Via to donate $100M to WTC?

September 17, 2001 10:55 AM

Via to donate $100M to WTC? Um, seems like it was a bad typo. Taipei Times' article now reads "$1M". Seemed too good to be true.
posted by milnak (5 comments total)

They don't spend much cash on their crappy drivers, that's for sure.
posted by BarneyFifesBullet at 11:36 AM on September 17, 2001

I think that may originally have been one hundred million Taiwanese dollars, rather than one hundred million US dollars. I think the exchange rate is about a hundred to one.
posted by Steven Den Beste at 12:22 PM on September 17, 2001

This is another link that should have been made as a comment in a pre-existing thread.
posted by sylloge at 12:30 PM on September 17, 2001

Figures. It was way out of proportion to all the other companies. But the original story did state "US $100M."
posted by curiousg at 12:34 PM on September 17, 2001

They don't spend much cash on their crappy drivers, that's for sure.

For DAMN sure.
posted by rushmc at 5:01 PM on September 17, 2001