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As of 1989, the toothpaste held a 75% market share in Taiwan, 50% in Singapore, 30% in Malaysia and Hong Kong and 20% in Thailand. [14] As of late 2018, Darlie is one of the bestselling toothpaste brands in its target market areas, with market shares ranging from 10 to 30 percent. [15]
The recipe was invented by Taiwan-based Hunan cuisine chef Peng Chang-kuei. [4] Instant noodles were invented by Go Pek-hok, who later adopted the name Momofuku Ando when he immigrated from Taiwan to Japan. Ando created a method for deep-frying and drying noodles that could later be cooked using boiling water.
"A Brief History of Taiwan". ROC Government Information Office. Archived from the original on 1 August 2007. Rubinstein, Murray A. (1999), Taiwan: A New History, East Gate Books; Shepherd, John R. (1993), Statecraft and Political Economy on the Taiwan Frontier, 1600–1800, Stanford, California: Stanford University Press., ISBN 978-0-8047-2066 ...
In the 1930s, the toothpaste brand was launched in Shanghai with the Chinese name "Black People Toothpaste" and the English name "Darkie." Colgate to rename its controversial 'Black People ...
Published by the Taiwan General History Publishing House in 1920, this was the first historical work completed by the Taiwanese with the title of "General History of Taiwan". However, Lian Heng 's account of the short-lived Republic of Formosa was initially written in the "Independence Era" and later changed to the "Transition Era" to avoid ...
The tradition of colonial studies during the period of Japanese rule can be divided into the early, middle and later periods. The early period was mainly about survey reports on the whole island of Taiwan, setting a milestone in writing Taiwanese history, for example, Taketoshi and Saburo's Journal of the Ruling of Taiwan (1905) and Goto Shinpei's investigation of old habits; The middle period ...
In the Late Pleistocene, sea levels were about 140 metres (460 ft) lower than at present, exposing the floor of the shallow Taiwan Strait as a land bridge. [6] A concentration of vertebrate fossils has been found in the channel between the Penghu Islands and Taiwan, including a partial jawbone designated Penghu 1, apparently belonging to a previously unknown species of genus Homo, dated ...
Dr. Sheffield's tooth powder, a predecessor to toothpaste. Sheffield was a respected dentist and dental surgeon of his time. In the mid-1870s, he thought of a new tooth cleaning product in a cream form as a replacement for the tooth powders common at the time. [2]