Citations:Xinhua

English citations of Xinhua

新化站
Xinhua Railway Station

News Agency

• 1978 December 3, “CHINA HUATCHERS KEEP EYE ON BEIJING IN '79”, in The Daily Colonist‎^[1], volume 120, number 292, Victoria, British Columbia, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1, column 6:

  China's official news agency said Saturday it will adopt the Chinese Pinyin phonetic alphabet beginning Jan. 1, when Peking will become Beijing (pronounced bay-jing) and the agency Xinhua instead of Hsinhua.

• [1981 April 19, “Yeh, Teng far apart”, in Free China Weekly‎^[2], volume XXII, number 15, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3:

  The “Hsinhua News Agency,” in a wire report from Canton, said that “Yeh Chien-ying, accompanied by Wang Cheng, member of the politburo, has visited Chuhai and other places in Kwangtung province.”]

In Taiwan

• 2014, Steven Crook, “A Forgotten Tribe Campaigns for Recognition”, in Taiwan (Bradt Guides)‎^[3], 2nd edition, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 223:

  On the face of it, Tainan is ethnically homogeneous. Almost everyone, it seems, is descended from Han Chinese who came to Taiwan two or more centuries ago. That's what most people believe, anyhow. The leaders of the Xinhua-based Siraya Culture Association think otherwise, arguing that many Tainan folk are indigenous even if they don't know it.[...]You won't hear Siraya spoken in Xinhua, but here are a few words to impress - or baffle - the locals: tabe is hello; tatalag means welcome; alid means god, while alilid means to thank.

• 2014 April 19, Camaron Kao, “Company may relocate Tainan factory”, in Taipei Times‎^[4], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from [https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/biz/archives/2014/04/19/2003588345 the original] on April 20, 2014, Business, page 13‎^[5]:

  Rotam Global AgroSciences Ltd (龍燈), which makes agricultural biotechnological products, said yesterday that it would halt construction of its Xinhua District (新化), Greater Tainan, factory until it eases public doubts about pollution.

• 2017 July 30, Steven Crook, “Handling Snakes and other Nocturnal Adventures in Taiwan’s Forests”, in The News Lens‎^[6], archived from the original on 30 July 2017, Lifestyle‎^[7]:

  Harris grew up in Florida. “There were always snakes around, and I was always very interested in them,” he says. Seeing any snake in Florida was noteworthy, he remembers, but when he goes out herping in the woodlands of Tainan City’s Xinhua District, “with a decent flashlight, you might see a dozen individuals of seven different species. And more than half of them would be venomous.”

• 2021 August 24, George Liao, “Fruit and vegetable market in southern Taiwan expected to attract tourists”, in Taiwan News‎^[8], archived from the original on 25 August 2021‎^[9]:

  The Tainan City Government is banking on a nearly completed fruit and vegetable market in Xinhua District becoming not only a comfortable environment for shopping but also a tourist magnet.