The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is mulling a minor reshuffle of its diplomatic personnel abroad, with representative to Mexico Tsai Meng-hung (蔡孟宏) expected to be appointed as the nation's new ambassador to the Dominican Republic, a ministry official said yesterday.
The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said that Tsai would succeed Chen Hsien-hsiang (陳顯祥), who is to be transferred back to the ministry in Taipei after his successor assumes office, while Chen Hsin-tung (陳新東), deputy director-general of the ministry's Department of Central and South American Affairs, would fill the vacancy left by Tsai's departure.
Addressing the issue of the nation's representative-designate to Ireland, Parris Chang (張旭成), the official said that if the Irish government continued to reject Chang's visa application, the ministry would not rule out assigning someone else in his place.
Chang -- formerly a Democratic Progressive Party representative to the US and a deputy secretary-general of the National Security Council -- was sworn in during a ceremony in Taipei on Sept. 5, but has been unable to assume his new post.
The official said that the nation's representative to Vietnam, Huang Nan-huei (黃南輝), and the representative to Norway, Kuo Ming-shan (郭明山), were also likely to be transferred in the short term.
A group of Taiwanese-American and Tibetan-American students at Harvard University on Saturday disrupted Chinese Ambassador to the US Xie Feng’s (謝鋒) speech at the school, accusing him of being responsible for numerous human rights violations. Four students — two Taiwanese Americans and two from Tibet — held up banners inside a conference hall where Xie was delivering a speech at the opening ceremony of the Harvard Kennedy School China Conference 2024. In a video clip provided by the Coalition of Students Resisting the CCP (Chinese Communist Party), Taiwanese-American Cosette Wu (吳亭樺) and Tibetan-American Tsering Yangchen are seen holding banners that together read:
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Heat advisories were in effect for nine administrative regions yesterday afternoon as warm southwesterly winds pushed temperatures above 38°C in parts of southern Taiwan, the Central Weather Administration (CWA) said. As of 3:30pm yesterday, Tainan’s Yujing District (玉井) had recorded the day’s highest temperature of 39.7°C, though the measurement will not be included in Taiwan’s official heat records since Yujing is an automatic rather than manually operated weather station, the CWA said. Highs recorded in other areas were 38.7°C in Kaohsiung’s Neimen District (內門), 38.2°C in Chiayi City and 38.1°C in Pingtung’s Sandimen Township (三地門), CWA data showed. The spell of scorching