Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) Secretary-General Michel Lu (
Lu is to fill the post left vacant in August by former representative to France Yang Tzu-pao (
Lu's latest appointment came less than six months after he was promoted in June from his former post as the ministry's spokesman to be the secretary-general.
Lu speaks fluent French and formerly served as ambassador to Haiti from 2000 to 2002.
Other personnel affected by the reshuffle include Benjamin Liang (梁英斌), the director of the Department of Treaty and Legal Affairs, who will take over Lu's post as secretary-general.
John Chen (
Taiwan's representative to Indonesia Lin Yung-lo (
Ministry officials who have served as directors of the Department of International Organizations are usually promoted as the nation's representatives abroad.
Minister of Foreign Affairs James Huang (
However, as a consequnce of the Arab nation's approval of President Chen Shui-bian's (
As a result, Lee will instead be transferred to Palau, Huang said.
Huang also denied speculation suggesting that President Chen planned to send Presidential Office Secretary-General Mark Chen (陳唐山), the former foreign minister, to the US to replace Taiwan's Representative to Washington David Lee (李大維).
Beijing could eventually see a full amphibious invasion of Taiwan as the only "prudent" way to bring about unification, the US Department of Defense said in a newly released annual report to Congress. The Pentagon's "Annual Report to Congress: Military and Security Developments Involving the People's Republic of China 2025," was in many ways similar to last year’s report but reorganized the analysis of the options China has to take over Taiwan. Generally, according to the report, Chinese leaders view the People's Liberation Army's (PLA) capabilities for a Taiwan campaign as improving, but they remain uncertain about its readiness to successfully seize
Taiwan is getting a day off on Christmas for the first time in 25 years. The change comes after opposition parties passed a law earlier this year to add or restore five public holidays, including Constitution Day, which falls on today, Dec. 25. The day marks the 1947 adoption of the constitution of the Republic of China, as the government in Taipei is formally known. Back then the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) governed China from Nanjing. When the KMT, now an opposition party in Taiwan, passed the legislation on holidays, it said that they would help “commemorate the history of national development.” That
Taiwan has overtaken South Korea this year in per capita income for the first time in 23 years, IMF data showed. Per capita income is a nation’s GDP divided by the total population, used to compare average wealth levels across countries. Taiwan also beat Japan this year on per capita income, after surpassing it for the first time last year, US magazine Newsweek reported yesterday. Across Asia, Taiwan ranked fourth for per capita income at US$37,827 this year due to sustained economic growth, the report said. In the top three spots were Singapore, Macau and Hong Kong, it said. South
Snow fell on Yushan (Jade Mountain, 玉山) yesterday morning as a continental cold air mass sent temperatures below freezing on Taiwan’s tallest peak, the Central Weather Administration (CWA) said. Snowflakes were seen on Yushan’s north peak from 6:28am to 6:38am, but they did not fully cover the ground and no accumulation was recorded, the CWA said. As of 7:42am, the lowest temperature recorded across Taiwan was minus-5.5°C at Yushan’s Fengkou observatory and minus-4.7°C at the Yushan observatory, CWA data showed. On Hehuanshan (合歡山) in Nantou County, a low of 1.3°C was recorded at 6:39pm, when ice pellets fell at Songsyue Lodge (松雪樓), a
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