17. The Foreign Exchange and Trade Control Commission says free China exported US$8,755,980 worth of petroleum products in 1962. The Philippines, Korea, Hongkong, and Vietnam were principal buyers.
18. One hundred and thirty-eight candidates begin campaigns for 74 Taiwan Provincial Assembly seats.
The government announces 50 metric tons (55 short tons) of relief rice were shipped to the Congo (Leopoldville) April 16.
19. Phairot Jayanama, vice foreign minister of Thailand, arrives for a visit.
Admiral Ni Yue-si, commander-in-chief of the Chinese Navy leaves for Australia for a week's stay.
Taiwan had 5,863,381 farmers in a 1961 population of 11 million, according to a survey.
20. President Chiang Kai-shek appoints Yang Yun-chu as ambassador to Paraguay and Senba P.W. Seng as ambassador to Peru.
Joseph A. Yager, director of the office of Northeast Asia Affairs of the U.S. Department of State, arrives for a three-day visit.
21. President Chiang Kai-shek calls on the members of the Chinese Association for the United Nations to rally similar associations in other countries against the Communist aggressors.
22. In an exclusive interview with a Washington Daily News correspondent, President Chiang says Khrushchev would not use Soviet military troops to bail out Mao Tse-tung if Peiping became involved in "serious trouble" with the West.
24. Carlos Echague, new Argentine ambassador to China, arrives.
25. A six-member Chinese Moslem mission leaves for Mecca to attend the second world Moslem conference.
27. General Chen Chia-shang, commander-in-chief of the Chinese Air Force, leaves for Hawaii for a five-day visit.
Joseph J. Lombardo, senior vice commander-in-chief of the U.S. Veterans of Foreign Wars, arrives for a five-day visit.
28. Sixty-nine per cent of 5.2 million eligible voters cast ballots for members of Taiwan's third Provincial Assembly.
C. K. Yang breaks the world decathlon record by scoring 9,121 points at Mt. San Antonio College stadium near Los Angeles.
29. Election returns send 64 men and 10 women to Taiwan's third Provincial Assembly.
A five-member Thai military education study mission arrives for a four-day visit.
30. A four-man Sino-African technical cooperation survey mission leaves for Africa for a 40-day inspection tour.
The government decorates outgoing Turkish Ambassador Tevfik Kazim Kemahli with the Order of the Brilliant Star with Grand Cordon in appreciation of his contributions to Sino-Turkish friendship.
Louis Rakotomalala, Malagasy delegate to the United Nations and concurrently ambassador to the United States, arrives for a four-day visit.
May 1. Vice President Chen Cheng urges the development of heavy industry following the successful completion of the land-to-the-tiller program in Taiwan.
Presidential Secretary General Chang Chun leaves for Tokyo to attend a Moral Rearmament Asian regional conference and a meeting of the Committee for the Promotion of Sino-Japanese Cooperation.
3. Carlos Echague, new Argentine ambassador to China, presents his credentials to President Chiang Kai-shek.
Emile de Curton, outgoing French minister to China, leaves for Manila to become ambassador to the Philippines.
5. Dr. Charlos Vasquez Ayllon, director of the Department of Culture, Information and Publicity of the Peruvian Foreign Office, arrives for an eight-day visit.
6. The eighth joint session of the Committee for Promotion of Sino-Japanese Cooperation opens in Tokyo. Ku Cheng-kang, head of the Chinese delegation, cites factual evidence to show that the Communist "Three Red Banners" have ended in failure.
The Chinese Association for the United Nations elects General Ho Ying-chin, chairman of the Military Strategy Advisory Committee, as president to succeed Dr. Chu Chia-hua, who died of a heart attack January 3.
7. K. T. Li, secretary general of the Council for United States Aid, leaves for the United States for a physical checkup.
8. Thanpuying Vichitra Dhanarajata, wife of Field Marshal Sarit Dhanarajata, prime minister and supreme commander of the armed forces of Thailand, arrives for a five-day visit.
9. The Executive Yuan (cabinet) appoints Wang Kung-chi as ambassador to the Malagasy Republic to succeed Tsiang Un-kai.
Kim Chung Tae, vice minister of agriculture and forestry of south Korea, arrives to negotiate purchase of rice.
10. The eighth joint session of the Committee for Promotion of Sino-Japanese Cooperation winds up a five-day conference in Tokyo.
11. Taiwan exports totaled US$77,125,000 in the first three months of 1963 for a favorable balance of US$4,874,000, the Foreign Exchange and Trade Control Commission announces.
The government has resettled 124,056 retired servicemen since the program started in 1955, General Chiang Ching-kuo, chairman of the Vocational Assistance Commission for Retired Servicemen, declares.
12. Thanpuying Vichitra Dhanarajata, wife of Field Marshal Sarit Dhanharajata, prime minister and supreme commander of the armed forces of Thailand, leaves after a five-day visit.
Kao Hsin, chairman of the Overseas Chinese Affairs Commission, urges the Indonesian government to put a stop to anti Chinese rioting in West Java.
14. Jorge Bueso Arias, economic and finance minister of Honduras, concludes a five-day visit.
15. The multi-purpose Shihmen Dam reservoir will begin storing water in early June, the Shihmen Development Commission announces.