A task force set up to improve the management of Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport concluded a review meeting yesterday with the consensus that the airport should prioritize strengthening its policy implementation and addressing human error issues.

The Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport authorities will organize a food review as part of efforts to improve its unenviable image as a place for “awful and expensive food,” the airport's office director announced yesterday.

Opinionated spectators beware: talking loudly during a game of chess can land you almost two months in jail.

A task force that was appointed to help improve the overall service at Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport advised yesterday that the airport should be exempted from the Public Procurement Act to give it more operational flexibility.

The Criminal Investigation Bureau (CIB) yesterday announced a successful crackdown on a cross-border drug trafficking operation with the capture of its alleged drug lord in Taoyuan, Thursday. Investigators confiscated, among many things, small “drug balls” custom-designed to fit into one's rectum and be smuggled undetected across borders.

Vice Transportation and Communications Minister Yeh Kuang-shih lamented yesterday that the recent leaking of a toilet pipe at the No. 2 Terminal of Taoyuan International Airport is tantamount to a miniature of all the long-standing management problems plaguing the airport.

Aviation police said yesterday that their investigation into a toilet spill in a Terminal 2 bathroom of Taoyuan International Airport showed, despite earlier claims by airport authorities, no evidence of tampering or destruction by the public.

Taiwan's main airport was criticized Saturday for a leaking toilet pipe which left the airport's Number 2 Terminal flooded and stinking for several hours.

Taoyuan County, with a population exceeding 2 million, will be upgraded to a “quasi-municipality” Jan. 1, 2011, the Ministry of the Interior (MOI) said.

Most visitors to Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport have expressed satisfaction with the shuttle service launched yesterday to transport visitors between Terminal One and Terminal Two's parking facilities while Terminal One's parking structure is closed for renovations.