"Forestry bureau confirmations are not officially recognized documents and are not issued pursuant to a legislative mandate," the report states.
When governments officially recognize and document their citizens, better information can be collected on what communities need, such as better health care, more security and more schools.
It was only six months ago that the Taiwanese government amended Chang's birth documents and officially recognized him as a scion of the political dynasty.
Cases of what is today recognized as anorexia nervosa have been documented throughout history, but it was not officially recognized as a psychiatric disorder until 1980, when its incidence increased greatly.
For example, in Spain, audiology is not an official profession, although hearing-aid technicians were officially recognized in 2001.
The reason for this paucity of documented information is that Sōtatsu did not belong to officially recognized Kanō, Hasegawa, or Tosa schools of painting, nor did he come from either the nobility or the warrior class (samurai), which traditionally had supplied most of the outstanding Japanese painters.
Although Spanish is the official language in Guatemala today, there are 23 officially recognized Native American languages.
According to the documents, a woman was killed last February for siding with the officially recognized bishop of Harare, Chad Gandiya.
The Egyptian identification card controversy began in the 1990s when the government modernized the electronic processing of identity documents, which introduced a de facto requirement that documents must list the person's religion as Muslim, Christian, or Jewish (the only three religions officially recognized by the government).
These experts have been officially recognized as Master Teachers before.
Stanford departments and officially recognized groups.
