With access to underground radio networks that sell drugs, people in Yunlin County spend NT$1.4 billion a year on questionable medicines and consequently face health issues, local media reported yesterday.

Police in Yunlin arrested a man for allegedly killing another man in a gunfight over a debt, officials said yesterday.

Chinese New Year is always the perfect season to bag a good bargain. And for connoisseurs, products bearing the Made-In-Taiwan (MIT) tag are always the first choice.

An institute was establishedin Yunlin County yesterday that will spend more than NT$100 million (US$3.1 million) over the next 10 years to help build the character of the county's elementary school students and teach them English.

A disgruntled candidate who fired a gunshot and injured a woman Saturday night in southwest Yunlin County expressed his regret and issued an apology to voters yesterday.

A family trip at river turned out a tragedy in Yunlin County, where seven people were engulfed in the water at approximately 11 a.m., killing one and injuring six, local media reported yesterday.

A woman allegedly set fire to two scooters, owned by her colleagues, in an attempt to take their temporary jobs that they were granted as victims of flooding caused by Typhoon Morakot, said the Yunlin County Police Department yesterday.

The police in Dounan Township in Yunlin County arrested four suspects for illegally killing six wild Petaurista lenas, the white-faced weasel, using modified shotguns.

Chang Li-shan, the Kuomintang (KMT) nominee, quit his run for magistrate of Yunlin yesterday, sending a shock wave through the ruling party leadership, reeling in disarray over the fiasco in Saturday's legislative by-election.

In yet another blow for the ruling Kuomintang (KMT) following its defeat in the Yunlin County legislative by-election last weekend, the party's candidate for the year-end magisterial election in that rural constituency withdrew her bid Monday.