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Japan experts find flaws in Taiwan’s nuclear safety

Taipei Times

Geologist Yoshinobu Tsuji explains a diagram of tectonic plate interaction in the Taiwan region at a forum about nuclear power plant safety in Taipei yesterday.
Photo: Fang Pin-chao, Taipei Times

Japanese geologist Yoshinobu Tsuji and nuclear industry consultant Satoshi Sato yesterday at a forum in Taipei spoke about potential safety problems at Taiwan’s nuclear power plants, potential pitfalls related to the emergency response mechanism and why extending the service life of nuclear power plants is unsafe.

Vocal rally over China’s contentious flight routes

Lai Chung-chiang 賴中強

Beijing has unilaterally decided to draw up four new air routes, including the M503 route hugging the median line of the Taiwan Strait. However, the President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) administration was clueless about how to react.

Civil Aeronautics Administration Director-General Lin Tyh-ming (林志明) carelessly said: “Without consensus, the new flight routes are probably not going to be put to use.”

Left-wing parties light the third way

Taipei Times Editorial

With a third political force preparing to enter the nation’s political arena in next year’s legislative elections, there is hope that the political newcomers will gradually drive the main political parties to compete on a left-right spectrum, and not just the unification-versus-independence fault line that has long divided the nation’s politics.

Memoir of Taiwan’s turning point

Lee Hsiao-feng 李筱峰

Right after the end of World War II, Chiang Kai-shek (蔣介石) asked Tsai Pei-huo (蔡培火), an intellectual and political activist during the Japanese colonial era, whether there were any talented people in Taiwan. Tsai responded that there were two very important Taiwanese that Chiang must know about. One was Lin Hsien-tang (林獻堂), and the other Chen Hsin (陳炘). Lin was the iconic leader of Taiwanese society, and Chen Hsin was a financial expert.

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