Taiwanese lawmakers exchanged punches and threw water at each other on Aug. 2 ahead of an expected vote that would authorize a referendum on whether to finish a fourth nuclear power plant on the densely populated island of 23 million people. Nuclear power has long been a contentious issue in Taiwan and became more so following the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan in 2011. (AP)
Taiwan lawmakers brawl
krishna · 08-03-2013, 07:00 PM · 1 person reading this discussion
real democracy in action
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