Taipei, July 17 (CNA) Taiwanese students won three gold and two silver medals at the 2023 International Physics Olympiad (IPO) in Japan, according to a statement issued Monday by the Ministry of Education (MOE).
Taipei, July 11 (CNA) Taiwanese students won three gold medals and one silver at the 2023 International Biology Olympiad (IBO), held in the United Arab Emirates, putting their team in third place overall, the Ministry of Education (MOE) said Tuesday.
Washington, April 24 (CNA) Several Taiwanese teams won accolades in the recent FIRST Championship, a U.S. youth robotics competition, for their achievements and ingenuity in robotics and engineering.
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Wang Chun-liang (汪俊良) hit just two home runs over a five-year career, but his first one is enshrined in local baseball lore. On March 17, 1990, Wang’s feat extended the lead the Uni President Lions had over the Brother Elephants in Taiwan’s first professional baseball match, sealing a historic win.
During a pre-game guessing contest, the majority of fans thought that the day’s hero would be the Elephants’ “Mr Baseball” Lee Chu-ming (李居明).
“I was a dark horse, nobody guessed it would be me,” Wang recalls 18 years later in a Liberty Times (Taipei Times’ sister paper)