Taiwan on Wednesday resumed diplomatic ties with St Lucia, DPA reported. While campaigning for his bid to join the 2008 presidential election, Premier Su Tseng-chang told a mass rally in Chungli City that St Lucia became Taiwan's ally on Wednesday. "I have good news to tell you: that is St Lucia will become our 25th diplomatic ally tonight," he said. St Lucia, a Caribbean island state with a population of 168,000, opened diplomatic ties with Taiwan in 1984 but cut them in order to recognize China in 1979.
