Ahmed Zeidan, Saudi Arabian Vice Minister of Communications, Posts and Telegraph, arrives for a two-day visit.
A 16-member mission of the Korean National War College arrives for a six-day visit.
17. A 14-member Turkish agricultural mission arrives for a 10-day visit.
The Executive Yuan (cabinet) appoints Feng Yueh-tseng and Chen Tse-kuei as ambassadors to Chad and Mauritania.
18. Outgoing Jordanian Ambassador Yusuf Haikal leaves for home.
19. Chad Economic Minister Abdoulaye Lamana arrives for an eight-day visit.
23. Communications Minister Shen Yi leaves for Munich to attend the first International Fair on Communications.
24. The Executive Yuan authorizes National Chengchi University to confer honorary doctorates on foreign nationals.
25. China and El Salvador exchange in Taipei the ratification instruments of a trade agreement signed in San Salvador in October, 1964.
The Legislative Yuan (parliament) approves a bill to sanction expansion of the number of seats on the U.N. Security Council and Economic and Social Council.
26. China and Chad issue a joint communique in Taipei, announcing a US$3 million Chinese grant to Chad for economic and social development.
Tu Yuan-tsai, president of Taiwan Normal University, leaves for London to attend the World University Presidents Conference.
Sixteen American teachers of Chinese arrive for eight weeks of classes in spoken Chinese and Chinese culture.
27. President Chiang Kai-shek appoints Admiral Ni Yue-si to be chief of the general staff and General Peng Meng-chi as presidential chief of staff.
28. A 25-member Thai agricultural mission arrives for a two-week study tour.
29. The Interior Ministry promulgates New Measures for Conscription During the Period of Emergency Dispersal.
A four-member police mission from the Congo (Leopoldville) arrives for a week's visit.
30. A five-member mission of the U.N. Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East arrives to discuss the establishment of the Asian Development Bank.
Bunchana Atthakor, Thai Vice Minister of Reconstruction, arrives for a week's visit.
July 1. The eight-week summer seminar on science opens in Taipei.
Five research centers (mathematics, chemistry, biology, physics, and engineering) are inaugurated in Taipei, Hsinchu, and Tainan.
2. China and the Philippines sign a three-year technical cooperation agreement in Manila.
3. Former Ambassador to Libya Chen Chih-ping returns from Tripoli.
5. Benjamin M. Gozon, director of the Philippine Land Reform Department, arrives for a week's study tour.
Lebit Yundoglu, a member of the Turkish Parliament, arrives for a 12-day visit.
Foreign Minister Shell Chang-huan says the number of Chinese diplomatic missions and consular offices abroad has increased from 54 in 1949 to 84 in 1965.
6. The U.S. Information Service in Taipei reports China sent 4,620 students to the United States during the 1964-65 academic year.
8. The Executive Yuan approves the floating of NT$500 million (US$12.5 million) worth of Patriotic Bonds in fiscal 1966.
10. Foreign Minister Shen Chang-huan leaves for Australia for a week's visit.
11. Sabino Alonso Fueyo, director of the Madrid Diario Arriba, arrives for a 10-day visit.
An 11-member Thai trade mission arrives for a three-day visit.
13. The fifth Agricultural Seminar for African Technicians is concluded.
Wesley C. Haraldson, former director of the U.S. Agency for International Development Mission to China, arrives for a three-day visit.
The 10-member Chinese farm demonstration team to Gabon returns for a month's vacation.
15. Mrs. Diosdado Macapagal, first lady of the Philippines, arrives for a five-day unofficial visit.
Wu Chien-hsiung, Chinese woman physicist returns to receive the first Chia Hsin award for "outstanding contributions to science".
The Executive Yuan appoints Tsiang Un-kai as ambassador to Cameroun.
The Executive Yuan approves a state funeral for Yu Yu-jen, the late president of the Control Yuan.
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ERRATUM
The article "Brazil: A Year After Revolution" in the issue of May, 1965, originated from a Brazilian source. The article was inadvertently attributed to Hsu Shao-chang, Chinese Ambassador to Brazil.
—Managing Editor