Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of Gukeng.
The top TTBA awardees are as follows:[…] Silver Medal Kukeng Township in Yunlin (古坑鄉公所)
2018 April 18, Renée Salmonsen, “Taiwan Town Brand Awards event commends local development”, in Taiwan News, archived from the original on 18 Apr 2018, Society5 more examples
A small-scale bamboo shoot processiing^([sic – meaning processing]) plant has been set up at Kukeng, Yunlin county under the Accelerated Rural Development Program.
1970, General Report of the Joint Commission on Rural Reconstruction, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 45, column 2Finally we crossed over the Choshui River. I guessed that the truck had been following was headed for Kaohsiung, a huge seaport at the southern end of the island, but I turned off and went into a small place called Huwei. That was part of the plan. Laurie never went there. The big car would be noticed, but nobody actually knew who it belonged to. I took a break, bought some things. Then I crossed back under the freeway, zigzagged along minor roads, and came into Kukeng from the south.
1995, Anthony Hyde, chapter 10, in Formosa Straits, 1st edition (Fiction), Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 107The quake also caused a landslide in Yunlin County's Kukeng (古坑) Township, burying two vehicles carrying a family to Tsaoling (草嶺) village. Four individuals, two dead and two seriously injured, were pulled out from the pile of rocks by a navy rescue team and sent to a hospital in Touliu.
1999 September 27, “Fierce aftershock raises death toll”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 Aug 2009, Front Page, page 1Tea may well be Asia's drink but coffee is catching up fast--even in an area renowned for its tea cultivation, such as central Taiwan's Kukeng Township. In Yunlin County's Kukeng--a vertiginous mountain village of 35,000 inhabitants--the main crop is oolong tea.
2004 June 1, “All the Coffee in Kukeng”, in Taiwan Today, archived from the original on 04 Oct 2022Koo made the remarks at a commencement ceremony for the charity drive, where the foundation lit a 17-meter Christmas tree. The event featured a violin performance by a class of elementary school students from Huashan Elementary School (華山國小) in Yunlin’s Kukeng Township (古坑), who were able to pursue their interest in music with the help of the foundation.
2015 December 19, Ted Chen, “CTBC Financial leads charity drive for disadvantaged children in Light Up A Life campaign”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 Jul 2018, Business, page 13
Origin
Borrowed from Mandarin 古坑 (Gǔkēng) Wade–Giles romanization: Ku³-kʻêng¹.
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