A farewell party honors retiring Robert W. Belt, country director of the International Executive Service Corps, at the Grand Hotel. Li Huang, one of the two chair men of the Young China Party, returns from the United States for the party's 13th national convention.
Communications Minister Lin Chin-sheng presents citations to outstanding mariners and marine personnel and families to mark the 25th Marine Day.
Fifteen foreign teams arrive for the 1979 World Invitational Taekwondo Tournament.
Dr. Ku Cheng-kang, honorary chairman of the World Anti Communist League, flies to the United States to attend American activities marking Captive Nations Week.
14. President Chiang Ching-kuo receives Young China Party leaders Chen Chi-tien, Li Huang and Wang Shih-tseng.
The 1979 World Taekwondo Invitational Tournament opens at the Taipei Physical Education College stadium with more than 300 Taekwondo masters from 22 countries and territories participating.
15. President Chiang Ching-kuo presents a bronze statue of Kuan Yu, hero of the Three Kingdoms period - to the people of Tashi town in Taoyuan County. President Chiang Ching-kuo makes a tour of the Feitsui Reservoir area to inspect construction sites and engineering blueprints and plans for the multipurpose project to serve Taipei.
Gerard Dorcely, secretary of state for foreign affairs of the Republic of Haiti, arrives for a seven-day visit.
16. The First National Development Seminar of 1979 begins panel discussions with Finance Minister Philip C.C. Chang addressing the finance and economic group.
Four deputies of the French National Assembly - Jean Desarilis, Alain Madelin, Charles Million and Gerard Longuet - arrive for a seven-day visit.
17. Three baseball teams open play in the Far East preliminaries of the Senior Little League World Series.
Ambassador Ock Man Ho of the Republic of Korea visits Kinmen. Vice President Shieh Tung-min receives a 75-member delegation to the Council on International Relations Inc. from Topeka, Kansas, led by President David M. Bryan.
18. Ku Cheng-kang, honorary president of the World Anti Communist League, receives the Liberty Award from the National Captive Nations Committee of the United States.
The Republics of China and Haiti issue a joint communique pledging closer cooperation in economics and commerce with stepped-up exchanges of technology, science and culture after initialing by Y.S. Tsiang, minister of foreign affairs, and Gerard Dorcely, Haiti's secretary of state for foreign affairs.
19. A 96-member cultural delegation from Tahiti arrives for a 17-day visit.
A memorial service for Chinese soccer star and promoter Lee Wai-tong is held in Taipei. Activities in observance of Captive Nations Week open throughout Taiwan.
21. Vice President Shieh Tung min inspects Yunlin and Nantou Counties and is briefed by Yunlin Magistrate Lin Heng-sheng and Nantou Magistrate Liu Yu-yu on construction and other projects. Vice Foreign Minister H.K. Yang returns home after presiding over a chiefs of mission meeting in Bogota, Colombia.
Seventeen Chinese mainland refugees who reached Hengchun, the southernmost tip of Taiwan, from Kwangtung are brought to Taipei. They spent four days and four nights on the water in a flimsy boat.
U.S. Representatives David Daniel Marriott and Marvin H. Mickey arrive for Captive Nations Week. 22. Tung-feng Senior Leaguers from Taichung win the Far Eastern Senior League baseball champion ship and a place in the World Series at Gary, Indiana.
Hilmar L. Solberg, president of Kiwanis International, arrives for a three-day visit.
A mass rally commemorating Captive Nations Week is held at the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall in Taipei with Dr. Ku Cheng kang, honorary chairman of the World Anti-Communist League, presiding.
23. One of Britain's leading edi tors, Edward Thompson, arrives for a three-day visit.
The 13th national convention of the Young China Party opens at the Taipei City Auditorium with 450 representatives participating.
24. Minister of Foreign Affairs Tsiang Yien-si decorates Dr. Juan Manuel Frutos, chairman of the World Anti-Communist League in Paraguay, with the Order of Brilliant Star with Grand Cordon in recognition of his contributions to the free world anti-Communism movement.
An international colloquium on electrical circuits and systems opens at Tamkang College.
The Far Eastern playoffs of the Little League baseball tournament opens in Taipei with teams from Japan, South Korea, Hongkong, Guam, the Philippines, Indonesia and the Republic of China participating.
25. World Little League chairman Peter J. McGovern arrives for a two-day visit.
Republic of China Big League-Little League baseballers return from Guam with the Far Eastern championship and a place in the World Series at Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
President Chiang Ching-kuo inspects third nuclear power plant construction at Pingtung in southern Taiwan.
26. President Chiang Ching-kuo announces the appointments of Yang Hsi-kun as ambassador to South Africa, Fredrick Chien as political vice foreign minister and Wang Chia-yi as political vice justice minister.
The Republic of China recognizes the new government of Nicaragua.
28. Chow Hong-tao, minister of state, leaves for La Paz as special envoy to attend the inauguration of Bolivia's President David Padilla Arancibia.
Chang Kwang-shih, minister of economic affairs, holds a press conference to announce a power rate increase averaging 30 per cent.
Chinese and American friends of Lt. Gen. Claire Chennault gather for a memorial service at Taipei's New Park on the 21st anniversary of his death.
30. A 32-member delegation of the U.S. National Conference of State Legislatures led by its president, George B. Roberts Jr., speaker of the New Hampshire House, arrives for an eight-day visit.
Defending world champion Re public of China shuts out Japan, 10-0, to capture the Far East Little League baseball champion ship and win a berth in the World Series at Williamsport, Pa.
31. The national women's basket ball team of Indonesia arrives for a 10-day visit.
Aug. 2. E.B. Walker III, executive vice president and director of the Gulf Oil Corporation, and R.W. Baldwin, president of Gulf Oil Refining and Marketing Company, arrive for a visit.
3. An exhibition of Chinese main land photos taken by Henry Derr Gill, director of photography of the Chicago Sun-Times, is held at the Far Eastern Department Store.
4. Ho Yen-sheng, former Saigon correspondent for the China
Times of Taipei, who had been stranded in Vietnam since 1975, arrives in Taipei from an isolated island in the South China Sea where he spent 70 days as a refugee.
5. The Tungkwang team from Tainan City finishes third in its age group at the 1979 International Soccer Tournament on Long Island, N.Y.
President Chiang Ching-kuo visits the fishing village of Jentse while touring the newly completed northern coast highway.
6. All-Star Little League Big Leaguers of the Republic of China leave for Fort Lauderdale, Fla., to take part in the World Series.
Yeh Shih-hsiu and Chao Tsun hsiao are sworn as chief executive and deputy chief executive of the Central Executive Committee of the Young China Party.
8. Thirty fathers are cited at a Fathers' Day rally.
Edward J. Hopkins, executive vice president, International Executive Service Corps, arrives for four-day visit.
9. General Ho Ying-chin, 90, chairman of the Strategy Advisory Committee to the Presidential Office, leaves for Switzerland to participate in the 1979 World Moral Re-Armament Conference. Chang Hsuin-shwen, vice chairman of the Council for Agricultural Development, is appointed administrative vice minister of economic affairs.
A French Veterans Association group of 48 members arrives for a week's visit.
10. The newly completed Keelung-Suao Highway opens to traffic.