1. What does the earth Look like?

2. The earth is Circular

3. Introduction to …..

4. TAIWAN

8. Area: about 1/5 the area of Washington State Language: Mandarin Chinese is the official language, but Taiwanese is also spoken by many Currency: New Taiwan(NT) Dollar (exchange rate ranging from NT$32~33 : US$1)

9. Time Zone: GMT + 8 hours (no daylight saving), 1 3 hrs ahead of Cincinnati. Climate: Subtropical (16.6° C (62° F) in December and 26.6° C (80° F) in July with an average humidity of 82%). 20° C is cold!!!

12. Capital: Taipei Population: 21.6 million (about 4 times the population of Washington State) Major Cities: Taipei (2.6 million), Kaohsiung (1.4 million), Taichung (876,000), Tainan (711,000)

17. 1,483 452 88 1998 Petronas Tower 2, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 3. 1,483 452 88 1998 Petronas Tower 1, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 2. 1,667 508 101 2004 Taipei 101 , Taipei, Taiwan 1. ft m Rank Height Sto- ries Year Building, city

19. Description : Taiwan is a barren rock in a typhoon-laden sea, with virtually no natural resources-nothing but the energy, ambition, and talent of its own people-and today it has the third-largest financial reserves in the world. B y Thomas L Fridman, “The World is Flat”

20. Economics : Located on the major traffic route in Southeast Asia, Taiwan has a small-scale island economy. Foreign trade has been the major element of Taiwan’s economic development.

21. Economics : (Continue …) Over the past 50 years, Taiwan has developed from an agriculturally-based economy into a high-tech economic force. .

22. In Business Week Jul 3rd. '06 ed. titled the "Godfather of Innovation", they had this ranking of Information Technology 100,

24. In which listed 13 companies from Taiwan including Hon - Hai Precision Ind. listed in the 2nd and Hi Tech Computer listed in 3rd.

26. Hon - Hai Precision Ind. Taiwan's leading electronics company is focusing on what it does best: producing handsets, PCs, and all sorts of computer parts and components. You think Dell vs. Hewlett-Packard is the hottest rivalry in the PC world? Another battle is heating up in Asia. Taiwan's Acer, the world's No. 4 PC maker, The world's biggest producer of motherboards for PCs. Also produces laptops Hi Tech Computer , The world's leading producer of smart phones operating on Windows software from http://www.businessweek.com/it100/2006/

27. AU Optronics Corp. (AUO), a worldwide top 3 manufacturer of thin film transistor liquid crystal display panels (TFT-LCD) Giant Manufacturing Co. Ltd. One of the most famous bicycle manufacturing company in the world.

29. So what does the earth look like now?

30. Circular? or … FLAT?