TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – Former Taiwan Visitors Association (TVA) Chair Yeh Chu-lan (葉菊蘭) will take over as chair of Taipei City’s iconic Grand Hotel, reports said Wednesday (Aug. 28).

The handover ceremony is scheduled for Friday (Aug. 30), per UDN. Yeh finished her second and final term as head of the TVA in July.

The 14-story, 500-room red hotel built in classical Chinese style is managed by the Taiwan Friendship Foundation under the Ministry of Transportation and Communications.

Yeh, 75, is the widow of democracy activist Nylon Cheng (鄭南榕), who self-immolated in 1989 as a protest against the lack of freedom of speech. She was later elected to the Legislative Yuan for the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), which was founded at the hotel in 1986, and served as minister of transportation.