TAIWAN CENTRAL BANK OFFICER DISPLAYS NEW BANKNOTE IN TAIPEI, 2000-12-11 (photo)

A Taiwan Central Bank officer displays new banknotes,T$500 and T$100, in Taipei, December 11, 2000. Central Bank will preserve images of two towering figures in Chinese history, Sun Yat-sen and Chiang Kai-shek, on two small banknotes but will drop Chiang's image from the T$1,000 and T$500 notes. Sun, who founded the Nationalist Republic of China in 1912, is on the $100 note pictured while Chiang is on the T$200 note. The T$500, T$1,000 and new T$2,000 notes will feature pictures with modern themes, technology, education and sport. (US$1 = T$33). KW/CC