17. The Central Bank of China declares that foreign exchange reserves totaled US$243 million at the end of June, an increase of US$12 million.
18. The Argentine Navy training ship Libertad arrives for a four-day visit.
20. Foreign Minister Shen Chang-huan returns from a seven-day visit to Australia.
Spanish Ambassador Julio de Larracoechea decorates Premier C.K. Yen, Presidential Secretary-General Chang Chun and nine other Chinese officials on behalf of Generalissimo Franco.
Mrs. Diosdado Macapagal, wife of the Philippine President, leaves for Manila after a five-day informal visit.
T.H. Shen, chairman of the Joint Commission on Rural Reconstruction, leaves for the Ivory Coast to attend the Sino-African agricultural technical cooperation workshop.
An eight-member agricultural mission from Sierra Leone arrives for a week's visit.
22. The Council for International Economic Cooperation and Development and the International Executive Service Corps sign a technical service agreement in Taipei.
Lee Chu Il, chairman of the Korean Council for Government Audit and Inspection, arrives for an observation visit.
23. A group of Thai interior officials arrives for a week's inspection tour.
26. The Sino-African agricultural technical cooperation workshop is opened in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.
A four-member Upper Volta mission arrives for a 12-day goodwill visit.
China and Sierra Leone sign an agreement on technical cooperation in Taipei.
27. The Taiwan Tourism Association announces 62,535 tourists visited Taiwan in the first six months of 1965, an increase of 45 per cent over the same period last year.
29. A 19-member investment mission from Hongkong arrives for a 10-day visit.
The Executive Yuan (cabinet) appoints Chang Yen-tien, dean of the College of Agriculture, National Taiwan University, as commissioner of the Taiwan Provincial Department of Agriculture and Forestry.
Foo Ping-sheung, vice president of the Judicial Yuan, dies of heart attack at the age of 70.
30. The Foreign Ministry announces China and the United States have reached substantive agreement on the status of U.S. forces in China.
The Taiwan Provincial Government "announces free China's national income has increased by 7.4 per cent annually in the last 12 years.
31. Manuel Guerralro, governor of Guam, arrives for a five-day visit.
August 1. The government enforces the revised exit and entry regulations for foreign visitors.
A 102-member Japanese Boy Scout mission arrives for a two-week visit.
Four professors of the East-West Center of Hawaii University arrive to lecture on audio-visual education at the summer science seminar.
2. Vice Foreign Minister Yang Hsi-kun leaves for Africa for a two-month visit.
Former Ambassador to Mexico Ho Feng-shan returns.
Jolider Aguerburu, president of the Free Youth Association of Togo, arrives for a two-week visit,
3. China and Upper Volta sign a technical cooperation agreement in Taipei.
Communications Minister Shen Yi leaves for Manila for a three-day visit.
6. A five-member Malaysian government mission arrives for a four-day visit.
Fourteen Japanese military reporters arrive for a three-day visit.
Two Chinese Navy gunboats sink five Communist ships and damage two others south of Kinmen (Quemoy).
7. The Taiwan Provincial Government announces the province had a population of 12,429,083 at the end of June.
9. Twenty-one public relations officers of government establishments leave for Bangkok for an eight-day visit.
10. John W. Henderson, new director of the U.S. Information Service in China, arrives.
11. China recognizes Singapore.
Junya Koizumi, former director of the Japanese Self-Defense Agency, arrives for a four-day visit.
12. Foreign Minister Shen Chang-huan leaves for Japan for a week's visit.
Fernando Ortiz Sanz, Bolivian ambassador to the United Nations, arrives for a week's visit.
13. Tu Yuan-tsai, president of Taiwan Provincial Normal University, returns from England after attending the World University Presidents Conference.
14. Li Shih-tsung is elected president of the Control Yuan.
15. Premier Nguyen Cao Ky of South Vietnam arrives for a five-day visit.