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...volunteer working at the site. In the past week, 15,000 people have been carried to safety by the 38,000 Taiwanese soldiers deployed to the typhoon-struck area. But many are complaining that Taipei didn't act fast enough. "In the beginning, they were too slow," says World Vision Cishan Director Caleb Yu. "But in the past few days, they've gone full speed." Yin, the farmer who waited three days before his rescue, agrees. "They took too long and probably lost lives...
...susceptibility to big storms, and many at the national level have said that Taipei's well-funded emergency response teams should have been able to get to the stranded citizens sooner. Even lawmakers from his own Kuomintang party have criticized Ma this week for the government's slow response to Morakot, particularly as the public has voiced the need for more effective disaster relief after major typhoons and earthquakes in recent years. "We should have a disaster relief agency that coordinates our resources," said Chiu Yi, a prominent lawmaker, Monday. "We've been talking about this for the past...
...Current estimates figure that Morakot caused $910 million in losses to agriculture and infrastructure, and the cost for reconstruction is estimated at $3.6 billion, about the same as the 1999 earthquake. The foreign ministry is asking other countries for help, another issue it has been criticized for being slow on. In particular, it's asking for prefabricated houses and helicopters that can lift trucks and excavators so that roads can be reopened. China, which Taiwan has grown closer to under the Ma administration, has also offered to provide 1000 prefabricated homes, relief personnel and over $14 million for relief efforts...
...Moec warns that broader European recovery will be a sluggish affair. Countries like the U.K., Spain, and Ireland - which each suffer from some combination of excessive household debt and structural over-reliance on real estate and financial industries - risk taking far longer to remedy their economic ailments, which would slow a regional rebound. Ditto Italy, whose consistent under-performance is rooted in competitive weaknesses that couldn't be cured even during good times. (Read: "In Hard Times, Olympic Plans Go On a Budget...
...family plan. Under this scenario, employees would have the freedom to choose their own plan, as opposed to being herded into a group plan selected by their employer. All of this is to encourage the purchase of fairly austere health insurance, which experts predict will help slow the increase in overall health-care spending. (Read TIME's exclusive interview with President Obama on health-care reform...