President Reagan appoints Anna C. Chennault, Republican leader and businesswoman born in China, as vice chairman of his Export Council.
12. A delegation of assistants to members of the U.S. House of Representatives arrives for a seven-day visit.
President Chiang Ching-kuo inspects Nantou County and greets residents.
13. Gabriel Peronnet, member of the National Assembly of the French Republic, arrives for a six-day visit.
The Fourth People-to-People Asian Regional Meeting opens at the Lai Lai Shangri-La Hotel.
Mrs. Anna Chennault arrives on a business trip.
A 10-member delegation of representatives of the National Chamber of the Republic of Ecuador led by Dr. Gil Barragan Romero vice president, arrives for a nine-day visit.
14. Mayor of Taipei Lee Teng-hui leads a delegation to San Francisco for a five-day goodwill visit.
Four congressmen from the Republic of Costa Rica led by Hector Carballo Chaves arrive for a seven-day visit.
President Chiang Ching-kuo receives Arturo O. Melo, minister of commerce of the Republic of Panama.
Dr. Alphons Egli, member of the Federal Assembly of the Swiss Confederation, and Dr. Carl Mugglin, president of Lucerne Canton, arrive for an eight-day visit.
The 1981 conference of the Vocational Assistance Commission for Retired Servicemen opens with 111 foreign representatives from 36 countries and 621 former ROC servicemen attending.
15. Cesar Elvir Sierra, minister of foreign affairs of the Republic of Honduras, arrives for a six-day visit.
16. Dr. Arnildo Meza Paez, member of the board of directors of the Central Bank of the Republic of Paraguay, arrives for a three-day visit.
The Chung Cheng Cultural Center in Kaohsiung is opened to the public by Mayor Wang Yu-yung. Mayor Dianne Feinstein accepts a Chinese-style pavilion as a gift to the City of San Francisco from the people of Taipei.
17. Dr. Kenneth B. Kramer, member of U.S. House of Representatives, arrives for a six-day visit. The Third Conference of the Road Engineering Association of Asia and Australasia is held at the Lai Lai Shangri-la Hotel in Taipei with more than 800 persons from some 20 countries participating.
A 25-member tourism and friendship mission from the Philippines arrives for four days of promotional activities.
21. Taiwan Province and the State of Virginia sign a sister state relationship.
A 14-member delegation of the Chamber of Deputies of the Dominican Republic led by Dr. Hatuey de Camps, speaker of the Chamber of Deputies, arrives for an eight-day visit.
An 18-member national judo team from the Philippines arrives for a week's training course and to participate in friendly competition.
A 29-member track and field team flies to Seoul for a two-day meet.
18. A 41-member Virginia state trade delegation led by Governor John N. Dalton arrives for a six-day visit.
James A. Dunn, member of the British Parliament, arrives for a 10-day visit.
The China Times invites four well-known photojournalists to a seminar for college and university journalism majors.
20. Dr. Robert L. Livingston and Dr. Daniel E. Lungren, members of U.S. House of Representatives, arrive for a seven-day visit.
22. Dr. Michael Kothris, vice chairman of the Association for the Development of Relations between Greece and the Republic of China, arrives for an eight-day visit. President Chiang Ching-kuo observes his 71st birthday with a working day at the office.
23. Premier Sun Yun-suan receives Sun Ma Si Tseng, a Cantonese opera singer from Hongkong, at the Executive Yuan.
Sun Ma Si Tseng donated NT$1 million to help poor and homeless senior citizens of the country.
24. Frank Church, former chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee of the U.S. Senate, arrives for a five-day visit.
25. The Second Chung Cheng World Cup International Youth Handball Championships open at the Taipei County Stadium with men's and women's teams from the Republic of China, United States, South Korea, West Germany and France competing.
Madame Ines Duran de Duarte, wife of El Salvador's Revolutionary Junta Chairman Jose Napoleon Duarte, arrives for a seven-day visit.
27. Milton Friedman, 1976 Nobel laureate in economics, arrives for a visit at the invitation of the Institute of Economics of the Academia Sinica.
More than 100 Central Committee members of the Kuomintang donate blood in a drive started by Tsiang Yien-si, secretary general of the committee.
29. The Central Standing Commit tee of the Kuomintang approves the appointment of Yao Peng as president of the Central Daily News and partial reorganization of KMT personnel.
Kuan Chung takes over from Yu Chung-chi as chairman of the Taipei Municipal Commit tee; Cheng Hsin-hsiung takes Kuo Che's position as chairman of the Kaohsiung Municipal Committee; Wu Wan-lan and Tsai Chung-hsiung become deputy directors of the KMT Organizational Affairs Department; Hsu Kan-tsung becomes deputy director of the Youth Affairs Department; Chen Shui-liang, deputy director of the Social Affairs Department; Wu Shih-Yuan, deputy director of the Evaluation and Discipline Committee; Chang Chi-he, deputy director of the Mainland Operations Department; and Shen Hsu-pu, deputy director of the Cultural Affairs Department.
30. Canadian parliamentarians J. Roland Comtois, Rene Cousineau and Gerard Duguet arrive for a week's visit.
Carl H. Schoenbichler, vice president of the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber, arrives to open the Austrian trade office.
May 1. Bolivia opens its embassy in Taipei with Jorge Equino Parada as charge d'affaires.
Labor Day is observed at the Taipei City Auditorium with more than 2,000 union representatives participating.
The Taiwan Area High School Athletic Meet opens at Taipei.
The Taiwan Provincial Assembly celebrates its 35th anniversary with a reception at its seat in Wu-feng, Taichung County.
4. The first European trade fair in the Republic of China is held at the Taipei World Trade Center with some 293 companies from 13 Western European countries participating.
Dr. Eduardo Carrera Hughes, adviser to the Commission of Political Affairs of the Armed Forces of Uruguay, arrives for an eight-day visit.
Jean Andre Victor, director general of the Organization of the Valley of Artibonite of the Re public of Haiti, arrives for an eight-day visit.
South Korean Interior Minister Suh Jeung Hwa arrives for a four-day visit.
Colonel Marco Antonio Rosales Abella, president of the Honduran Military Academy, arrives for a five-day visit.
5. The 2,353rd anniversary of the birth of Mencius is observed at the Taipei City Auditorium.
7. A 15-member delegation from the Parliament of the Republic of Colombia led by Dr. Hernando Turbay, speaker of the House of Representatives, arrives for a six-day visit.
A 14-member delegation of the Japanese Liberal Democratic party, including seven members of the Diet, arrives for a five-day visit.
President Chiang Ching-kuo, accompanied by Minister of Economic Affairs Chang Kwang-shih, visits the European Products Exhibition.
8. Dr. Han Li-wu is re-elected president of the Chinese Association for Human Rights.
Tsai Wei-ping, new representative of the Coordination Council for North American Affairs Office in the United States, leaves for Washington to assume his post.
9. Minister of Communications Lin Chin-sheng leaves for a week's visit in Saudi Arabia.
The government raises the prices of fertilizer by some 30 percent.
More than 100 American officials and business leaders arrive to participate in the ROC-US Trade and Investment Forum at Taipei.
T.W. Wu, president of the China Shipbuilding Corporation, signs a contract with Leif Lindgren, deputy president of Navire Inc. of Sweden, for a technical cooperation program.
Navire will send technicians to Kaohsiung to help CSBC produce ship parts.
10. Chief of the General Staff of the Republic of Guatemala Don Louis Rene Mendoza Paloma arrives for a seven-day visit.