August 16. The China Democratic Socialist Party, youngest of the three political parties in the Republic of China, celebrates its 16th anniversary. The other parties are the Kuomintang and the Young China Party.
The Executive Yuan appoints Finance Minister C. K. Yen as chief delegate at the annual meetings of the board of directors of three international monetary organizations: International Monetary Fund, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and International Development Association.
17. Dr. Gunsun Hoh, Chinese member of the Asian Games Executive Committee, returns from Bangkok after failing to get an Indonesian visa to attend the Committee's meeting in Jakarta August 21.
Patrick Pichi Sun, spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, says the Republic of China has the right to participate in the Fourth Asian Games and urges Indonesia not to mix sports and politics.
18. The Legislative Yuan amends the Civil Service Examination Law.
Adolfo Alfredo Bolline and Simon Diaz Castellanos, new envoys of Argentina and the Dominican Republic, present credentials to President Chiang Kai-shek.
19. The Republic of China's Olympic Committee demands that the Indonesian Organizing Committee for the Fourth Asian Games give a clear-cut answer on Chinese participation before midnight August 22.
S. T. Tsao, director of navigation and aviation of the Ministry of Communications, says regular shipping service between Taiwan and north Africa and Europe will be inaugurated by the end of 1962.
20. The Ministry of Education reports that 96 per cent of school-age children were in classrooms last year.
21. Dr. Gunsun Hoh is denied Indonesia entry after reaching Jakarta to attend the Asian Games Executive Committee meeting.
22. A sixth group of 94 mainland refugees arrives from Hongkong. Among them is Lu Ta-an, once Mao Tse-tung's swimming partner.
The Legislative Yuan amends the Law for Appointment of Civil Servants.
23. The Chinese Olympic Committee issues a statement urging the expulsion of Indonesia from the Asian Games Federation and all other international sports bodies for its obstruction of Chinese participation in the Fourth Asian Games.
24. The Executive Yuan names five delegates to the 17th regular session of the United Nations General Assembly: Dr. Liu Chieh, permanent representative to the United Nations; Chow Shu-kai, chairman of the Overseas Chinese Affairs Commission; Hsu Shu-hsi, ambassador to Peru and Bolivia; Wen Yuan-ning, ambassador to Greece; and Hsueh Yu-chi, deputy permanent representative to the United Nations.
Wang Chih-chen, ambassador to Argentina, is appointed concurrently as ambassador to Uruguay.
25. The 29th session of the Legislative Yuan adjourns after meeting for more than six months.
Trade authorities report foreign exchange earned from export of processed goods reached US$11 million for the first half of 1962, up 150 per cent.
A six-man trade mission led by Sherman Wang, deputy director of the Central Trust of China, leaves for eastern Africa for a two-month visit.
Yang Hsi-kun, director of West Asiatic Affairs Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, leaves for the Middle East and Africa for a month-long visit.
26. The Chinese Olympic Committee requests eight international sports federations to outlaw the Fourth Asian Games at Jakarta because Indonesia prevented Chinese participation.
Many overseas Chinese leaders are reported under arrest by Indonesian authorities because they were ready to welcome Chinese participation in the Fourth Asian Games.
27. Six Indonesians, rescued by a Chinese fishing boat after a shipwreck, arrive in Taiwan. They will be sent back to Indonesia.
The Republic of China opens an embassy in Bangui, capital of the Central African Republic, with Tchen Tse-kwei as charge d'affaires.
President Chiang Kai-shek condemns Indonesia for its collaboration with the Peiping regime to wreck the Asian Games and the Olympic spirit.
29. Eighteen refugees, forming the seventh group from Hongkong and Macao, arrive in Taiwan for resettlement. Arrivals total 525 in two months.
30. The Comptrollers' Office of the Executive Yuan says free China's national income in 1961 increased by 8.4 per cent as compared with 1960, per capita income by 4.2 per cent, national product by 7.8 per cent, employment by 2.8 per cent, agricultural production by 8 per cent and industrial production by 12.7 per cent.
The Northwest Pacific representative of the World Health Organization, Dr. Alan H. Penington, says the paracholera epidemic in Taiwan has been brought under control.
31. The government recognizes the newly independent Caribbean nation of Trinidad. Li Ti-tsun, ambassador to Brazil, is appointed special envoy to the independence celebration.
Foreign Minister Shen Chang-huan and U. S. Ambassador Alan G. Kirk sign an agreement for purchase of American agricultural commodities totaling US$8.4 million under long-term supply and credit arrangements.
September 1. Foreign Minister Shen Chang-huan reiterates the government's determination to recover the Chinese mainland and declares its unyielding opposition to the "two-China" concept.
2. A nine-member farmers' association study group of Vietnam arrives for a month-long visit.
3. Mass wedding ceremony for 254 military bridegrooms highlights Armed Forces Day celebrations.
Two goodwill missions from Africa arrive. One from Kenya is led by Minister of State for Constructional Affairs and Administration Ronald G. Ngala and the other from the Congo (Leopoldville) is headed by President of the Chamber of Representatives Yvon Kimpiobi.
4. President Chiang Kai-shek conveys his sympathy to Shah Mohamed Reza Pahlevi of Iran in the Iranian earthquake disaster.
5. Typhoon Amy with center winds of 135 miles sweeps across Taiwan, bringing heavy rainfall but causing no serious damage.
6. The Free China Relief Association donates HK$20,000 to the Hongkong government for the typhoon victims in Hongkong and Kowloon.
7. The government orders withdrawal of Chinese embassy personnel from Vientiane after breaking off diplomatic relations with Laos.
A group of 47 mainland refugees arrives from Hongkong for resettlement.
8. The Republic of China opens an embassy in Kingston, capital of the newly independent Caribbean nation of Jamaica, with Yu Peng as charge d'affaires.
Yvon Kimpiobi, president of the Chamber of Representatives of the Congo (Leopoldville), says his country stands firm behind the Republic of China in its struggle against Communism.
9. Chinese Air Force headquarters reports one of its U2 high-altitude reconnaissance planes bought from Lockheed Aircraft Corporation of the United States in 1960 is missing on a routine mission over the Chinese mainland.
President Chiang Kai-shek receives General Maxwell D. Taylor, military advisor to U. S. President John F. Kennedy.
10. Ninety cadets of the French Air Force Academy, led by commandant Major General M. Rouquette, arrive for a brief visit.
The Taiwan Provincial Tourism Council reports 24,170 tourists during the first half of 1962, an increase of 22.5 per cent over the same period last year.
Four research students of Stanford University arrive for a one-year study of Chinese language and culture at the Stanford Center for Chinese Studies.
11. First issue of 1962 short-term bonds totaling NT$300 million (US$7.5 million) is floated. Public subscription reaches NT$180 million (US$4.5 million) on the first day.
12. A favorable trade balance of US$5.5 million is reported for the first seven months of this year.
A four-man medical group sent by the government arrives in Libya to provide consultant services.
Gaston Agboton, director of information, press and propaganda of Dahomey, arrives for a week's visit.
13. The nation celebrates the Moon Festival with operatic shows, folk dances and feasting. Refugees from Hongkong said they had not enjoyed the festival for more than 10 years.
14. A seven-member goodwill mission from the Ivory Coast headed by Charles Donwahi, minister of agriculture and cooperatives, arrives for a nine-day visit.
15. President Chiang Kai-shek extends congratulations to President Adolfo Lopez Mateos of Mexico on the occasion of the Mexican national day which falls on September 16.