The Yushan National Park Headquarters called Wednesday on those who have not done so to vote for Yushan, or Jade Mountain, as one of the world's natural wonders, as the second stage of global online voting entered its final month.

The Nantou county government in central Taiwan launched a new publicity campaign Sunday to encourage smokers to replace smoking with reading as part of the observance of the May 31 World No Tobacco Day.

To provide an unforgettable graduation experience, the National Singang Senior High School of Arts in Chiayi County requires its senior graduating class to trek up Jade Mountain in order to receive their high school diplomas.

A historic chapel close to the scenic Sun Moon Lake in central Taiwan hosted its first-ever mass wedding yesterday.

Visitors to the Jade Mountain (Yushan) National Park must take caution because they are likely to encounter Formosan bears, park rangers warned yesterday.

The body of a 75-year old woman was found in a hotel toilet yesterday morning. She was part of a tour group from Zhejiang province in China.

A woman was accidentally spared from losing NT$1.8 million to a con artist when she repeatedly mistook his bank information.

Several tourists from Fujian, China were injured yesterday when their tour bus scraped the side of a mountain while transporting them from Yushan National Park to Alishan.

She has a very good memory. That helped Chien Ching-yu, a policewoman, to catch a motorbike thief of the same sex on Thursday.

A new Taoist pope was proclaimed in Nantou yesterday. The proclamation took place at the Nantou Stadium, where Zhang Daochen declared himself the lineal heir to the first Celestial Master, or Tianshi, who started his Taoist See in the mid-first century.