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The Amazing Race Asia 3 Spoilers/Speculation
georgiapeach:
--- Quote from: Slowhatch on September 25, 2008, 09:35:12 AM ---I haven't seen what you're talking about yet, but Taiwan pages are here and here: generally, it's two letters followed by four digits with the province name in chinese on top.
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Neobie, Slowhatch, and Boingo have this covered nicely, but I also found this update to explain the lack of chinese characters:
--- Quote ---Goodbye to the 'Taiwan Province' of the roads
By Dan Bloom
Thursday, Jan 04, 2007, Page 8
`All nations evolve and change in small, incremental steps, from the design of flags to the words of national anthems and license plate slogans.'
When Chen Jin-yuan (陳晉源), chief of the Directorate General of Highways, told reporters last month that all new license plates for cars and motorcycles will no longer indicate the areas where the vehicles are registered, his words signaled a new era in Taiwan's evolving history.
For the first time, license plates around the country will no longer state -- above the assigned numerals and in Chinese characters -- that Taiwan is a province of China.
The new policy, which went into effect on New Year's Day, will apply to all new license plates issued in Taiwan, Chen said. He added that all old plates will eventually have to be replaced.
So goodbye "Taiwan Province" on the old license plates and welcome to reality. All new licenses will just display numerals, with cities such as Taipei, Kaohsiung and Taichung also no longer serving as "area" marks for vehicles registered there.
All across the country, the new license plates will usher in a new era of consciousness and symbolism, not so much for the city area marks, but for the "Taiwan Province" mark that always seemed so out of place in the new Taiwan of the 21st century.
News reports say that drivers long questioned the necessity of printing "Taiwan Province" above the numbers on the plates since the Taiwan Provincial Government was officially downsized, or frozen, in 1998.
Basically, the provincial government no longer exists, and the new license plates being issued this month will reflect that reality.
Changes in public consciousness and national feelings of patriotism and identity occur in small steps and this new license plate policy is one of them.
No longer will Taiwanese have to explain to their foreign friends why their cars or scooters bear license plates with a "Taiwan Province" mark on them, since everyone knows there is no Taiwan Province anymore, thanks to former president Lee Teng-hui's (李登輝) progressive initiative when he was in office.
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http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2007/01/04/2003343336
georgiapeach:
Taiwan taxis:
LINK
georgiapeach:
Tequilamoon/Farwest (of the lovely animated promo clips) first noted the Standard Chartered Bank logo (one of the official sponsors of the race)--nice catch!
http://www.standardchartered.com/home/en/index.html
Anthonyctf:
Hey I've find something about the TW license plates in Wikipedia
But there is only Chinese I will try to explain it :angel:
Chinese:
http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8F%B0%E7%81%A3%E6%B1%BD%E8%BB%8A%E8%99%9F%E7%89%8C
2 Characters + 3 Numbers
Ex:AA-001/001-AA→Coach / Bus
2 Characters + 4 Numbers
Ex:AA-0001/0001-AA→ Private Car / Van
3 Characters + 3 Numbers
Ex:AAA-001/001-AAA→ Motorcycle
2 Characters + 2 Numbers
Ex:AA-01/01-AA→A Trailer
georgiapeach:
--- Quote from: Neobie on September 25, 2008, 09:14:19 AM ---OK brief summary of the preview:
Teams driving at night, Geoff looking at a map with green to the north and blue to the south. Looks suspiciously like India to me, but we know we're not there yet. Possibly looking at Southwest China (towards the top of supposed Indian map) then? Teams pass through a tunnel.
Restaurant with "Chinese characters" on a no-smoking sign (too many characters for a simple "No smoking" though). Teams have to eat something nasty.
Niroo (thanks TARAsia fan!) wants to give up, on the side of a road, at night.
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Taiwan tunnels:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Tunnels_in_Taiwan
http://home.no.net/lotsberg/data/taiwan/list.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hsuehshan_Tunnel
Can someone help match this up please? :please:
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