Just how do you attack that unsightly bulge around your waist?

Coffee drinkers, beware. Seventy-five percent of local chains use lids that are potentially toxic, according to a survey released Saturday by Taipei City councilors.

Chinese yuan denominated deposits at the domestic banking units (DBUs) of banks operating in Taiwan at the end of March exceeded 18.5 billion yuan (US$2.98 billion), according to the central bank.

Daniel M. Tsai, chairman of Taiwan's Fubon Financial Holding Co. Ltd., will donate US$1.5 million to the University of Southern California (USC) to establish a medical research center there.

Amputees often experience “phantom limbs,” or the sensation that their missing limb is still present, but a Swedish study published Thursday showed that even non-amputees can experience the bizarre sensation.

The United Nations launched a plan Friday aimed at all but eradicating childhood deaths from diarrhea and pneumonia by 2025, in a bid to save the lives of some 2 million children every year.

There are roughly 230,000 people who have been diagnosed with bipolar disorder in Taiwan, according to doctors from Taipei Medical University (TMU).

The new strain of H7N9 avian flu will not disappear anytime soon, the deputy minister of the Department of Health (DOH) said yesterday.

China will offer Taiwan a virus strain that will aid the nation's development of an H7N9 influenza vaccine, Central Epidemic Command Center for H7N9 Influenza chief Chang Feng-yih (張峰義) announced yesterday.

President Ma Ying-jeou yesterday visited the Central Epidemic Command Center for H7N9 influenza, urging officials to remember the bitter lessons learned from the previous SARS outbreak and prevent the avian influenza from spreading to Taiwan.