Changhua County Police arrested a man who had allegedly attempted to cash a bag of counterfeit coins, local media reported yesterday.

Changhua District Court yesterday convicted a couple guilty of murdering the husband's ex-wife and sentenced both to life imprisonment, judicial resources said.

The Criminal Investigation Bureau (CIB) busted a transnational group that offered surrogate mother services in Changhua County Thursday.

A local golf course operator and world renowned Portuguese architect Ivaro Siza signed an agreement recently to create landscape architecture works that will become cultural landmarks in Changhua County, the county's magistrate said yesterday.

Changhua County Magistrate Cho Po-yuan visited Japan recently to meet with Masanori Nishio, the mayor of Changhua's sister city Hakodate in Hokkaido, and promote tourism in the central Taiwan, a county official said Friday.

The Changhua District Prosecutors Office (CDPO), yesterday afternoon, issued a warrant for the arrest of former speaker of Changhua County, who escaped from hospital despite police surveillance, in a hope that he can show up as soon as possible.

Several ballot papers were found to be damaged and some were even received as plain white papers, at a ballot station in Changhua County yesterday.

A man was discovered dead inside a vehicle dredged from a drainage channel in Changhua County, reported the United Daily News yesterday.

A male maintenance worker was crushed to death yesterday morning by a 500-kilogram elevator falling from the sixth floor of an apartment building on Nanguo Road of Changhua City, central Taiwan, according to the police.

Some ducks were killed due to poison contamination, while some are being tortured to death.