People wondering what Buddhist monks do inside a temple will now have the opportunity get a real-life glimpse of just that.

Taiwan Water Corp. (TWC) yesterday moved to suspend and reduce tap water supply in Kaohsiung for a duration of 22 hours starting 1:00 p.m. after finding that the threshold odor number (TON) of water hit a high of 20, affecting some 32,000 households in the southern city, according to the 7th area administration office of the company.

Fongshan remained the favorite location of property buyers in the Greater Kaohsiung area in March, leading the municipality's 38 administrative districts in real estate transactions, according to statistics released by the government yesterday.

A female senior high school student and a male college student who were filmed apparently engaging in oral sex on the Kaohsiung Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) system were yesterday referred to prosecutors by the police.

A highly sought after property plot has been sold for NT$4.271 billion, representing a new record in Southern Taiwan, the Kaohsiung City Government Land Administration (高雄市地政局) announced yesterday.

The 2013 Kaohsiung Neimen Song Jiang Jhen battle array events are scheduled to take place from March 30 to April 7 in the southern city.

The Kaohsiung District Agricultural Research and Extension Station in southern Taiwan recently unveiled a new strain of soybean that it hopes can be sold to local and foreign markets by the end of 2013, a researcher said Monday.

The Environmental Protection Bureau of the Kaohsiung City Government yesterday resolved to impose a fine of NT$15.77 million on the Kaohsiung oil refinery of the state-run CPC Corp.

The Kaohsiung District Court yesterday approved prosecutors' request to detain an Army cadet over an attempted murder in the Southern Taiwan city.

A car with five people on board crashed into a utility pole in Kaohsiung yesterday morning, killing four and injuring one, police said.