To prevent those feeling depressed from going to the extreme, the Health Bureau of the Taichung City Government (台中市衛生局) announced yesterday that it has opened two new counseling stations, where every citizen is welcome to seek help if considering committing suicide.

A lottery winner in Taichung donated NT$6 million (US$203,460) to the city government yesterday, which the city mayor said will help thousands of underprivileged people.

A 29-year-old man, surnamed Chu (朱), fatally stabbed the 11-year-old brother of his 16-year-old girlfriend late yesterday in Taichung.

Taichung police arrested three runaway Vietnamese workers at a construction site in the central Taiwan city yesterday.

The Taichung District Prosecutors Office exhibited a BMW automobile, which it seized in a money-laundering scandal last year and would hold a public auction for on Feb. 7, setting the first case of prosecutors auctioning off a detained object.

Greater Taichung yesterday rolled out a three-pronged incentive program to encourage the switch to more environmentally friendly vehicles.

Riding on the wave of online shopping, a fraudster had fooled over 20 “customers” into booking for his non-existent hotel in Taichung, making over NT$100,000 over the course of the Chinese New Year holidays.

A new bridge in Taitung City will be named after Chen Shu-chu (陳樹菊), a local vegetable vendor who made Time magazine's 2010 list of the world's 100 most influential people for her acts of philanthropy, in the hope that others will follow her example, announced Taitung County's government yesterday.

Three dolphins, two of them dead, were found separately on beaches in the eastern county of Taitung this weekend,the Coast Guard Administration (CGA) said yesterday.

Taichung Mayor Jason Hu is standing by a multibillion New Taiwan dollar government project to develop a trade park in the city, despite skepticism of its economic benefits, a report said yesterday.