Recreating a traditional Javanese wedding ritual and performing traditional Indonesian dances, hundreds of Indonesians living in Taipei celebrated the Indonesian Cultural Festival at Taipei’s Da-an Park on Sunday. The festival, organized by Taipei City’s Department of Labor Affairs, is an annual event for the 23,000 Indonesian workers in Taipei to gather and celebrate their culture. [...]

Taipei City’s Department of Health yesterday promised to look into a dispute over breast augmentation surgery after a middle-aged woman accused a well-known plastic surgeon of taking out gel implants without informing her. The woman, surnamed Hung (洪), had breast augmentation surgery in July last year at the clinic of plastic surgeon Lee Chin-liang (李進良), [...]

An innovative city guide system that offers a wide range of services from medical information to transportation is offering visitors as well as residents an easy and fun tour experience in Taipei. Map of Taipei Amusement (MOTA), the free-of-charge Kiosk information service, is available in both Chinese and English. It fulfills functions covering food, living, [...]

Taipei, Oct. 30 (CNA) Taiwan’s prosecutors offices will be encouraged to “adopt” various local professional baseball teams to help deter gambling and game-fixing, a Ministry of Justice (MOJ) official said Friday. Tsai Jui-chung, director of the MOJ’s Department of Prosecutorial Affairs, said that the Tainan Prosecutors Office in southern Taiwan has forged a close cooperative [...]

Taipei, Oct. 30 (CNA) The number of economic crimes in Taiwan are down slightly so far this year mainly because of the dramatic decrease in intellectual property right (IPR) infringements, the Ministry of the Interior (MOI) said Friday. The authorities cracked down on 8,314 economic crime cases during the first nine months of this year, [...]

Taiwan will immediately halt the import of beef from the U.S. if one case of mad cow disease is found, Department of Health Yaung Chih-liang said on Thursday, describing the risk as nil. Taiwan announced an agreement on October 23 to open up its market to bone-in beef and related products from the U.S. beginning [...]

The Banqiao District Court rejected a request from prosecutors early Thursday to detain two baseball players suspected of involvement in a game-fixing ring. Investigators wanted Brother Elephants team members Wang Ching-li and Wu Bau-hsien in custody because of fears they could collude with witnesses and suspects, but the court reportedly judged there was no such [...]

Taipei, Oct. 29 (CNA) Two professional baseball players of the Brother Elephants team admitted Thursday to being involved in game-fixing. Wang Chin-li and Wu Pau-hsien made their confessions while being questioned by prosecutors of the Banciao District Prosecutors Office in Taipei County. An investigation into professional baseball game-fixing had been snowballing over the past few [...]

> Taipei, Oct. 30 (CNA) Nearly 100 fishermen from central Taiwan’s Changhua County held a sit-in protest against the fourth stage of construction of the Central Taiwan Science Park (CTSP) Friday, claiming that the construction will cause serious pollution of some of Taiwan’s most important aquaculture areas and fishing grounds. Demanding that the government dismiss [...]

o 102, 103 By Rachel Chan CNA Staff Writer Following the success of the Deaflympics in September, during which Taiwan showcased the theme “Power in Me” to the city’s residents and people around the world, Taipei Mayor Hau Lung-bin now envisions bringing“Power of Beauty”to Taipei with the 2010 Taipei International Gardening and Horticulture Exposition (Taipei [...]