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).
A crowd of over 200 people gathered outside the Taipei District Court as two sisters indicted for abusing a 1-year-old boy to death attended a preliminary hearing in the case yesterday afternoon. The crowd held up signs and chanted slogans calling for aggravated penalties in child abuse cases and asking for no bail and “capital punishment.” They also held white flowers in memory of the boy, nicknamed Kai Kai (剴剴), who was allegedly tortured to death by the sisters in December 2023. The boy died four months after being placed in full-time foster care with the
A Taiwanese woman on Sunday was injured by a small piece of masonry that fell from the dome of St Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican during a visit to the church. The tourist, identified as Hsu Yun-chen (許芸禎), was struck on the forehead while she and her tour group were near Michelangelo’s sculpture Pieta. Hsu was rushed to a hospital, the group’s guide to the church, Fu Jing, said yesterday. Hsu was found not to have serious injuries and was able to continue her tour as scheduled, Fu added. Mathew Lee (李世明), Taiwan’s recently retired ambassador to the Holy See, said he met
A BETRAYAL? It is none of the ministry’s business if those entertainers love China, but ‘you cannot agree to wipe out your own country,’ the MAC minister said Taiwanese entertainers in China would have their Taiwanese citizenship revoked if they are holding Chinese citizenship, Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) Minister Chiu Chui-cheng (邱垂正) said. Several Taiwanese entertainers, including Patty Hou (侯佩岑) and Ouyang Nana (歐陽娜娜), earlier this month on their Weibo (微博) accounts shared a picture saying that Taiwan would be “returned” to China, with tags such as “Taiwan, Province of China” or “Adhere to the ‘one China’ principle.” The MAC would investigate whether those Taiwanese entertainers have Chinese IDs and added that it would revoke their Taiwanese citizenship if they did, Chiu told the Chinese-language Liberty Times (sister paper
The Chinese wife of a Taiwanese, surnamed Liu (劉), who openly advocated for China’s use of force against Taiwan, would be forcibly deported according to the law if she has not left Taiwan by Friday, National Immigration Agency (NIA) officials said yesterday. Liu, an influencer better known by her online channel name Yaya in Taiwan (亞亞在台灣), obtained permanent residency via marriage to a Taiwanese. She has been reported for allegedly repeatedly espousing pro-unification comments on her YouTube and TikTok channels, including comments supporting China’s unification with Taiwan by force and the Chinese government’s stance that “Taiwan is an inseparable part of China.” Liu
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