Dear All, Through the night, I heard this news item on the BBC World Service. I didn't believe what I was hearing so I looked up the item and found it at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/2229208.stm
As you can see, either the Mayor of Tainan has decided that his city will revert to old measures such as pounds for trade, or the BBC reporter, Damian Grammaticas, has translated from kilogram to pound for his own purposes. I suspect the latter. Dear Joe, Do you know when Taiwan and Korea adopted metric measures. I seem to recall that these two nations now have the most severe laws about using old measures. This is one of the reasons that I don't think that the Mayor of Tainan would be training his citizens to use pounds. Cheers, Pat Naughtin
