

Misc

• Taiwan pictures - taipics.com
• TaiwanSurvival.com

Culture, history

• Origins of Taiwan indigenous people
• Takao Club

Geology

• http://envgeo.moeacgs.gov.tw/geoenv/default.asp

Postal rates from countries

• USPS rate calculater

Nature

• Site by the TW govt on ecology of Taiwan

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