AmCham names new president to succeed Maisano
The American Chamber of Commerce announced that Richard Vuylsteke, former executive director of AmCham Taipei, had been appointed its new president from today. He will succeed Jack Maisano, who had served as president since February 2005. The new president had been executive director of AmCham Taipei, Taiwan's largest and most active foreign business organisation, since August 1999. He also taught for four years at the US Foreign Service Institute school, and was senior editor of the Free China Review, now named the Taiwan Review, for 12 years and wrote extensively for publications based in the United States, Taiwan and Hong Kong.
Arts hub authority attacked
Civic Party legislator Alan Leong Kah-kit criticised the government on the RTHK radio programme Letter to Hong Kong for centralising power to control the proposed authority responsible for the West Kowloon Cultural District development. He said the public should be better engaged in the process, and saw no reason why lawmakers could not be allowed to elect their representative to sit on the authority.
Macau PLA change at top
Major General Wang Yuren will succeed Major General Liu Lianhua as the People's Liberation Army Macau garrison commander. Major General Liu will be transferred from the garrison and take up new post.
