Four consumers of a Japanese restaurant in Tainan City were taken to hospital for eating balloon fish, said Tainan City Health Bureau (TCHB) yesterday.

Tainan City is expected to become the ninth destination in Taiwan that will serve cross-Taiwan Strait air routes amid growing air travel demand between Taiwan and China, the Civil Aeronautics Administration (CAA) said Saturday.

Greater Tainan Councilor and Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) legislative nominee Wang Ding-yu (王定宇) has been formally accused of embezzling the funds he raised as a political figure for victims of Typhoon Morakot, which he allegedly transferred into a personal bank account.

One soldier was killed and one was injured when a military vehicle rolled off the shoulder of a road in Tainan City yesterday.

A police investigation of a mafia group found out that the leader of a Tainan-based mafia organization is the son of Chen Jia-de, captain of Tainan's Juvenile Delinquency Prevention Police Brigade. Chen Jia-de was removed from his position after the investigation, according to CNA.

The Tainan City's Department of Labor has started investigation on a potential case of a physician's partial memory loss resulted from myocardial infarction due to overworking.

A police SWAT team in Tainan City yesterday arrested a man who had taken three people hostage and threatened to blow up a gas station.

Ten disabled people yesterday staged a protest at the Tainan Railway Station to condemn the “humiliating treatment” of one of them by a Taiwan Railways Administration (TRA) employee.

The lingering row between Tainan Mayor William Lai and independent councilors over budget quota allocation may cause the city council to be unable to complete screening the city government budget plans for this year before the legal deadline of March 25.

A 2.7-kilometer section of the Sun Yat-sen Freeway will be sealed off for six hours on April 12, for a warplane emergency landing and takeoff drill, the Ministry of National Defense (MND) announced yesterday.