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Ma welcomes high-ranking American visitors
US Deputy Secretary of Energy Daniel Poneman will be in Taipei from today until Wednesday, the highest-ranking US government official to visit Taiwan in more than a decade. Poneman will meet President Ma Ying-jeou (pictured) and local business leaders, according to the American Institute in Taiwan, the de facto US embassy on the island. Several senior US officials visited Taiwan this year, including Sandra Henriquez, assistant secretary at the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and Assistant Secretary of commerce Suresh Kumar.
US special envoy talks to Beijing on Myanmar
Derek Mitchell, the US special envoy on Myanmar, will visit Beijing today and tomorrow after holding meetings last week in Japan and South Korea. The United States and China will discuss developments in Myanmar, seen as strategically important to both Washington and Beijing, after US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's landmark visit to the longtime Beijing ally.
Shy Chelsea takes centre stage on television
Chelsea Clinton, the only child of America's most famous political couple, will today abandon her once-cherished privacy, and make her debut with a high-profile role on national television. At 31, Clinton (pictured) has largely avoided the glare of public scrutiny that her parents, former president Bill Clinton and current Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, not only endure, but court. That will change when she pops up on NBC as a special correspondent on the show Rock Centre with Brian Williams and on the channel's nightly news.