Confronted with an ever-growing pile of old newspapers, Taiwanese fashion designer Colin Lin came up with the idea of using them to make shoes and tote bags for her environmentally friendly footwear company.

Prosecutors in Miaoli district detained a woman and a man yesterday suspected of buying votes and seized alleged slush funds worth nearly NT$525 million.

Changhua County's cultural affairs bureau is planning to extend its tourism train line from Sihu to Lugang as part of its efforts to promote tourism in the area.

Medium-sized tour buses are now allowed to travel to the typhoon-ravaged Alishan Mountain area, following the reopening of the area to minibuses last month, the Directorate General of Highways (DGOH) announced yesterday.

A Canadian man was arrested yesterday for drug-trafficking and growing marijuana in his residence in Taichung.

Over 300 indigenous residents in southern Kaohsiung County, whose houses were destroyed by floods and mudslides caused by the devastating Typhoon Morakot in early August, yesterday gathered on the square in front of the Kaohsiung County Government, calling for the county government to send them back to their villages.

You don't usually hear building management committee and construction businesses mentioned in a ghost story.

Without taekwondo or karate, a young woman successfully outsmarted an alleged sexual violator who broke into her room, local media reported yesterday.

A schoolmaster busted while browsing pornographic sites on a computer during work hours said he was set up.

A human rights education center opened in the southern port city of Kaohsiung yesterday, with Mayor Chen Chu and her savior 30 years ago jointly officiating at a ceremony to mark its inauguration.