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.

You don't usually hear building management committee and construction businesses mentioned in a ghost story.

Without taekwondo or karate, a young woman successfully outsmarted an alleged sexual violator who broke into her room, local media reported yesterday.

A man won a big lotto jackpot of NT$206 million (US$6.4 million) earlier this month and shared NT$10 million with his girlfriend for dreaming two of the winning numbers, according to the Apple Daily News.

A prosecutor yesterday sought the death penalty for a man who sexually abused and killed his girlfriend in November last year.

If the Beitou Public Library is seen as a fresh breath of air among Taipei's lifeless concrete buildings, three planned exhibition halls for the 2010 International Flora Exposition in Taipei may end up being seen as a strong gust of wind sweeping nature through the city.

Thousands of fish in Danshui River were found dead yesterday and the environment bureau was looking for the cause.

China Times Weekly (CTW) yesterday said that it respects a famous local TV personality's right to sue for alleged misreporting of the entertainer's financial status while denying any wrongdoing.