■ FSC appoints new member
Yang Ya-hwei (楊雅惠), director of the Center for Economic and Financial Strategies at the Chung Hua Institute for Economic Research, has been appointed by the Cabinet to be a member of the Financial Supervisory Commission, the commission said yesterday.
The tenure of Yang, who fills the vacancy after Shih Jun-ji (施俊吉) moves to chair the commission, will run through June 30, 2010, the financial regulator said.
Two of the commission's nine seats remained vacant after former vice chairman Lu Duang-yen (呂東英) moved to be chairman of the GRETAI Securities Market in August and Lin Chung-cheng (林忠正) resigned in October after being taken into custody for suspicion of corruption.
■ AmCham elects new president
Jane Hwang (黃素貞), vice president and general manager of the State Street Bank and Trust Co, Taipei Branch, was elected president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Taipei (AmCham) for next year, AmCham said in a statement yesterday.
Hwang said she would do her best to maintain AmCham's position as the "most influential voice in Taiwan for the business world," the statement said.
She expressed appreciation for the "excellent degree of access" that AmCham has enjoyed with policymakers, and said that the new Board of Governors and Supervisors was looking forward to continued constructive interaction with government officials, it said.
For the past two years Hwang has played an active role at AmCham as its first vice president and as co-chair of the Capital Markets Committee.
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