In Taiwan, the news was the final drill-through of the Mt. Snow Tunnel on the Taipei-Ilan Freeway after 12 years of work. The tunnel project, called the world's most demanding, was completed using the world's largest tunnel boring machines.
三峽蓄水鏡頭一轉，則是半世紀來在風雨飄搖中打拚有成的台灣人，依然揚眉吐氣：耗時十二年、堪稱全球最艱困的交通工程──北宜高速公路，在全世界最大的鑽掘機幫助下，終於打通雪山隧道。