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Taiwan - Tongyong Pinyin 09 Aug 2002
Taiwan has now decided on an official pinyin system. Too bad it wasn't the Hanyu Pinyin.

"The protracted controversy over the country's official Mandarin romanization system was ended yesterday when the Ministry of Education announced that it opted for the Tongyong Pinyin System (通用拼音).

The system -- which is 85 percent similar to the Hanyu Pinyin system -- was created by a group of "pro-Taiwan" linguists who say their new system is more suitable for teaching native languages to the children of Taiwan."

The rest of the article can be found here:
http://www.taipeitimes.com/news/2002/07/11/story/0000147813
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