By Chung Li-hua and Jonathan Chin / Staff reporter, with staff writer and CNAPresident Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) has named National Security Council (NSC) Secretary-General Joseph Wu (吳釗燮) to be the Presidential Office secretary-general, the Presidential Office announced yesterday. Council adviser Yen Teh-fa (嚴德發), a retired army general and former chief of the General Staff from 2015 to last year, was named as Wu’s successor as head of the council. Wu and Yen are scheduled to assume their new posts next week, Presidential Office spokesman Alex Huang (黃重諺) said. Wu is replacing Lin Bih-jaw (林碧炤), who resigned on Oct. 20 last year to focus on his writing. He later served as Democratic Progressive Party secretary-general and the party’s representative to Washington, before being appointed to the council last year.

Source: Taipei Times May 18, 2017 16:18 UTC