December 16. Minister of Economic Affairs K.T. Li returns from the ministerial conference of the Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East in Bangkok.
A 72-member agricultural mission from Gunma prefeoture of Japan ends a 10-day study tour of Taiwan.
17. Malaysian Education Minister Mohamed Khir Johari leaves for Kuala Lumpur after a three-day visit.
18. Mexican Ambassador to China Julian Rodriguez Adame arrives.
19. Dr. Sukich Nimmanheminda, executive secretary of the Conference of the Southeast Asian Education Ministers, arrives for a three-day visit.
Chu Hui-shen, secretary-general of the Ministry of Education, is appointed education vice minister.
Dr. M. F. Burrill, director of the Office of Geography, U.S. Department of the Interior, arrives for a three-day visit.
20. Ian Sinclair, Australian minister of shipping and transportation, arrives to attend the first Sino-Australian economic and trade conference.
Abraham M. Tilo, director of information and tourism of Lesotho, leaves after an 11-day visit.
21. The first Sino-Australian Trade and Economic Relations Conference is held in Taipei.
Mrs. Maria Helena Camara and Mrs. Mavy A. Harmon, Brazilian delegates to the conference of the World Anti-Communist League held in Saigon, arrive for a two-day visit.
22. Marcel Longema, roving ambassador of the Congo (Kinshasa), arrives for a four-day visit.
23. Sen. Fethi Tevetaglu of Turkey and Albol Hassan Ehteshami, chairman of the World Anti-Communist League Iranian Chapter, arrive for a six-day visit.
25. The nation marks the 21st Constitution Day.
26. Miss Elena Ramirez, founder and president of the Chung Shan College in Uruguay, arrives for a two-month study tour.
Argon Kuan, secretary of the Foreign Ministry, is named ambassador to Rwanda to succeed Shen Tsu-shun.
29. Ninety-two "combat heroes" of the year and 74 political officers of the armed forces are honored in Taipei.
30. S. Perry Ryan, vice chairman of the foreign relations and national defense committee of the Canadian House of Commons, arrives for a week's visit.
January 1, 1969. The nation marks the 58th anniversary of the founding of the Republic.
2. Jose Carlos Ferreyros Balta, outgoing Peruvian ambassador to China and concurrently to Japan, arrives for a farewell visit.
4. U.S. Rep. Richard T. Hanna arrives for a five-day visit.
5. Miss Chi Cheng, winner of a bronze medal in the 1968 Olympic Games, leaves for Los Angeles to continue her studies.
6. Four Chinese college students leave for Seoul to attend the fourth Asian Students' Conference.
7. Y. L. Liang, adviser to the Chinese delegation to the 23rd U.N. General Assembly, returns to Taipei.
8. Japan Diet member Heihachiro Otake arrives for a five-day visit.
9. Lt. Gen. Michael S. Davidson, deputy commander-in-chief of the U.S. Army Pacific, leaves after a three-day visit.
A five-member Chinese highway engineering mission leaves for Malta on a two-day assignment to help the Maltese government build a 200-kilometer highway.
Jacques Marcuse, former Peiping correspondent of Agence France Presse, arrives for a brief visit.
10. Five Latin American ambassadors in Tokyo arrive to attend ceremonies marking the maiden round- the-world voyage of the M.V. Oriental Rio.
C.C. Lai, spokesman of the Foreign Ministry, dies of throat cancer.
11. Chow Hong-tao, new director-general of the Directorate-General of Budgets, Accounts and Statistics of the Executive Yuan, assumes his post.
Tu Chun-heng, former vice minister of finance, assumes his post as finance commissioner of the Taiwan Provincial Government.
12. Real Caouette, a member of the Canadian House of Commons, arrives for a five-day visit.
Twenty students of Beloit College of Beloit, Wisconsin, arrive for a 14-week study tour. Hiroshi Omori, president of the Japanese Defense University, arrives for a brief visit.
13. Mayor Eulogio E. Borres of Cebu, the Philippines, arrives for a six-day visit.
15. Five Japanese Diet members arrive for a week's visit.