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.

The opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP)is scheduled to take disciplinary action next Wednesday against a local party official for making unfavorable remarks about Lee Wen-chung, the DPP's candidate in December's Nantou County magistrate election at a press conference held Friday by a supporter of Lee's election rival.

Two workers en route to pick tea leaves in a mountainous region in central Taiwan were killed after a truck carrying seven plunged to the bottom of a ravine yesterday, local media reported.

A 9-passenger van carrying an unidentified number of female tea pickers lost control yesterday morning before careering down a 10-meter-high embankment in Nantou, injuring 13 people.

A Nantou County councilor was sentenced yesterday to four months imprisonment by the local court for attempting to influence voters with free trips.

A bus driver collapsed while the vehicle was moving at 80 kph on the expressway. Luckily for the people in the bus and other drivers on the road, a passenger stepped in to save the day.

Tourists who were saved by a bus driver from a possible tragic accident described their savior's sacrifice as “heroic.”

More than 1,000 Chinese tourists will celebrate the upcoming Mid-Autumn Festival at the scenic Sun Moon Lake in the central county of Nantou, officials said yesterday.

A record number of people from home and abroad took part in the annual mass swim across the scenic Sun Moon Lake in central Taiwan Sunday, with long lines of colorful swim caps dotting the clear lake.

Nearly 26,000 swimmers from home and abroad will gather Sunday for the annual Sun Moon Lake Swimming Carnival, an event which was first held in 1983 and has attracted an increasing number of participants over the years.