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  2. Nankang Software Park - Wikipedia

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    The Nankang Software Park, Neihu Technology Park, and the Hsinchu Science Park are often credited for being the catalyst in the development of Taiwan's high tech industries and the dramatic increase in Taiwan's share of intellectual property. The Nankang Software Park, Neihu Technology Park, and greater Xizhi Economic and Trade Park also create ...

  3. List of mergers and acquisitions by Yahoo! - Wikipedia

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    Yahoo's first acquisition was the purchase of Net Controls, a web search engine company, in September 1997 for US$1.4 million. As of April 2008, the company's largest acquisition is the purchase of Broadcast.com , an Internet radio company, for $5.7 billion, making Broadcast.com co-founder Mark Cuban a billionaire.

  4. East Asian age reckoning - Wikipedia

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    How the age of a Korean person, who was born on June 15, is determined by traditional and official reckoning. Traditional East Asian age reckoning covers a group of related methods for reckoning human ages practiced in the East Asian cultural sphere, where age is the number of calendar years in which a person has been alive; it starts at 1 at birth and increases at each New Year.

  5. Charmaine Sheh - Wikipedia

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    Charmaine Sheh Sze-man (Chinese: 佘詩曼; born 28 May 1975) [1] is a Hong Kong actress and beauty pageant titleholder who placed second runner-up at Miss Hong Kong pageant 1997 and represented her country at Miss International 1997.

  6. Ziwei doushu - Wikipedia

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    Ziwei doushu, sometimes translated into English as purple star astrology, is a form of fortune-telling in Chinese culture. The study of destiny ( Chinese : 命學 ; pinyin : mìngxué ) is one of the five arts of Chinese metaphysics.

  7. Wang Leehom - Wikipedia

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    Wang Leehom (Chinese: 王力宏; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Ông Le̍k-hông; born May 17, 1976), sometimes credited as Leehom Wang, is an American [2] singer-songwriter, actor, producer, and film director.

  8. Jerry Yang - Wikipedia

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    He was CEO until 2009, when Yahoo! named Carol Bartz as CEO. [30] He regained his former position as "Chief Yahoo" and remained on Yahoo's board of directors. [31] In January 2012, Yahoo! announced that Yang was leaving the company and would be resigning from the board and all other positions at the company.

  9. Cultural depictions of tigers - Wikipedia

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    A yu in the Taiwan Confucian Temple The wooden yu used to mark the end of pieces of music in yayue , the ritual music of ancient China 's Zhou dynasty , was shaped like a tiger. It was played by using a bamboo whisk to strike the tiger's head and to run across the serrated back's 27 teeth, which sometimes aligned with the stripes of the ...