TAIWAN : Amid Mourning, Back to Business

Taiwan’s industrial juggernaut, derailed a week ago by a killer earthquake, started putting itself back on track as survivors began the seven-week process of mourning more than 2,000 dead. Powerful aftershocks continued to roil the jumbled landscape, but search-and-rescue work was winding down as hope of finding survivors faded. The stock market reopened for the first time with a widely expected loss, and production was ramping up quickly in the lucrative microchip industry. The day also was touched by deep sadness. It is tradition in Taiwan to begin mourning in earnest on the seventh day after death.