2 Sides Will Try to Settle Plant Dispute
From Times Wire Reports
Taiwan’s opposition-controlled legislature and the government agreed to resolve a dispute over a nuclear power plant project that has led to months of political gridlock.
Prime Minister Chang Chun-hsiung and Wang Jin-pyng, speaker of parliament, declared that they had agreed to settle the row through a possible referendum.
On Wednesday, parliament passed a resolution calling for the $5.4-billion project to be revived by the government, which had ordered it scrapped in October.
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