Taipei: A research team at Taiwan

The bus rapid transit (BRT) system, which had received a shot in the arm from an internationally renowned transport expert not very long ago, has got yet another encouragement in the form of an award from a Taiwan-based organisation.

Eighteen seamen are missing and another was killed by a shark after their fishing boat was swamped by high waves off Taiwan on Monday, the island's coast guard said.

The coast guard had rescued another nine crew members from the 993-tonne boat, agency spokesman Hsieh Ching-ching said.

A slow-moving typhoon that hit Taiwan over the weekend, dumping up to 1,400 mm (55 inches) of rain in some areas, killed 12 people and left 10 missing in a tunnel collapse, mudslides and raging rivers

Four people were killed and seven reported missing on Monday after Typhoon Sinlaku brought winds of up to 160 kph (100 mph) to Taiwan, causing a section of bridge to collapse and a fatal mudslide.

Seventeen people were injured around the island as the typhoon dumped as much as 1,400 mm of rain in some mountainous areas of the north. Winds and rain tapered off by early Monday.
Part of a bridge in Taichung county of central Taiwan collapsed, killing at least one person in a vehicle that plunged from the span into fast-moving waters below.

treating drinking tap water with chlorine makes it bacteria-free. But its by-products may increase the risk of abnormalities among newborns, says a recent study. Researchers studied data on 400,000 infants in Taiwan and by products of chlorine in the water separately from 2001-03. Using these two sets of data, the researchers assessed exposure in mothers who were expecting. Of the 400,000

BEIJING: At least three dozen villages and towns in southwest China remained cut off from the outside world Thursday as tens of thousands of soldiers and emergency workers struggled against impassable roads and mountains of concrete and brick to reach the 40,000 people that officials say are still buried in the rubble or missing after a massive earthquake Monday.