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■ FOREIGN AID

Ally receives wheelchairs

Taiwan's embassy in El Salvador has donated wheelchairs to a local El Salvadoran social planning committee to help needy disabled people, said Carlos Liao (廖世傑), Taiwan's ambassador to the Central American country. Thirty wheelchairs were donated at a ceremony on Wednesday presided over by Liao and Elizabeth de Calderon Sol, chairwoman of El Salvador's Social Planning Committee. Last month Taiwan donated 55 wheelchairs to the Salvadoran Ministry of Health for patients at public hospitals. The committee, established in 1988, supports social development programs, Liao said.



■ EDUCATION

MOE unhappy with ad

The Ministry of Education (MOE) has not certified any of the English proficiency test systems used by language testing organizations, an official of the ministry's Department of Social Education said. The official made the remarks earlier this week in response to an English testing organization's advertisement promoting the Global English Test (GET). The advertisement claimed that "GET results are approved by the MOE and have the same status as that of the General English Proficiency Test (GEPT)." The official said this was misleading because the ministry does not officially approve any English test. Schools and institutes are free to decide which test they wish to recognize, the official said. The ministry informed all language test organizations in 2005 to establish test result levels against the standard of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: Learning; Teaching; Assessment. The ministry will ask the Fair Trade Commission to investigate the case.
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