2008 in the Republic of China
Events in the year 2008 in the Republic of China (Taiwan).
Incumbents
Events
March
July
October
November
Deaths
- January 14 โ Wu Jin, 74, Taiwanese Minister for Education (1996โ1998), cancer.[7]
- April 29 โ Bo Yang, 88, Taiwanese writer.[8]
- May 10 โ Liao Feng-Teh, 57, Taiwanese incoming interior minister, heart attack.[9]
- June 14 โ Chu Fu-Sung, 93, Taiwanese foreign minister (1979โ1987).[10]
- July 4 โ Wayne Pai, 55, Taiwanese businessman, founding chairman of Polaris Group, suicide.[11]
- July 12 โ Tsai Chao-yang, 67, Taiwanese politician, minister of Transportation and Communications, pneumonia.[12]
- August 9 โ Vivian Shun-wen Wu, 95, Taiwanese entrepreneur, chairwoman of Yulon Motor, heart failure.[13]
- August 20 โ Chao Yao-dong, 92, Taiwanese minister of economic affairs, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome.[14]
- October 15 โ Wang Yung-ching, 91, Taiwanese entrepreneur and billionaire, founder of Formosa Plastics.[15]
- October 28 โ Kung Te-cheng, 88, Chinese-born Taiwanese 77th generation descendant of Confucius, heart and respiratory failure.[16]
- December 11 โ Yeh Shih-tao, 83, Taiwanese writer, colorectal cancer.[17]
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