Taiwan tables Spratly plan

From: Airports International | Date: March 1, 1996 | Copyright information

A special committee under Taiwan's Ministry of the Interior has voted to delay a plan to build an airport on Taiping Island, the largest in the Spratly group, writes John Westbrook.

A spokesman for the committee said that, in view of the large number of sensitive issues concerned with the Sprat...

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