To catch a cheating partner with help from private investigators, be careful to follow the law or the police will go after you instead of the cheater.

Arabica beans from Central America will be among the highlights of the Taipei Tea, Coffee and Wine Expo 2009 slated to open Nov. 20 at Taipei World Trade Center.

The body of a boy went missing on Nov. 15 on a family outing to National Chiao Tung University (NCTU) in Hsingchu City was yesterday discovered in a lake on the school's campus.

In yet another sign of increasing exchanges across the Taiwan Strait, Taiwan's tourism chief departed for China yesterday at the head of a large delegation to attend an international travel fair.

The Taipei-based Mexican Trade Services Documentation and Cultural Office held a charity event Tuesday to mark the opening of its new office in which 26 paintings donated by Mexican children were displayed to raise money for Taiwanese children affected by Typhoon Morakot, which devastated southern Taiwan in August.

The unexpected announcement made Tuesday by the Chinatrust Financial Holding Co. to acquire a 30 percent stake in Nan Shan Life Insurance Co. from China Strategic Holdings Ltd. will make it an increasingly complicated job to screen the entire acquisition deal concerning Taiwan's third-largest life insurer by total premiums, Sean Chen, chairman of the Cabinet-level Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC).

State-owned Lank Bank of Taiwan is mulling setting up more footholds in China after the signing of a memorandum of understanding on financial regulatory cooperation between Taiwan and China, a bank official said yesterday.

Ford Motor Company yesterday announced the appointment of Albert Li as president of Ford Lio Ho, effective Jan. 1, 2010 to replace the current president Jeffrey Nemeth.

Nan Ya Plastics Corp., the world's largest processor of plastics for pipes and imitation leather, delayed the restart of a chemical plant in Mailiao because of a gas leak, President Wu Chia-chau said yesterday.

Nan Shan Life Insurance Co. bought an office building in central city of Taichung for NT$2.65 billion (US$82.5 million), the company, the island's second-biggest life insurer, said in an e-mailed statement yesterday.