American beef or Taiwanese pork — which is safer to stay on the menu? Last month, at least 160 piglets in Taiwan displayed flu symptoms, and some of them have now been confirmed as testing positive for the H1N1 flu.

I refer to your editorial in Friday's China Post on the recent spate of freeway accidents involving long-distance buses and heavy trucks.

As a long-term foreign resident in Taiwan, I would like to comment on your editorial in the October 2 issue on the subject of multiple charging by hospitals.

I was surprised to read your story titled “Security breach lets in blacklisted man,” which was published on September 9, 2009.

With interest, I read your Sept. 13 editorial about the 2009 Deaflympics in Taipei.

I am writing to thank the people of Taiwan and the Deaflympics organizers for an extraordinary experience with the 2009 Deaflympics.

I would like to comment on a recent analysis entitled “A three-way tie for loser seen in Dalai Lama visit” which appeared in your newspaper on Sept. 5.

What would we call the leaders of an international drug cartel that comes to this country with the openly stated intention of selling millions of our people a powerful, extremely addictive substance contained in “delivery systems,” as the cartel leaders call them, which will severly injure or kill a vast number of their users?

Has Typhoon Morakot left our shores at last? This typhoon brought unexpected and dreadful damage to our land and our people — heaping its fury largely on the mountain areas in the southeastern part of the island.

Typhoon Morakot hit Taiwan on August 7 and created havoc in the southern parts of Taiwan. With its record high rainfall (dumping 9-1/2 feet of rain over a three-day period, especially in the mountainous areas in the south), the typhoon caused significant landslides, damaged roadways and bridges, and flooded many townships.