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President Lai receives credentials from new Haiti Ambassador Roudy Stanley Penn
TAIWAN, September 9 - Details 2025-09-03 President Lai meets delegation led by Saint Lucia Deputy Prime Minister Ernest Hilaire On the afternoon of September 3, President Lai Ching-te met with a delegation led by Saint Lucia Deputy Prime Minister...
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President Lai meets delegation from University of Tokyo cross-strait relations research group
TAIWAN, September 2 - Details 2025-09-02 President Lai meets delegation led by Tuvalu Speaker of Parliament Iakoba Taeia Italeli On the afternoon of September 2, President Lai Ching-te met with a delegation led by Speaker of the Parliament of...
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President Lai meets delegation from Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China
TAIWAN, August 27 - Details 2025-08-28 President Lai attends opening ceremony of 53rd Asian-Pacific Parliamentarians’ Union General Assembly On the morning of August 28, President Lai Ching-te attended the opening ceremony of the 53rd...
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President Lai receives credentials from new Paraguay Ambassador Darío Filártiga Ruiz Díaz
TAIWAN, September 12 - Details 2025-09-12 President Lai receives credentials from new Belize Ambassador Katherine Vanessa Meighan On the afternoon of September 12, President Lai Ching-te received the credentials of new Ambassador Extraordinary and...
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President Lai receives credentials from new Belize Ambassador Katherine Vanessa Meighan
TAIWAN, September 12 - Details 2025-09-12 President Lai receives credentials from new Paraguay Ambassador Darío Filártiga Ruiz Díaz On the morning of September 12, President Lai Ching-te received the credentials of new Ambassador Extraordinary and...
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Bezos Earth Fund Invests $37.5M USD to Accelerate Pacific-Led Ocean Protection
WASHINGTON, Sept. 16, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- A groundbreaking effort led by Pacific Island leaders to safeguard the ocean took a major step forward today, with the Bezos Earth Fund announcing $37.5 million USD in grants to support marine...
President Lai meets 2025 Yushan Forum participants
TAIWAN, March 18 - Details 2025-03-18 President Lai meets Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs On the afternoon of March 18, President Lai Ching-te met with a delegation led by Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs. In remarks, President Lai said that Taiwan and...
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President Lai meets New Zealand delegation from All-Party Parliamentary Group on Taiwan
TAIWAN, April 17 - Details 2025-04-15 President Lai meets delegation led by Tuvalu Deputy Prime Minister Panapasi Nelesone On the afternoon of April 15, President Lai Ching-te met with a delegation led by Tuvalu Deputy Prime Minister and Minister...
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President Lai delivers remarks on US tariff policy response
TAIWAN, April 6 - Details 2025-03-13 President Lai holds press conference following high-level national security meeting On the afternoon of March 13, President Lai Ching-te convened a high-level national security meeting, following which he held...
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President Lai pens Bloomberg News article on Taiwan’s response to US reciprocal tariffs
TAIWAN, April 9 - Details 2025-04-08 President Lai receives credentials from new Tuvalu Ambassador Lily Tangisia Faavae On the morning of April 8, President Lai Ching-te received the credentials of new Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary...
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President Lai presides over fourth meeting of Whole-of-Society Defense Resilience Committee
TAIWAN, June 26 - Details 2025-03-18 President Lai meets Commander-in-Chief of US Veterans of Foreign Wars Alfred Lipphardt On the morning of March 18, President Lai Ching-te met with a delegation led by Alfred Lipphardt, commander-in-chief of the...
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President Lai addresses opening of 2025 Yushan Forum
TAIWAN, March 17 - Details 2025-03-13 President Lai attends Ministry of Foreign Affairs 2025 Spring Banquet On the evening of March 13, President Lai Ching-te attended the Ministry of Foreign Affairs 2025 Spring Banquet for foreign ambassadors and...
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President Lai meets Japan-ROC Diet Members’ Consultative Council Chairman Furuya Keiji
TAIWAN, March 17 - Details 2025-03-17 President Lai addresses opening of 2025 Yushan Forum On the morning of March 17, President Lai Ching-te attended the opening of the 2025 Yushan Forum, the theme of which was “New Southbound Policy+: Taiwan,...
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President Lai holds press conference following high-level national security meeting
TAIWAN, February 14 - Details 2025-01-01 President Lai delivers 2025 New Year’s Address On the morning of January 1, President Lai Ching-te delivered his 2025 New Year’s Address, titled “Bolstering National Strength through Democracy to Enter a...
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President Lai meets Commander-in-Chief of US Veterans of Foreign Wars Alfred Lipphardt
TAIWAN, March 18 - Details 2025-02-17 President Lai meets former United States Deputy National Security Advisor Matthew Pottinger On the morning of February 17, President Lai Ching-te met with a delegation led by former United States Deputy...
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President Lai meets US delegation led by Senator Pete Ricketts
TAIWAN, April 18 - Details 2025-04-17 President Lai meets New Zealand delegation from All-Party Parliamentary Group on Taiwan On the morning of April 17, President Lai Ching-te met with a delegation from New Zealand’s All-Party Parliamentary Group...
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President Lai pays respects to Pope Francis
TAIWAN, April 23 - Details 2025-04-23 President Lai meets US CNAS NextGen fellows On the morning of April 23, President Lai Ching-te met with fellows from the Shawn Brimley Next Generation National Security Leaders Program (NextGen) run by the...
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President Lai meets US CNAS NextGen fellows
TAIWAN, April 23 - Details 2025-04-23 President Lai pays respects to Pope Francis On the morning of April 23, President Lai Ching-te visited the Taipei Archdiocesan Curia to pay respects in a memorial ceremony for His Holiness Pope Francis. As...
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Media reports more African nations face US visa prohibition
(MENAFN) The United States intends to widen its controversial travel restrictions to citizens from 36 additional countries, with 25 of them located in Africa, according to an internal State Department memo reported by The Washington Post over the...
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President Lai delivers remarks at International Holocaust Remembrance Day event
TAIWAN, April 23 - Details 2025-04-23 President Lai pays respects to Pope Francis On the morning of April 23, President Lai Ching-te visited the Taipei Archdiocesan Curia to pay respects in a memorial ceremony for His Holiness Pope Francis. As...
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