More confrontation over Taiwan’s high speed line

WITH civil engineering work on Taiwan High Speed Rail Corp’s 346 km line between Taipei and Kaohsiung now 30% complete (p345), the project is unlikely to be abandoned. But serious delay is almost certain to follow a furious legal row that has erupted between the corporation and the government.

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