Adm. Tsou Chien, commander-in-chief of the Chinese Navy, confers the Order of Cloud and Banner on Rear Adm. Lin Hyung Sup, director of the Korean Navy Information Department.
12. A two-day forum on Australia, New Zealand and East Asia opens under the sponsorship of the Asian & World Forum.
Gabriel Hauge, board chairman of Manufacturers' Hanover Trust, arrives for a brief visit.
The Cabinet approves a Sino-Malawi technical cooperation pact.
13. President Yen Chia-kan receives General Guillermo Noguera, chief of the general staff of the Republic of Nicaragua.
Sixty-six business leaders leave for San Francisco to attend the 11th World Chinese Traders Convention.
14. Dr. Edmundo Lopez Gomez, president of the Senate of the Republic of Colombia, arrives for a six -day visit.
Fifty-eight member hotels of the Taipei Tourist Hotel Association begin to raise the national flag of the Republic of China daily.
15. A five-member Kuomintang group led by Shu Ching-nan, deputy secretary general, leaves on a week's visit to Korea.
Premier Chiang Ching-kuo congratulates Ambassador Timoteo Alvarenga on the 166th anniversary of the Republic of Paraguay.
16. Rear Admiral J.H. Morris, commander of the special amphibious task force of the U.S. 7th Fleet, arrives for a three-day visit.
Vice Admiral Renan Olmedo Gonzalez, commandant of naval operations of the Republic of Ecuador, arrives for a six-day visit.
The four-day MACH TECH 77 Exhibition sponsored by the U.S. Trade Center opens at Taipei International House.
17. President Yen Chia-kan inspects the Chinese Petroleum Corporation's Taoyuan refinery and the petrochemical industrial zone in Miaoli county.
J.B. Purcell, regional director for Asia-Africa, Goodyear International Corporation, arrives for a visit.
Hans G. Tanzler Jr., the mayor of Jacksonville, Fla., arrives for a five-day visit.
A women's softball team from Oakland, Calif., arrives for a three-day visit.
18. China Airlines' new Boeing 747SP enters nonstop service between Taipei and the U.S. West Coast.
William H. Moore, chairman of the Bankers Trust Company of New York, arrives for a brief visit.
19. Colombian Congressman Abel Francisco Carbonell V. arrives for a week's visit.
20. The Broadcasting Corporation of China and the Paraguayan National Broadcasting Station sign a cooperation agreement.
National Chengchi University celebrates its 50th anniversary.
21. An amateur golf team leaves for Austria to take part in a golf tournament.
Mourners attend funeral services for Mason Yeh, deputy director general of the Government Information Office, who died May 3 at the age of 56.
Antonio Garcia de la Fuente, secretary general of the International Judo Federation, arrives for a visit.
President Yen Chia-kan receives Vice Admiral Renan Olmedo Gonzalez, commandant of naval operations of Ecuador.
22. A 37-member Korean delegation led by Lieutenant General Kim I1 Hwan, chairman of the Korean Tourist Association, arrives to attend the third China Korea Tourism Promotion Conference.
Premier Chiang Ching-kuo receives Vice Admiral Robert B. Baldwin, commander of the U.S. Seventh Fleet, at Kaohsiung.
23. A five-member delegation of the House Foreign Relations Committee of the Republic of Colombia headed by Ciro Nieto arrives for an eight-day visit.
President Yen Chia-kan receives William W. Morison, director and president of Foremost-McKesson Inc.
General Luis Rolando Tomasone, commander of the Training Center of the Paraguayan army, arrives for a week's visit.
24. The third annual China-Korea Tourism Promotion Conference opens at Shihmen in Taoyuan county.
25. David Rockefeller, board chairman of the Chase Manhattan Bank, arrives on a three-day business inspection tour.
President Yen Chia-kan receives Dr. Jerry McAfee, chairman of the board of the U.S. Gulf Oil Corporation.
26. Visiting Eugene A. Theroux, an American lawyer and former vice president of the National Council for U.S.-(Red) China Trade from 1973 to 1975, says trade between the United States and mainland China will remain small.
Ellmore C. Patterson, board chairman of the Morgan Guaranty Trust Company, arrives for a brief visit.
27. Frank F. Fasi, mayor of Honolulu, arrives for a five-day visit.
Chief of General Staff Admiral Soong Chang-chih presents a medal to Brigadier General L.R.
Forney Jr., chief of the U.S. Military Assistance Advisory Group.
28. Ulrick Saint Louis, director general of the New World Daily News of the Republic of Haiti, arrives for a week's visit.
Education Vice Minister Chu Hui-sen presents a sports medal to Jose D. Vallarino V., president of the National Olympic Committee of Uruguay.
29. A 12-member Japanese Diet team led by Sato Takashi arrives for a four-day visit.
30. President Yen Chia-kan cables greetings to the president of the South African Republic on the occasion of its national day.
President Yen Chia-kan receives the visiting delegation of the Colombian House Foreign Relations Committee.
Bertram B. Tower, board chair man of the U.S. International Telegraph & Telephone Corporation, arrives for a three-day visit.
31. A six-member delegation led by Ergul Ozsahiner, president of the Turkey Metals Union, arrives for a brief visit.
The Chinese Petroleum Corporation celebrates its 31st anniversary.
June 1. The Republic of China salutes Premier Chiang Ching-kuo on the fifth anniversary of his assumption of office.
2. Edward Luttwak, professor of the Johns Hopkins University of Baltimore, arrives for a visit.
3. A forum on the U.S. and East Asia opens in Taipei.
The 445,000-ton tanker Burmah Endeavour, built by the China Shipbuilding Corporation for U.S. Gatx-Oswego, is launched at Kaohsiung as the world's third largest vessel.
A symbolic burning ceremony at the Taipei City Auditorium plaza marks Opium Prohibition Day.
4. Finance Minister Walter H. Fei leaves on a trip to Central and South America.
5. The Chinese Institute of Engineers and other engineering organizations meet at the City Auditorium to commemorate Engineers Day.
6. Dr. Thomas G. Corcoran, special assistant to the attorney general in the Roosevelt administration, arrives for a 10-day visit.
An industrial delegation from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia headed by Ahmed Saleh A1 Twaijri, deputy minister of industry and electricity, arrives for a five-day visit.
7. A four-member golf team returns from Austria with first and second place trophies won in an international tournament.
Toshio Itakura, president of Japan Asia Airways, arrives for a three-day visit.
8. Amelito R. Mutue, president of the World Association of Lawyers, arrives for a three-day visit.
The Taiwan Railway Administration rallies to mark Railway Day.
9. President Yen Chia-kan receives an eight-member delegation from the Philippines.
The Central Bank announces a reduction in interest rates by an average of 0.5%.
President Yen Chia-kan names Tao Pei-chuan, former member of the Control Yuan, as an adviser.
Tourists totaled 478,415 from January through May, an increase of 13.6 per cent compared with the same period last year.
10. Senior Little League baseball teams begin all-island championship play.
A delegation of nine from the Computer Association of the Republic of China leaves for the Conference of Computer Science at Dallas, Texas.