Economic Vice Minister Y.T. Wong leaves for Washington to participate in the U.S. ROC negotiations.
A 2l-member U.S. Congressional delegation, including six members of the House of Representatives led by Lester L. Wolff, chairman of the Subcommittee on Asian and Pacific Affairs of the House Foreign Relations Committee, arrives for a three-day visit.
12. Julio Cesar Turbay Quintero, son of the president of the Republic of Colombia, arrives for an eight-day visit.
13. President Chiang Ching-kuo and Premier Sun Yun-suan receive the visiting U.S. Congressional mission led by Representative Lester Wolff.
Yubelly Garcia and Claudia Garcia arrive from Colombia to take part in table tennis play.
Former President C.K. Yen presents a citation to Miss Liao Wei-wei for her writings on the 1976 Tiananmen Square incident at Peiping.
14. Members of the defense committee of the Japanese Diet arrive for a visit.
South Korean Ambassador Ock Man Ho visits Taichung Harbor in central Taiwan.
Premier Y.S. Sun inspects Kinmen and Penghu and calls on the armed forces of the islands to remain alert against Chinese Communist aggression.
15. A seven-member French mission led by National Assemblyman Arthur Peacht arrives for an eight-day visit.
Shin Kanamaru, member of the Japanese Diet and former director of the Japanese Self-Defense Agency, arrives for a visit.
A 71-member Chinese children's choir from the Republic of Korea arrives in Taipei on a singing tour.
A five-member U.S. Congressional mission arrives for a nine-day visit.
James Soong, formerly deputy director general of the Government Information Office, assumes duties as acting director general.
Education Minister Chu Hui-sen decorates Simon Moeketsi Mokete, chairman of the National Olympic Committee of Lesotho, for his contributions to sports exchanges between the two countries.
16. Lee Hung-po, a Korean freedom seeker, arrives for World Freedom Day activities in Taipei.
Military Police celebrate the 47th anniversary of their founding with the declaration of 120 junior officers that they will remain in service for life.
17. Dr. Han Lih-wu addresses the opening session of the International Anti-Communist Youth Seminar.
Robert Charles Smith, American Legion past national commander, arrives for World Freedom Day activities.
A 52-member Japanese Diet mission headed by Hirokichi Nadao arrives for a week's visit.
South Korean Congressmen Kil Ki Sang and Kim Young Shai and an official of the National Assembly, Chang Kyung Soon, arrive for Freedom Day.
The Legislative Yuan approves the new labor insurance law.
18. A group of 12 foreign student advisers from nine U.S. universities arrives for a week's visit.
19. Aleke Banda, chairman of the Commercial Bank of Malawi and chairman of Air Malawi, arrives for a six-day visit.
The former U.S. ambassador to the Republic of China, Leonard Unger, leaves for home.
20. C.T. San, vice president of China Airlines, and RJ. Campbell, vice president of the Boeing Company of the United States, sign an agreement for CAL purchase of cargo aircraft.
22. A two-member International Olympic Committee fact-finding team of L. Cross, a New Zealand IOC member, and T. Bridge, a Jamaican IOC member, arrive for a six-day visit.
Wang Meng-hsien, director of the North American Affairs Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, departs for Washington to assist Vice Foreign Minister H.K. Yang in negotiations with the United States.
23. Premier Y.S. Sun is the principal speaker at the Taipei World Freedom Day rally attended by some 3,000 people.
General Wang Sheng, director of the Political Warfare Department of the Ministry of National Defense, inspects the frontline is lands of Kinmen and Matsu.
25. President Chiang Ching-kuo attends the centennial observance for the late Tan Yen-kai and greets Tan's daughter.
Loh I-cheng, director of the Chinese Information Office in New York, returns home after 14 years of service in the United States.
28. The nation marks the Chinese New Year of the Sheep with firecrackers and family gatherings.
30. President Chiang Ching-kuo receives members of a U.S. Congressional mission led by Representative George Hansen.
Admiral Soong Chang-chih, chief of general staff, returns from an inspection of Matsu.
31. C. de Jager, chairman of the International Council of the Scientific Union, ends a four-day visit.
Feb. 1. The 1979 Seminar for Overseas Chinese Students opens at the Youth Activity Center in Taipei.
2. Ricardo E. Chiari, ambassador of Panama, returns home for reassignment.
3. A children's choir organized by the Taipei Reporters Club departs for Southeast Asia on a singing tour.
Some 180 principals of high schools gather at Panchiao for a winter camp.
Ramiro Andrade Teran, chairman of the Third Committee of the House of Representatives of the Republic of Colombia, arrives for an eight-day visit.
Robert P. Parker, president of American Chamber of Commerce in the Republic of China, leaves for Washington to testify at hearings of the Senate International Relations Committee.
Governor Lin Yang-kang visits farm families in Miaoli and Taichung counties to seek an understanding of their problems.
4. The 29th Taiwan Province Basketball Tournament opens at two Taipei gymnasiums.
Australian Senator John Peter Sirn arrives for a five-day visit.
Ran In-ting, an internationally known watercolorist, dies of a heart attack at the age of 76.
Dr. Li Tchong-kuoi, president of the Pacific Cultural Foundation, leaves for the United States to attend a meeting on education.
A rally in Tainan marks Farmer's Day.
5. Chinese Ambassador to South Korea Chu Fu-sung returns for consultations.
The four-day Western Pacific Regional Workshop on Mental Health opens at the Chientan Youth Activity Center in Taipei.
Premier Sun Yun-suan urges the heightening of vigilance against Chinese Communist infiltration and subversion.
6. Six American community college presidents arrive for a nine-day visit at the invitation of the Ministry of Education.
Taiwan Machinery Manufacturing Corporation and the Chrysler Motor Company agree to a US$70 million Joint venture to produce heavy-duty trucks and passenger cars in Taiwan.
Descendants of Yen Tsu, a leading disciple of Confucius, observe the 2498th birthday of their ancestor in ceremonies at the Sungshan Yen Tsu Temple.
8. Ovidia Aparicio Coca, Bolivian national police chief, arrives for a nine-day visit.
A flag-bedecked diesel train makes its maiden run on the southern section of the new Suao-Hualien east coast railway.
General Ock Man Ho, new ambassador of the Republic of Korea, reviews honor guards of the Army.
9. Dr. C.J. Verplanke, mayor of Ridderkerk in the Netherlands, arrives for a five-day visit.
The Republic of China Physics Association holds its 20th anniversary meeting at National Taiwan Normal University.
The second annual Tourism Day is observed in Taipei.
10. Taipei International Women's Club's Chinese members invite foreign members to the traditional Chinese New Year's party at the Nine Dragon Hall of the Mandarin Hotel.
Governor Lin Yang-kang appoints Hsu Tsung-teh, 51, director of the Provincial Social Affairs Department.
Hsu, from Changhua, succeeds Hsu Shui-teh, who became director of the Kuomintang Central Committee's Department of Social Affairs.