Nearly 400 performers, directors and producers attended the Festival. Dr. Fredrick F. Chien, director-general of the Government Information Office, presided.
Yonosuke Nakano, president of the Japanese Organization for Industrial, Spiritual and Cultural Advancement International, returns to Japan.
Nakano, 88, headed a 120-member Japanese goodwill mission.
13. A 22-member goodwill mission from the Thai National Defense College leaves for home after a four-day visit.
14. Vice Premier Hsu Ching-chung and Deputy Premier Cuthbert Edwy Talma of Barbados sign a joint communique in Taipei announcing extension of the Sino Barbados agricultural technical cooperation agreement.
Deputy Premier and Mrs. Talma left for home after a week's visit.
15. The closing ceremony of the 20th Asian Film Festival is held.
A six-member women's judo team leaves for Saigon to take part in an international meet.
16. The Military Academy celebrates its 50th anniversary at the Fengshan campus.
Economic Affairs Vice Minister Chang Kwang-shih returns after a three-week tour of the Middle East.
Chang went to Saudi Arabia and Jordan as the head of a Chinese economic mission.
Raksak Vadhanapanich and Kahjat Keepanich, deputy directors-general of the Thai Department of Public Relations, arrive for a week's visit.
Gen. John W. Vogt Jr., commander-in-ehief of the U.S. Air Force Pacific, arrives for a two-day visit.
17. Princess Inkhosikati Lamkonta, wife of Swaziland Prime Minister Prince Makhosini Dlamini, arrives for a week's visit.
Economic Affairs Minister Y.S. Sun leaves for Seoul to attend the 9th Sino-Korean Ministerial Level Economic Cooperation Conference.
19. Korean National Assembly Speaker Chung II Kwon and a party of 15 arrive for a four-day visit at the invitation of Premier Chiang Ching-kuo.
The Chinese national women's basketball team leaves for Seoul to participate in the 5th Asian women's championship tournament.
20. Dr. Amado M. Yuzon, president of the United Poets Laureate International, arrives to attend a meeting celebrating Chinese Poets' Day.
22. South Korean National Assembly Speaker Chung II Kwon leaves for home.
24. Robert E. Page, and Frank W. Beatty, vice presidents of United Press International, arrives for a three-day visit.
25. Dr. Wang Ching-mow takes over as director-general of the National Health Administration.
26. A 35-member youth swimming team of the Republic of China leaves for the Philippines to participate in the 5th Asian age group swimming championships.
Lic Carlos A. Viasquez, chairman of the Panamanian Olympic Committee and concurrently chairman of the Football Association of Panama, leaves after a five-day visit.
27. Korean National Assembly man Kim Jae Won and his wife, Soa Young Hee, also a member of the Korean National Assembly, arrive for a seven-day visit.
28. Badara N'Jie, Gambian minister of agriculture and natural resources, and S.M.B. Fye, senior economist of the Gambian Presidential Office, arrive for a four day visit.
29. The government announces suspension of diplomatic relations with Venezuela, which recognized the Chinese Communists.
The 6th National Little League Baseball Tournament ends with the Li Teh team of Kaohsiung City designated to represent the ROC in the Asian playoffs.
Women basketball players of Biola College, La Mirada, Calif., arrive for a two-week tour.
30. Jose Pavia, president of the Philippine News Agency, arrives for a three-day visit.
July 1. The 1974 Joint College Entrance Examination opens.
A total of 95,207 high school graduates took part in the two-day test.
The Khmer Republic women's basketball team arrives from Seoul for a week's visit.
A preparatory school of the Chinese military Academy is activated at Fengshan.
Expansion work at Suao port is started.
2. Commencement exercises for members of the 15th Seminar on Agricultural Techniques for African Technicians are held in Taipei.
A total of 718 participants from 31 African nations have attended the series of seminars in the last 12 years.
3. Jose Sering, president of the Asian Track and Field Association, arrives at the head of a Philippine contingent in the four nation track and field champion ships.
Noboru Goto, vice chairman of the Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry, leaves for home after a three-day visit.
4. A four-nation invitational track and field championship meet opens in Taipei.
A total of 472 athletes from South Korea, the Philippines, Thailand and Taiwan participated.
5. The 34-member Chinese youth swimming team led by Miss Yang Huang Siu-yu returns from Manila with 37 medals won in the 5th Asian age group swimming championships.
7. A Republic of China trade mission arrives in Amman for a three-day visit.
8. James Shankar Singh, minister for health of Fiji, arrives for a four-day visit.
Dr. Liu Ta-chung, Chinese economist, returns from the United States, to attend the conference of the Academia Sinica.
The Fifth Modem Engineering and Technology Seminar opens in Taipei.
More than 1,000 Chinese engineers, including 60 from the United States, participated.
10. The fourth executive board meeting of the Asian Cultural Center of the Asian Parliamentarians' Union opens a two-day session in Taipei with some 30 delegates and observers from 6 countries participating.