A Taiwanese hot air balloon carrying Taitung Magistrate Justin Huang (黃健庭) took off Wednesday 7:20 a.m. local time in Australia's capital city Canberra as part of the Southern Hemisphere's largest ballooning festival.

A court in southeastern Taitung County has ruled that an aboriginal resident violated no rules after he was charged with alleged illegal possession of a rifle.

Taichung Mayor Jason Hu directed government agencies in his city Monday to tighten their management of local child caregivers after two infants died under the watch of a nanny in Hsinchu County on Saturday.

Heavy north-easterly winds yesterday halted nautical traffic between Taitung and Green Island, trapping over 1,000 travelers, local ship companies said.

A woman allegedly emailed a threat to an airline yesterday because her husband did not inform her about his trip to Macau in advance, according to the Aviation Police Office (APO).

Taitung County's Miramar Development Project (美麗灣開發案) passed its environmental impact assessment (EIA) with conditions, the Taitung County Government announced yesterday.

Want to fly? The Taitung County Government (台東縣政府) is recruiting two candidates for hot-air balloon pilot training.

The Taitung County Government and Miramar Resort Taitung executives yesterday reiterated their stance that there is nothing illegal in the project's construction or operation.

Environmental activists filed a petition Friday asking the Control Yuan to probe a long-disputed resort development project in Taitung, in the southeast of the country, on what was once one of Taiwan's most beautiful beaches.

Taiwanese vegetable vendor and philanthropist Chen Shu-chu donated Monday a cash award of US$50,000 she recently received to Mackay Memorial Hospital in Taipei to help the hospital build an intensive care unit in its Taitung branch.