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Unearthing Taiwan's forgotten WW2 prisoner camps Surrounded by rolling hills, Jinguashi is a picturesque former mining town on Taiwan's north-eastern coast. But beneath the lush foliage and distant ocean views lies a dark and forgotten chapter in history. Jinguashi was the location of Kinkaseki camp, one of more than a dozen prisoner of war (POW) camps, where around 4,500 Allied soldiers were held captive during World War Two. Taiwan was a Japanese colony at the time and the soldiers - who were captured by the Japanese military between 1942 and 1945 - were forced to work in copper mines und...

Protest against a shake up of the national s.n.c.f. rail monopoly on the status from energy to garbage collection joining the walkouts this of course in opposition to french president in mount calls the labor market reform agenda. rail workers are especially angry with the government it plans to do away with train drivers right to retire at fifty two the administration also wants to make cuts to their current holiday entitlement of fifty days per year those kind of privileges cost a lot of money and state owned railway s.n.c.f. has accumulated a debt burden of forty five billion euros the disr...