Two of the six workers poisoned by methanol gas at a leather tanning factory died yesterday while four others are still fighting for their lives at two hospitals in central Changhua County.

An elementary school in central Taiwan's Changhua County has launched a Vietnamese language study program aimed at helping school children born into intercultural families learn their parents' mother tongue, a county official said Monday.

The Changhua County government will soon begin the selection of this year's princesses to help promote its grape industry.

A man's body was found in his car in Yuanlin Township on Monday. He is suspected of having committed suicide with toxic gas hydrogen sulfide.

There was a gas explosion at a residence in Changhua yesterday morning. A 10-year-old girl was injured.

The interior ministry made an exception and granted a man's request to change his new-born female baby's identification number, which he said sounded embarrassing when read in the Taiwanese dialect, local media reported yesterday.

National Immigration Agency (NIA) helped an Indonesian female to obtain legal status in Taiwan and avoid deportation after having been married to a Taiwanese husband for 21 years, local media reported yesterday.

A Changhua judge yesterday sentenced a man to 18 years imprisonment for rape and robbery of beauticians after drugging them, local media reported yesterday.

The historic town of Lugang in the central county of Changhua is probably best-known for its large number of temples.

A man, surnamed Cheng, who owes 10 banks NT$2.03 million applied and was approved by the court yesterday to pay NT$10,000 per month in 96 installments over eight years.