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  2. Patriotic Lottery - Wikipedia

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    The Patriotic Lottery (Chinese: 愛國獎券; pinyin: Àiguó jiǎngquàn; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Ài-kok Chióng-koàn; Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: Oi-koet Chióng-khèn) was a Taiwanese state-run lottery that was active between 1950 and 1987. It was conceived to fund budget shortfalls after the tumultuous 1940s, with the first drawing of 10,000 tickets held in ...

  3. Lotteries by country - Wikipedia

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    Government lottery is currently legal in 13 Indian states. [16] Kerala State Lotteries, established in 1967, under the lottery department by the Government of Kerala was the first of its kind in India. The department was successful and has grown throughout the state of Kerala by contributing to the needful and became the role model for other ...

  4. Uniform Invoice lottery - Wikipedia

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    The Uniform Invoice or Unified Invoice (統一發票 pinyin: Tǒngyī fāpiào), is a type of standardized receipt in Taiwan that is issued by merchants for selling products and services, kept by both seller and consumer, with a 8-digit number for each one, for taxation purposes, managed by the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of China (Taiwan) existing in many form such as hand-written 2 ...

  5. Gambling in Taiwan - Wikipedia

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    A presentation to the winner of a Taiwanese lottery in 2008. Government lotteries are among the only legal forms of gambling in Taiwan. Taiwan has a long history of gambling, with widespread activity during the 17th, 18th and 19th century Qing Dynasty era. Locals partook in more than 100 well-known gambling games. [2]

  6. Government of the Republic of China - Wikipedia

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    The constitution was seen as the third and final step in Sun Yat-sen's "Three Stages of Revolution" - constitutional government. From then on, the government was known simply as the Government of the Republic of China (traditional Chinese: 中華民國政府; simplified Chinese: 中华民国政府; pinyin: Zhōnghuá Mínguó Zhèngfǔ).

  7. As Taiwan's government races to counter China, most people ...

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    Taiwan’s government is racing to counter China, buying nearly $19 billion in military equipment from the United States, and extending military conscription for men to a year starting in 2024 ...

  8. Why China Offered Earthquake Aid to Taiwan—and Why Taiwan ...

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    A quarter century ago, Taiwan rejected help from its estranged neighbor in China, and when an offer to help came from across the strait again this week, Taiwan speedily rebuffed it.

  9. National Treasury Administration - Wikipedia

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    The National Treasury Administration (NTA; traditional Chinese: 財政部國庫署; simplified Chinese: 财政部国库署; pinyin: Cáizhèngbù Guókùshǔ) is the agency of the Ministry of Finance of Taiwan (ROC) in charge of relevant matters in the revenues, expenditures and management of the Treasury as well as responsible for the management of government debt, fiscal planning, public ...