The National Immigration Agency busted a human-trafficking gang in Hsinchu City on Friday and helped five runaway workers from Indonesia escape the misery of being forced by the gang to work as prostitutes.

Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Legislator Lin Shu-fen (林淑芬) led protesters from Yuanli Village (苑裡鎮), Miaoli with a petition against the InfraVest Wind Power Group (英華威公司) during a press conference yesterday, calling for the Group's wind turbine projects to be relocated due to safety concerns.

Hollywood superstar Will Smith is scheduled to arrive in Taipei Thursday, along with his 15-year-old son Jaden, to promote their new film “After Earth,” Sony Pictures said yesterday.

Taiwan Water Corp. (TWC) yesterday moved to suspend and reduce tap water supply in Kaohsiung for a duration of 22 hours starting 1:00 p.m. after finding that the threshold odor number (TON) of water hit a high of 20, affecting some 32,000 households in the southern city, according to the 7th area administration office of the company.

Fongshan remained the favorite location of property buyers in the Greater Kaohsiung area in March, leading the municipality's 38 administrative districts in real estate transactions, according to statistics released by the government yesterday.

Following in the footsteps of Keelung and Taichung, Taipei Harbor will launch a direct passenger service between Taiwan and China on May 13, Taiwan International Ports Corp. (TIPC) said yesterday.

Omni Calibration Laboratory Ltd. has become the first firm to begin operations in the Yilan science park, the company said yesterday.

“Tung flowers are blossoming all over New Taipei City.” This was the message yesterday from Pong Huey-yuan (彭惠圓), New Taipei's Hakka Affairs commissioner, who added that there are 19 trails offering scenic tung flower viewing throughout the city's 10 districts.

A female senior high school student and a male college student who were filmed apparently engaging in oral sex on the Kaohsiung Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) system were yesterday referred to prosecutors by the police.

The annual Taiwan National Day fireworks event will be held in Hsinchu City this year, Legislative Speaker Wang Jin-pyng (王金平) announced yesterday.