Candidates for mayors and magistrates start local election campaigns.
Otto Mitterer, a member of the Austrian Parliament, arrives for an eight-day visit.
17. The Republic of China severs diplomatic relations with the Congo (Brazzaville).
Central Bank Governor P.Y. Hsu, leader of a nine-member economic goodwill mission, departs for a visit to nine South American countries.
18. President Chiang receives the U.S. delegation to the April 14-21 Sino-American conference on science cooperation.
19. Japanese Ambassador Shiroshichi Kimura leaves for home consultations.
21. Dominican Ambassador Jose Villanueva Garmendia presents his credentials to President Chiang.
Soo Young Lee, Korean observer to the United Nations, arrives for a four-day visit.
22. Rear Admiral Bernard A. Clarey, new deputy commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, arrives for a two-day visit.
23. New Jordanian Ambassador Yusef Halkal arrives.
24. A nine-man farm demonstration team leaves for Senegal for a two-year tour.
A three-man Japanese rice buying mission led by Kiyoaki Nakajima of the Food Agency arrives.
Defense Minister Yu Ta-wei leaves for the United States for a medical checkup.
25. American Ambassador Jerauld Wright leaves for home consultations.
Tran Ngoc Oanh, Minister of Public Works and Communications of South Vietnam, arrives for a six-day observation visit.
Haji Ismail Bin Panjang Aris, mayor of Kuala Lumpur, arrives for a six-day visit.
26. Nearly 4 million voters, a 70 per cent turnout, go to the polls to elect 16 county magistrates and 5 mayors.
General John K. Gerhart, commander-in-chief of the North American Air Defense Command, arrives for a two-day visit.
27. A second six-man Chinese medical team leaves for Libya for a two-year stay.
Admiral Liang Hsu-chao, new Chinese ambassador to Korea, leaves for Seoul.
28. Honduras Minister Jacques Harari arrives.
Japanese Ambassador Shiroshichi Kimura returns from Tokyo.
29. Lieutenant General James K. Woolnough, deputy commander-in-chief of the U.S. Army Pacific, arrives for a three-day visit.
Free China's gross national product increased by 6.4 per cent in 1963, according to the Directorate-General of Budget, Accounts, and Statistics of the Executive Yuan (cabinet).
20. The Executive Yuan approves the draft of the Sino-Colombian treaty of amity and cultural relations.
May 1. Secretary-General Tang Tsung of the Kuomintang (Nationalist Party) leaves for two-month U.S. tour.
2. Former Ambassador to the Congo (Brazzaville) Sampson C. Shen returns after severance of diplomatic relations.
The new 15-mile express highway between Taipei and Keelung is opened to traffic.
3. Yang Ching-nan, leader of a Sarawak trade mission, leaves after signing contracts with Taiwan companies.
4. The Academia Sinica establishes a committee for Sino-American science cooperation.
Admiral Felix Stump, USN (retired), arrives on a five-day business trip.
Luis Bedoya Reyes, mayor of Lima, arrives for a five-day visit.
5. The Legislative Yuan passes the Statute for Assistance to Retired Servicemen.
Phra Prakas Sahakorn, Thai Minister of State, arrives for a five-day stay.
6. Colombia's former Minister of Labor Belisario Betancur, former Minister of the Interior Jorge E. Gutierrez Anzola, and Parliamentarian German Fernandez Jarmillo arrive for an eight-day visit.
7. Victor M. Longstreet, Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Navy, arrives for a two-day visit.
8. An agreement to supply 5,000 metric tons (5,500 short tons) of Taiwan urea fertilizer to Vietnam is signed in Taipei.
A Sino-Chilean trade agreement is signed in Santiago.
Austrian Trade Commissioner Lothur Puxkandel arrives to negotiate trade arrangements.
11. Joseph Ku, new Chinese ambassador to Ecuador, leaves for Quito.
12. The 2,711-ton freighter Chung Kai of the China Merchants Steam Navigation Company sinks off Kagoshima on its way to Korea.
West German parliamentarians Ernest Achenbach and Klaus Freiherr von Muhlen arrive for a nine-day visit.
13. Liu Chieh, Chinese ambassador to the United Nations, returns for home consultations.
Lieutenant General Nguyen Ngoc Le of South Vietnam arrives for a five-day visit.
14. An agreement is signed in Taipei for sale of 75,000 metric tons (82,500 short tons) of Taiwan rice to Japan.
15. The American Trade Fair opens in Taipei.