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3 unusual facts about Government Information Office


Government Information Office

The GIO was formally inaugurated in Nanjing on 2 May 1947, and the Department of International Publicity, originally under the Ministry of Information of the Kuomintang, was placed under it.

Public Television Service

Although first proposed in 1980, it was not until 1984 that the ROC's executive-level Government Information Office (GIO), which regulates mass media activities and serves as the government press bureau, attempted to create a separate entity that would produce public interest programs for broadcast on the ROC's then-existing three terrestrial networks.

Taiwan Indigenous Television

The operational guidelines of the Government Information Office(GIO) stipulated that the allocation, control, and use of broadcasting



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Linda Arrigo

The following year, 1979, she was deported and then blacklisted from Taiwan, by James Soong, then head of the Government Information Office, for her involvement in the Kaohsiung Incident, on Human Rights Day, December 10, 1979.

Propaganda in the Republic of China

Today, a democratic Taiwan has passed a law to abolish the Government Information Office and replace it with a National Communications Commission, styled after the FCC in the United States.