Anchorwoman in coma

A Hong Kong-based Taiwanese television anchorwoman was in a coma after being injured in a British train derailment, a spokeswoman for her station said yesterday. Liu Hai-juo (劉海若), 34, was badly hurt and two of her friends were among seven people killed in the wreck north of London on Friday. The journalist, who also goes by the name Tanya Liu, has undergone four operations, two of them brain surgeries, said a spokeswoman for Phoenix Satellite Television. Liu is host of the Phoenix financial program Fortune This Week and has shared anchoring duties on two other shows, The Asia Journal and News on the Hour. Doctors told relatives that Liu's vital signs were good. The journalists who died were Wu Chia-ching (巫佳靜), 32, a reporter at Taiwan's TVBS cable news, and her former colleague at the station, Lin Chia-hsin (林家欣), 29, who was studying in London, a TVBS official said. Liu formerly worked with Taiwan's ERA News but left to join Phoenix in Hong Kong two years ago.