Taipei, April 21 (CNA) Taiwan's President-elect Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) has been included in Time magazine's 2016 list of the 100 most influential people in the world, which was released Thursday.
Each year, Time presents its annual list of the world's 100 most influential people, from leaders and artists to pioneers, titans and icons.
This year, U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, Myanmar's democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi and Taiwan's Tsai Ing-wen are among the leaders listed.
"Tsai Ing-wen radiates a calm that sheathes a core of inner steel," said in the magazine's profile of her penned by the Apple Daily's founder, Jimmy Lai (黎智英). "As Taiwan's new President, she will need both qualities."
Others in the leaders' category include U.S. President Barack Obama, Chinese President Xi Jinping, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Francois Hollande and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Some of the other prominent figures that made the list are Pope Francis, Apple Inc. CEO Tim Cook, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan, and Chinese businessman Wang Jianlin.
Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama and Chinese fashion designer Guo Pei are also on the list.
(By Evelyn Kao)
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