Taiwan to close highway to allow butterfly migration. Very cool, Taiwan.

"Taiwan is to close one lane of a major highway to protect more than a million butterflies, which cross the road on their seasonal migration.
The purple milkweed butterfly, which winters in the south of the island, passes over some 600m of motorway to reach its breeding ground in the north.

"Human beings need to coexist with the other species, even if they are tiny butterflies," Lee Thay-ming, of the National Freeway Bureau, told the AFP news agency. " LINK

7.1 Earthquake off Taiwan knocks out communications

Link to BBC article.
"Taiwan's largest telephone company, Chunghwa Telecom Co, said damage to an undersea cable had disrupted 98% of Taiwan's communications with Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and Hong Kong.
Some foreign exchange trading was reportedly affected.
"Trading of the Korean won has mostly halted due to the communication problem," a dealer at one South Korean domestic bank told Reuters news agency."

Hm. Wow, December 26th is a hell of a day for earthquakes. 6.7 in Bam, Iran in 2003, and the 9.3 Sumatra Andaman earthquake in 2004. The annoying invisible Scottish non-earthquake and a this 7.1 off Taiwan yesterday.