Taiwan’s Pork-barrel Politics and an Unwanted Road

Mar 26, 2007

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Taiwanese environmentalists are nearing the crunch in their

fight to stop a government plan to build an 85-kilometre expressway through

some of the island’s last pristine territory. It will cost a whopping NT$93

billion (US$2.81 billion), take seven and a half years to build and is fiercely

opposed by many of the people it is supposed to benefit.

But this is…

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