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.

Prosecutors in Kinmen yesterday questioned 80 suspected “phantom voters” who had moved homes in the outlying island county in vote-rigging schemes to support specific candidates in next month's elections.

A Taipei university yesterday broke ground for a project to build a campus on the outlying island county of Kinmen, targeting students from China, a report said.

The offshore county of Penghu has decided to make the county's Hujing Island the nation's first low-carbon island by promoting electric motorcycles, offering free battery-charging services, county officials said Monday.

Law enforcement authorities in the outlying Kinmen County has found a household that has four times as many “ghost” residents as actual residents, as they crack down on people illegally registered there ahead of year-end elections.

The Ministry of Transportation and Communications (MOTC) will assist the Lienchiang county government to construct a religious park around a Matsu temple on the outlying island county to help boost local tourism, Transport Minister Mao Chi-kuo said Sunday.

Central Taiwan's Changhua County last week held a ceremony to celebrate the anniversary of the believed ascension to heaven of the island's beloved goddess Matsu, known as the protector of fishermen.

Residents of the offshore Lienchiang County were not only surprised to find out that some 67,000 people had applied for an online draw to be the county's “magistrate for a day,” but were even more astonished to find out that the winner was an American.

Two special concerts were staged in a hidden waterway in Kinmen Sunday to mark the 60th anniversary of the Battle of Kuningtou, in which Kuomintang forces fought off invading Chinese communists to maintain control of the outlying island.

A female judge formerly posted to the island of Mazhu accused her ex-superior of sexual harassment resulting in the accused resigning from his position as the district head judge yesterday.