— Taiwan-born New York Yankees star pitcher Wang Chien-ming made the “2007 Time 100” list, making him the third Taiwanese citizen to be selected by Time Magazine as one of the 100 most influential persons in the world after President Chen Shui-bian and Oscar-winning film director Ang Lee.

— Ang Lee won the coveted top honor in the 2007 Venice Film Festival with his steamy spy thriller “Lust, Caution.” It was the second time that the New York-based director captured the Golden Lion for best film, the Italian film festival’s top honor. In 2005, Lee won the award for “Brokeback Mountain,” a gay cowboy romance movie which also earned him a best director Oscar.

— The government launched a drive to replace the word “China” or “Chinese” in the titles of several state-owned enterprises with the word “Taiwan” to protect them from being mistaken as companies in China. For instance, Chunghua Post was renamed Taiwan Post; Chinese Petroleum Corp. was re-designated CPC Corp., Taiwan; and China Shipbuilding Corp. was renamed Taiwan Shipbuilding Corp. Meanwhile, the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall, which was dedicated to the late President Chiang Kai shek, has been renamed the Taiwan Democracy Memorial Hall. Chiang was branded by the DPP as a dictator and main perpetrator of the tragic 228 Incident of 1947.

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