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Follow us on TWITTER: twitter.com Like us on FACEBOOK: www.facebook.com When Chinese Civil War came to an end in 1949, Chiang and his Nationalist Party army retreated to Taiwan due to defeat, consequently suffering financial difficulties, which he and his party somehow lived through. Details have been unveiled in a new documentary in Taiwan called ‘Gold Files’ During the Memorial Day celebrating 100 Years of the Republic of China (ROC), ‘Gold Files’ told how ROC rushed to transport gold, and the Foreign Exchange (FE) battle, by which ROC maintained its life. According to historical records, ROC carried 3.57 million taels of gold along their way to Taiwan, together with the reserves of 7 other countries, including US, UK and India. These equal 6.4 million taels of FE gold. Reportedly, this gold was mostly used at New Tai Currency Reserve, military expenditure, and administrative costs, with 0.8, 1.72 and 0.9 in millions respectively. Those were the key support bases on which the Taiwan economy thrived. Confidential gold transports were conducted by Hongjun Yu, president of China’s Central Bank, along with Ziwen Song, Chiang’s brother-in-law, and Jing Guo Chiang, Chiang’s son. Seven types of transport had been programmed, all of which were directed along by Chiang. In 1949, an intensive battle of FE took place between ROC and CCP (Chinese Communist Party) At that time ROC held 0.38 billion US dollars of FE reserve, which equals to 6.4 million gold taels. De Cheng Dong from …
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A TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow of a travel blog to Kata, Thailand by TravelPod blogger Albertine titled “The Hungry ATM” Albertine’s travel blog entry: “Life on the beach is very relaxing and enjoyable I must admit; HOWEVER, sometimes, even in such an idyllic locale, unfortunate things can happen! After a day of lounging around at the beach, enjoying the bath-warm waters of the Andaman Sea and taking a leisurely walk around the town in Kata, I was on my way back to my hotel and stopped to get some cash in the centre of the town at an ATM. Much to my chagrin, my fabulous day was about to take a frustrating turn (cue the ominous music here). The ATM ate my bank card as soon as I put it in. After frantically pushing most of the buttons on the machine and wearing out the ‘cancel’ button, I was getting slightly panicked. I went to talk to the girl who worked in the connected currency exchange kiosk associated with the same bank and then things really started to go downhill. She came to look the situation over, just shook her head, and repeated “I no ATM” about 25 times. Then she went back into her kiosk and shut the window on me. I implored her to give me a number, or a person to talk to or for her to phone the bank for me as I don’t have a phone but she wouldn’t even talk to me. By this time, a girl from a neighboring shop could see I was really frustrated and upset and came by to help. She was really nice and tried talking to the kiosk girl on my behalf but didn’t get much …
