Researchers in Taiwan have developed a new kind of motor that can be made small enough to fit into electronic devices, such as LED lighting fixtures, to enable their mobility.

A 50-hectare zone was opened yesterday in Tainan to grow pineapples for export, an initiative aimed at adding to the region's lineup of fruits that are finding niches in foreign markets, the city government said.

A man in his 70s from Yunlin County was arrested by police for illegally catching stray dogs in southern Tainan City.

The Tourism Bureau is inviting one and all to a series of summer leisure and tourism activities at the Siraya National Scenic Area in Southern Taiwan. The fun events kicked off earlier this month and will last through to the end of August.

The police are still investigating a freeway traffic accident in which a sport utility vehicle was burned down to its frame but no one was trapped inside.

Jing-Jing Fang, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of Virtual Reality & Multimedia Research Laboratory at National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), southern Taiwan, has been devoted into a novel computer-aided navigation system for orthognathic planning in which an unprecedented design called navigational articulator (Narticulator) can provide surgeons more comprehensive information to rule out the uncertainty occurred in high-risk surgeries and increase the accuracy in planning as well as outcomes prediction in the complex ones.

Founder Shi Wen-long (許文龍) of Chi Mei Industrial Group (奇美實業集團) yesterday officially donated his new private Chi Mei Museum, located in the Tainan Metropolitan Park, to the Tainan City Government. The new museum will become a landmark of the metropolitan city after it is ready for operation in 2013.

Tainan-based National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) announced recently that the universities at southern Taiwan will team up to explore human mind and behavior with the help of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) technology.

Police investigative unit Captain Lin Hung-shin (林宏星) was shot and killed early yesterday at Guantian in Tainan City (台南官田), with suspected shooter Lee Guo-ling (李國鱗) later found injured with bullet wounds after police returned fire.

Kenyan runner Richard Mutua Mutisya won the men's event of the Tainan Ancient Capital International Marathon Sunday, while Taiwan's Jenny Li kept the women's title at home.