Taiwan s new defense chief assumes post
02/23/2021 07:13 PM
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From left: Yen De-fa, Minister without Portfolio Lo Ping-cheng, newly appointed Minister of National Defense Chiu Kuo-cheng. Photo courtesy of Military News Agency
Taipei, Feb. 23 (CNA) Former intelligence chief Chiu Kuo-cheng (邱國正) officially became Taiwan s Minister of National Defense on Tuesday in a ceremony held behind closed doors.
Chiu was part of the cabinet reshuffle announced by the Presidential Office on Feb. 19, involving three key security positions.
According to the Military News Agency (MNA), the handover ceremony was presided over by Minister without Portfolio Lo Ping-cheng (羅秉成), who represented Premier Su Tseng-chang (蘇貞昌).
Minister without portfolio named new Cabinet spokesman
02/18/2021 01:53 PM
Taiwan’s new Cabinet spokesperson Lo Ping-cheng. CNA file photo
Taipei, Feb. 18 (CNA) The Executive Yuan on Thursday named Minister without Portfolio Lo Ping-cheng (羅秉成) as the new Cabinet spokesman, three months after his predecessor resigned over a false comment he made that an award-winning restaurant was selling beef tainted with the animal feed additive ractopamine.
Lo will continue to serve concurrently as minister without portfolio in charge of overseeing interior affairs, judicial, national defense, diplomacy and social security issues, a post in which he has served since September 2017, according to the Executive Yuan.