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Taiwan changes chief administrator

Xinhua, January 25, 2016 Adjust font size:

Taiwan leader Ma Ying-jeou on Monday appointed former deputy chief administrator Simon Chang as chief of the island's executive body, after approving the resignation of former head Mao Chi-kuo.

Chang, born in 1954, was head of the island's science and technology authority before he was named deputy chief administrator in 2014.

Mao decided to leave his post in the wake of the Kuomintang's electoral defeat on Jan. 16. Endi