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George Liu
George Liu Kuan-ping (; born 20 June 1935) is a Taiwanese–American former politician and diplomat. He was a member of Taiwan's Legislative Yuan from 2005 to 2007, and served as Taiwan's representative to Switzerland from 2007 to 2008. After his resignation from the latter position, Liu was found to have held United States citizenship during his political career in Taiwan. Early life and education Liu was raised in Tainan. His father was a physician. Liu moved to the United States and earned a master's degree in international administration from the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public and International Affairs. Political and diplomatic career Liu served on the standing committee of the Formosan Association for Public Affairs. In the 2004 Taiwanese legislative election, Liu was elected to represent overseas Chinese on behalf of the Taiwan Solidarity Union. While serving on the Legislative Yuan, Liu remained affiliated with FAPA. As a sitting legislator, Liu ad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taipei Economic And Cultural Representative Office
The Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office (TECRO), also known as Taipei Economic and Cultural Office (TECO), Taipei Representative Office (TRO) or Taipei Mission, is an alternative diplomatic institution serving as a ''de facto'' embassy or a consulate of the Republic of China (ROC, commonly referred to as Taiwan) to exercise the foreign affairs and consular services in specific countries which have established formal diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China (PRC, commonly referred to as China). The PRC denies the legitimacy of the ROC as a sovereign state and claims the ROC-controlled territories as an integral part of its territory. An exclusive mandate, namely One-China policy, requires that any country wishing to establish a diplomatic relationship with the PRC must first sever any formal relationship with the ROC. According to ''The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs'', "non-recognition of the Taiwanese government is a prerequisite for conducting ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Huang
David Huang Shih-cho (; born 14 August 1966) is a Taiwanese politician and scholar of public administration. He was the founding member of the Taiwan Solidarity Union, in which his father served as the chairman, but later left to join the Democratic Progressive Party. Early life and education David Huang was born to parents Huang Chu-wen and Huang Shu-ying. He earned a bachelor's degree in political science from Chinese Culture University before receiving a master's and doctoral degree from National Chengchi University and the University of Southern California, receptively. He subsequently taught at Tamkang University and the Kainan School of Management, then worked for the Examination Yuan. Huang also ran a consultancy firm. Political career Huang was a founding member of the Taiwan Solidarity Union, and his father the party's first chairman. David Huang was a member of the Examination Yuan until launching a legislative campaign representing Taipei in 2004. Despite Democrati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Members Of The 6th Legislative Yuan
Member may refer to: * Military jury, referred to as "Members" in military jargon * Element (mathematics), an object that belongs to a mathematical set * In object-oriented programming, a member of a class ** Field (computer science), entries in a database ** Member variable, a variable that is associated with a specific object * Limb (anatomy), an appendage of the human or animal body ** Euphemism for penis * Structural component of a truss, connected by nodes * User (computing), a person making use of a computing service, especially on the Internet * Member (geology), a component of a geological formation * Member of parliament * The Members, a British punk rock band * Meronymy, a semantic relationship in linguistics * Church membership, belonging to a local Christian congregation, a Christian denomination and the universal Church * Member, a participant in a club or learned society A learned society ( ; also scholarly, intellectual, or academic society) is an organizati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1935 Births
Events January * January 7 – Italian premier Benito Mussolini and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval conclude Franco-Italian Agreement of 1935, an agreement, in which each power agrees not to oppose the other's Colonial empire, colonial claims. * January 12 – Amelia Earhart becomes the first person to successfully complete a solo flight from Hawaii to California, a distance of . * January 13 – A plebiscite in the Saar (League of Nations), Territory of the Saar Basin shows that 90.3% of those voting wish to join Germany. * January 24 – The first canned beer is sold in Richmond, Virginia, United States, by Gottfried Krueger Brewing Company. February * February 6 – Parker Brothers begins selling the board game Monopoly (game), Monopoly in the United States. * February 13 – Richard Hauptmann is convicted and sentenced to death for the kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh Jr. in the United States. * February 15 – The discovery and clinical developme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ma Ying-jeou
Ma Ying-jeou ( zh, t=馬英九; pinyin: ''Mǎ Yīngjiǔ''; ; born 13 July 1950) is a Taiwanese politician, lawyer, and legal scholar who served as the sixth president of the Republic of China from 2008 to 2016. A member of the Kuomintang (KMT), he was previously the mayor of Taipei from 1998 to 2006 and the chairman of the Kuomintang for two terms (2005–2007; 2009–2014). Ma was born in British Hong Kong to a prominent ''waishengren'' family that moved to Taiwan in 1952. After graduating from National Taiwan University, Ma joined the Republic of China Marine Corps and attained the rank of lieutenant. He then studied law in the United States, where he earned a master's degree from New York University in 1976 and his doctorate from Harvard University in 1981. After practicing law in the United States, Ma became a bureau director and English translator for President Chiang Ching-kuo. From 1988 to 1996, he held office first as chair of the Research, Development and Evaluatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Control Yuan
The Control Yuan is the supervisory and auditory branch of the government of the Republic of China, both during its time in mainland China and Taiwan. Designed as a hybrid of auditor and ombudsman by Taiwanese law, the Control Yuan holds the following powers:See Additional Articles of the Constitution art. 7, available at * ''Impeachment'': The Control Yuan has the power to impeach government officials. Successfully impeached cases then go to the Disciplinary Court of the Judicial Yuan for adjudication. Impeachment of the President and the Vice President of the Republic follows a different procedure and does not go through the Control Yuan. * ''Censure'': The Control Yuan also has the power to censure a government official. The censure is sent to the official's superior officer. * ''Audit'': The Executive Yuan ( cabinet) presents the annual budget to the Control Yuan each year for audit. *''Corrective Measures'': The Control Yuan, after investigating the work and faciliti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Executive Yuan
The Executive Yuan () is the executive (government), executive branch of the government of the Republic of China (Taiwan). Under the Additional Articles of the Constitution of the Republic of China, amended constitution, the head of the Executive Yuan is the Premier of the Republic of China, Premier who is positioned as the head of government and has the power to appoint members to serve in the cabinet, while the president of the Republic of China, ROC President is the head of state under the semi-presidential system, who can appoint the Premier and nominate the members of the cabinet. The Premier may be removed by a vote of no-confidence by a majority of the Legislative Yuan, after which the President may either remove the Premier or dissolve the Legislative Yuan and initiate a new election for legislators. Organization and structure The Executive Yuan is headed by the Premier of the Republic of China, Premier (or President of the Executive Yuan) and includes its Vice Premi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chen Shui-bian
Chen Shui-bian ( zh, t=陳水扁; born 12 October 1950) is a Taiwanese former politician and lawyer who served as the fifth president of the Republic of China (Taiwan) from 2000 to 2008. Chen was the first president from the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), ending the Kuomintang's (KMT) 55 years of continuous rule in Taiwan. He is sometimes referred to by the nickname A-Bian (). A lawyer, Chen entered politics in 1980 during the Kaohsiung Incident as a member of the Tangwai movement and was elected to the Taipei City Council in 1981. In 1985, as the editor of the weekly pro-democracy magazine ''Neo-Formosa'', he was jailed for libel following publication of an article critical of Elmer Fung, a college philosophy professor who was later elected a New Party legislator. After being released, Chen helped found the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) in 1986 and was elected a member of the Legislative Yuan in 1989, and Mayor of Taipei in 1994. Chen won the 2000 Republic of China ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chen Shui-bian Corruption Charges
Chen Shui-bian, former President of the Republic of China, stepped down on May 20, 2008, the same day that Ma Ying-jeou took office as the new President of the Republic of China. About an hour after he left the Presidential Office Building, as a former President of the Republic of China and no longer enjoying presidential immunity, he was arrested and restricted from leaving the nation by Taiwanese prosecutors due to allegations of corruption and abuse of authority. Chen was accused of fraud in a case involving the handling of a special presidential fund used to pursue Taiwan's foreign diplomacy. However, the Special Investigation Division dropped money-laundering charges because of a lack of evidence. President Ma Ying-jeou moved to declassify documents that would aid in the investigation of the former president's use of special expenses. President Ma was then sued by Chen's lawyers on August 6, 2008, who called Ma's declassification of case-aiding documents "politically motivat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Federal Department Of Justice And Police
The Federal Department of Justice and Police (, , , ) is one of the seven Ministry (government department), departments of the Switzerland, Swiss federal government, and is equivalent to a ministry of justice in other countries. As of 2024, it is headed by Federal Council (Switzerland), Federal Councillor Beat Jans. Until 1979, the department was known as the Department of Justice and Police. Organisation The department is composed of the following offices and institutes: * General Secretariat (GS-FDJP) ** IT Service Centre (ISC-FDJP) ** Post and Telecommunications Surveillance Service (PTSS) * Federal Offices ** State Secretariat for Migration (SEM): Responsible for matters relating to foreign nationals and asylum seekers. ** Federal Office of Justice (FOI): Responsible for providing legal advice to the administration, preparing general legislation, supervising government registers and collaborating on international judicial assistance. ** Federal Office of Police (fedpol): ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ministry Of Foreign Affairs (Taiwan)
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA; ) is a Executive Yuan, cabinet-level ministry of Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), and is responsible for the ROC's diplomacy and foreign relations of Taiwan, foreign relations. It is headquartered in the capital Taipei. The incumbent minister is Lin Chia-lung, who took office in 2024 and is a member of the Democratic Progressive Party. Article 141 of the Constitution of the Republic of China, ROC Constitution provides: "The foreign policy of the Republic of China shall, in a spirit of independence and initiative and on the basis of the principles of equality and reciprocity, cultivate good neighborliness with other nations, and respect treaties and the Charter of the United Nations, Charter of the United Nations, in order to protect the rights and interests of overseas Chinese, overseas compatriots, promote international cooperation, advance international law, international justice and ensure world peace." In accordance ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Relinquishment Of United States Nationality
Under United States federal law, a United States nationality law, U.S. citizen or national may voluntarily and intentionally give up that status and become an alien (law), alien with respect to the United States. Relinquishment is distinct from denaturalization, which in U.S. law refers solely to cancellation of illegally procured naturalization. explicitly lists all seven potentially expatriating acts by which a U.S. citizen can relinquish that citizenship. ''Renunciation of United States citizenship'' is a term of art, legal term encompassing two of those acts: swearing an oath of renunciation at List of diplomatic missions of the United States, a U.S. embassy or consulate in foreign territory or, during a state of war, at a United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services office in U.S. territory. The other five acts are: naturalization in a foreign country; taking an oath of allegiance to a foreign country; serving in a foreign mil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
