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List of events
Events from the year 2016 in Taiwan .
Incumbents
Events
January
February
1 February
5 February –
Mainland Affairs Council and
Taiwan Affairs Office had their first conversation via the newly establish hotline connecting both heads of the offices.
[6]
6 February – The 6.4
Taiwan earthquake affected the southwest part of the island with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII (Very strong ), killing 117 and injuring 550.
March
April
May
June
25 June – the Taoyuan Flight Attendants Union, representing some 2500 cabin crew from China Airlines, staged the first strike in Taiwanese aviation history. A total of 122 China Airlines-passenger flights from
Taoyuan International Airport and
Taipei Songshan Airport were cancelled as a result. The strike ended within a day following government intervention, replacement of top officials, and management-representatives conditionally agreeing to all seven demands from the union.
[18]
July
August
September
November
December
Deaths
11 January –
Cheng Chen Tao [
zh ] , 93, Taiwanese
comfort woman .
[32]
[33]
15 January –
Tsai Chen-yang [
zh ] , 66, Taiwanese businessman, heart attack.
[34]
20 January –
Chang Yung-fa , 88, Taiwanese businessman (
Evergreen Group ).
[35]
17 February –
Liu Wan-lai , 87, Taiwanese translator.
[36]
26 February –
Loh I-Cheng , 92, Taiwanese diplomat.
[37]
10 March –
Fangge Dupan , 89, Taiwanese poet.
[38]
18 March –
Kong Jaw-sheng , 60, Taiwanese banker, chairman of the
FSC (2004–2006), heart attack.
[39]
1 April
8 April –
Wei Chueh , 88, Taiwanese Buddhist monk.
[42]
21 May –
Ku Chin-shui , 56, Taiwanese aboriginal athlete, plasma cell leukemia.
[43]
27 May –
Wang You-theng , 89, Taiwanese entrepreneur, (
Rebar ), traffic collision.
[44]
29 May –
Tien Chih-hsuan [
zh ] , 56, Taiwanese politician, Mayor of
Hualien City , lung cancer.
[45]
31 May –
Chen Wei-chau [
zh ] , 62, Taiwanese businessman (
TransAsia Airways ), heart attack.
[46]
1 June –
Wang Jui , 85, Taiwanese actor, heart and lung failure.
[47]
27 July –
Lin Kuo-hua , 80, Taiwanese politician,
MLY (1999–2005).
[48]
6 August –
Chow Lien-hwa , 96, Taiwanese Christian minister.
[49]
9 August –
Wang Tuoh , 72, Taiwanese writer and politician, complications of a heart attack.
[50]
[51]
27 August –
Yang Nan-chun [
zh ] , 86, Taiwanese mountaineer, esophageal cancer.
[52]
7 September –
Lee Tang-hua [
zh ] , 91, Taiwanese acrobat.
[53]
8 October –
Kuo Chin-fa , 72, Taiwanese
Hokkien pop singer, cardiorespiratory failure.
[54]
[55]
16 October –
Jacques Picoux , 67, French artist, fall.
[56]
[57]
8 November –
Ho Chih-chin , 64, Taiwanese politician, Minister of Finance.
[58]
18 November –
Liu Sung-pan , 84, Taiwanese politician,
MLY (1973–2004),
PLY (1992–1998).
[59]
22 November –
Chen Yingzhen , 79, Taiwanese writer.
[60]
28 November –
Ng Bi-chu , 88, Taiwanese activist (
228 Incident ), complications of diabetes.
[61]
30 November
1 December –
Bor-ming Jahn , 76, Taiwanese-French geochemist.
[65]
8 December –
Sung Ching-yun [
zh ] , 94, Taiwanese agriculturalist.
[66]
26 December –
Robert Storey , 63, American-born Taiwanese travel writer.
[67]
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