The Kinmen County government yesterday denied allegations that it had sponsored an ad campaign at venues in Taipei's mass rapid transit (MRT) system supporting a specific candidate in next month's elections.

The Chung Hsing New Village in central Taiwan's Nantou County, once the seat of the Taiwan provincial government, will in 10 years be transformed into a research park that will generate an annual output value of NT$29.5 billion (US$911 million), the park's administration said Saturday.

A Vietnamese couple who ran away from their employers was found in Taipei County's Hsichih City Nov. 20 by the National Immigration Agency (NIA).

Taipei County police have indicted a teenage suspect for an alleged online con in which he bought and received a large number of boutique products from Web sites without paying.

Confronted with an ever-growing pile of old newspapers, Taiwanese fashion designer Colin Lin came up with the idea of using them to make shoes and tote bags for her environmentally friendly footwear company.

Prosecutors in Miaoli district detained a woman and a man yesterday suspected of buying votes and seized alleged slush funds worth nearly NT$525 million.

Changhua County's cultural affairs bureau is planning to extend its tourism train line from Sihu to Lugang as part of its efforts to promote tourism in the area.

Medium-sized tour buses are now allowed to travel to the typhoon-ravaged Alishan Mountain area, following the reopening of the area to minibuses last month, the Directorate General of Highways (DGOH) announced yesterday.

A Canadian man was arrested yesterday for drug-trafficking and growing marijuana in his residence in Taichung.

Over 300 indigenous residents in southern Kaohsiung County, whose houses were destroyed by floods and mudslides caused by the devastating Typhoon Morakot in early August, yesterday gathered on the square in front of the Kaohsiung County Government, calling for the county government to send them back to their villages.