Former National Science Council minister Cyrus Chu (朱敬一) has been named as the new head of Taiwan’s mission to the WTO, while former minister of foreign affairs David Lin (林永樂) has been appointed as Taiwan’s new representative to the UK, the Presidential Office said yesterday.
In an announcement of new diplomatic appointments, the Presidential Office said Chu is to replace Lai Shin-yuan (賴幸媛), who has resigned as Taiwan’s representative to the WTO.
Meanwhile, Lin, a career diplomat who stepped down as foreign minister on May 20 when President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) took office, has been appointed as Taiwan’s representative to the UK to succeed Liu Chih-kung (劉志攻), who resigned in May.
As part of the reshuffle under the new Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) government, Antonio Chiang (江春男), a prominent journalist and political commentator, has been appointed to serve as Taiwan’s representative to Singapore.
His previous posts included deputy secretary-general of the National Security Council and publisher of the weekly Journalist magazine and the Taipei Times.
The Presidential Office also announced that Shieh Jhy-wey (謝志偉), former head of the Government Information Office, will serve as Taiwan’s new representative to Germany.
It will be his second diplomatic posting in Germany, after he served there in that same position from 2005 to 2007 under the previous DPP administration.
In another European posting, Kuo Shih-nan (郭時南), Taiwan’s former representative to Fiji and Singapore, has been appointed as the nation’s top envoy to Greece, the Presidential Office said in its statement.
It said Taiwan’s representative to the Czech Republic, Lu Hsiao-jung (陸小榮), has resigned, but a replacement has not yet been selected.
Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Chairman Eric Chu (朱立倫), spokeswoman Yang Chih-yu (楊智伃) and Legislator Hsieh Lung-chieh (謝龍介) would be summoned by police for questioning for leading an illegal assembly on Thursday evening last week, Minister of the Interior Liu Shyh-fang (劉世芳) said today. The three KMT officials led an assembly outside the Taipei City Prosecutors’ Office, a restricted area where public assembly is not allowed, protesting the questioning of several KMT staff and searches of KMT headquarters and offices in a recall petition forgery case. Chu, Yang and Hsieh are all suspected of contravening the Assembly and Parade Act (集會遊行法) by holding
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