Governor Mitt Romney has been receiving quite a lot of visitors lately, and they aren't exactly from Worcester. In the last 2 1/2 years, the governor has held nearly three-dozen meetings with high-ranking dignitaries from every continent but Antarctica.

Yesterday morning, Ying-Jeou Ma, the mayor of Taipei, dropped by the State House for a half-hour private tête-à-tête with Governor Mitt Romney, followed by a press briefing (shown here) attended by an entourage of aides and Taiwanese press.