May 16. The government announces establishment of diplomatic relations with the Kingdom of Laos.
Cecil Wallace Edgar Williams, Australian labor leader, arrives for a week's visit at the invitation of the government.
17. Laotian Premier Boun Oum and his goodwill mission leave with a pledge of moral support from the Chinese government.
18. Free China Relief Association appeals to the U. N. refugees organization to help Chinese fleeing the mainland and to stop Hongkong authorities from sending them back.
Bishop Verughese, the Rev. P. C. Zachariah and the Rev. T. C. George, leaders of the St. Thomas Gospel Church of India, arrive for a three-day visit.
Government and public welcome the nomination of Admiral Alan Goodrich Kirk as U. S. Ambassador to China.
19. Dr. Mei Yi-chi, president of National Tsinghua University and former minister of education, dies of cancer at the age of 73.
Free China Relief Association sends two representatives to Hongkong to screen Chinese refugee applications for repatriation to Taiwan.
Thirteen delegates from 11 nations and areas who attended the emergency session of the Asian Peoples' Anti-Communist League in Seoul arrive for a three-day visit. Three were from the Philippines and one each from Cameroun, the Malagasy Republic, the Congo (Leopoldville), Laos, Italy, Jordan, North Borneo, Macao, Hongkong and the Ryukyus.
A three-man military mission headed by General Lo Lieh, chairman of the Combined War Planning Committee of the Ministry of National Defense, leaves for Jordan to participate in that country's 11th national day May 25.
20. China and Dahomey reach agreement on agricultural technical cooperation.
21. Vice President and Premier Chen Cheng says the government will accept Chinese refugees reaching Hongkong and wishing to come to Taiwan.
The Industrial Development and Investment Center says no investment application has been withdrawn since the government proclaimed the collection of defense surtaxes on April 30.
23. E. Dadet, Congolese (Brazzaville) Ambassador to the United Nations and the United States, and Mrs. Dadet arrive for a five-day visit.
K. Y. Yin, chairman of the Foreign Exchange and Trade Control Commission and concurrently board chairman of the Bank of Taiwan, and Mrs. Yin leave for Tokyo for a two-week visit at the invitation of the Japanese government.
24. Dr. Wei Yu-sun, spokesman for the Foreign Ministry, lauds Canadian and U. S. decision to admit Chinese refugees from Hongkong as demonstrations of "great human love" for Chinese suffering under Communist tyranny.
Madame Chiang Kai-shek says the government's decision to accept refugees is based on humanitarian considerations rather than politics.
Badnoit Blindzi, acting chief of the Cameroun mission to the United Nations, arrives for a week's visit.
25. The Sino-Jordanian cultural pact comes into force with the exchange of ratifications.
China and the United States reach agreement on purchases of more U. S. agricultural commodities.
A group of 18 American and European correspondents arrives for a three-day visit.
26. A four-man Royal Thai Air Force goodwill mission headed by Air Vice Marshal Krasae Indaratna, vice chief of staff, arrives for a four-day visit.
27. Annie Fang, Helen Liu and Roxsana Chiang are selected as Misses China 1962 to go to Long Beach, Miami and London beauty contests.
28. A five-member Libyan military mission headed by Defense Minister Yunis Adbul Nobi Bilkhair and Chief of General Staff Brig. Gen. Nuri Sadig arrives for a 10-day visit.
Farhad Massoudi, chief editorial writer of the English-language Teheran Daily News, arrives for a nine-day visit.
29. Dr. T. F. Tsiang, China's chief delegate to the United Nations, appeals to U. N. members to help Chinese refugees in Hongkong.
P. Y. Hsu, governor of the Central Bank of China, says that the monetary market's reaction to the imposition of special defense assessments is generally satisfactory.
30. Dr. Sangad Plengvanij, under secretary of state for the Ministry of Public Health of Thailand, arrives for a week's visit.
President Chiang Kai-shek cables congratulations to President Charles Robert Swart of the Union of South Africa on the occasion of its May 31 national day.
31. China establishes diplomatic relations with the Republic of Central Africa.
A 48-member goodwill mission from Laos arrives for a three-day sightseeing trip. The group is composed of legislators, government officials, bankers, aviation officials and 17 folk dancers.
June 1. The Legislative Yuan passes the Statute on Retirement of Teachers and School Employees.
A 22-member overseas Chinese group from British Trinidad arrives for a week's visit.
2. Madame Chiang Kai-shek urges Chinese women to give generously for relief of refugees in Hongkong.
3. Australian Minister of External Affairs Sir Garfield Barwick arrives with Lady Barwick for a three-day visit. They are received by President and Madame Chiang Kai-shek.
4. Australian MP Reginald C. Mattiske and Mrs. Mattiske arrive for a 10-day visit.
President and Madame Chiang Kai-shek honor Libyan Defense Minister Yunis Adbul Nobi Bilkhair and his party at a tea party.
5. The Legislative Yuan ratifies the Sino-Malagasy amity pact signed in Taipei April 4.
6. The public observes Dragon Boat Festival Day.
R. H. Wittorn, Australian member of parliament, arrives for a 10-day visit.
7. The United Nations World Health Organization, Western Pacific Office, ends a month-long training class for Asian specialists in insects at Chaochow, south Taiwan.
8. The Moral Rearmament Asian Task Force of 69 persons from 13 nations arrives to present an anti-Communist play.
The Executive Yuan promulgates regulations on Chinese investment abroad.
9. Five technicians of the Taiwan Sugar Corporation leave for Congo. (Leopoldville) to help operate the Central African Sugar Plant in Kivu province.
The Republic of China and the United States agree on China's purchase of an additional US$6.54 million American farm surplus, bringing the total for this year to US$15.55 million.
10. Twenty-five Ryukyuans arrive for two-week observation of pineapple and sugar cane cultivation.
11. Madame Chiang Kai-shek launches a fundraising campaign for the relief of Chinese refugees in Hongkong and Macao.
The Taiwan Sugar Corporation completes two-year training of Vietnamese sugar technicians.
The Provincial Highway Bureau conducts a trial of its first air-conditioned tourist bus. Governor Chow Chih-jou is among the guests.
12. Patrick Pichi Sun, new spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, expresses concern over the formation of a Laotian coalition government.
President Chiang Kai-shek cables a message of felicitations to President Macapagal of the Philippines on the occasion of the newly changed Philippine national day.
13. A four-member goodwill mission from Uganda arrives for a nine-day visit.
Joint Commission on Rural Reconstruction says China has been accepted as a member of the International Seed Testing Association.
A group of 27 Chinese refugees arrives from Laos after 13 years of hardship.
Vice President and Premier Chen Cheng receives 20 representatives of the Asian team of the Moral Rearmament Movement. They had given performances of the anti-Communist play The Tiger in the United States, Latin America, the Middle East and Vietnam.
14. Taiwan Garrison Command begins a 15-day all-island exercise to test the efficiency of civil defense and emergency dispersion.
15. Hsueh Yu-chi, China's deputy permanent representative to the United Nations, says at the Security Council that any results of the reported border negotiations between Pakistan and the Peiping regime will not be binding on China.
Dr. A. R. Roces, education minister of the Philippines, arrives for a four-day visit.