Omni Calibration Laboratory Ltd. has become the first firm to begin operations in the Yilan science park, the company said yesterday.

The Yilan Police cracked a gang of fraud debt collectors yesterday, with the gang members sent to the Yilan Prosecutors Office for further investigation under at least six different offenses.

A homeless buffalo has found a home in a farm in Yilan County after wandering on the northeast coast for more than a year, local newspapers have reported.

Yilan police lead a nationwide search and seizure of nearly 30 political betting stations on Thursday.

Neighbors and the police in northeastern Yilan County were unable to save a man from committing suicide despite learning that he had ordered five tanks of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) yesterday.

Eight people were injured during an explosion earlier yesterday at a military arsenal in northeastern Yilan County's Yuanshan Township, said the Ministry of National Defense (MND) yesterday.

Over 20 visitors were stung by hornets while touring a lake in Yilan County yesterday. None of them sustained serious injuries, local hospitals said.

Chairman Chen Rong-hong of Raydium Semiconductor Corp., an AU Optronics (AUO) affiliate specializing in the design of driver integrated circuits (IC), died in a paragliding accident in the mountains of the northeastern county of Yilan on Wednesday, according to an announcement issued by the firm yesterday.

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The 2011 Yilan International Children's Folklore and Folkgame Festival kicked off Saturday in northern Taiwan's Yilan County, drawing more than 16,000 visitors on its first day.