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.

A resident in Eastern Taiwan's Taitung Count was charged with embezzlement yesterday for allegedly taking NT$7,000 left in the cash dispensing slot of an ATM by another person, according to the county's Baoshang Police Precinct.

A group of students and teachers from National Taitung University in eastern Taiwan set off on a kayak trip around Taiwan on Saturday, with the aim of taking pictures and video of the island's entire coastline.

More than 90 percent of employers in Taichung City pay their teenage part-time workers less than the minimum wage and do not provide health and labor insurance coverage for them, according to a recent poll.

The sky in Taitung County was dotted with bright colors Saturday, as a festival featuring hot-air balloons from Taiwan and other countries was launched.

Building a traditional canoe-like wooden boat marked the ending of elementary school for a group of students on the outlying island of Lanyu but the beginning of a mission to pass down the boat building tradition of their tribe, the Tao.

The Taitung government restarted an environmental evaluation process for a controversial beach resort project yesterday, as activists demanded that it be abandoned.