The Central Weather Bureau expected to issue land warning for Typhoon Krosa

The China Post - The Central Weather Bureau (CWB) is expected to issue a land warning for Typhoon Krosa this morning after it sounded a sea warning yesterday afternoon against the latest typhoon threatening Taiwan this year. Full Story

NT$3 billion in bets for Wang as winning pitcher in playoffs

The China Post - Wang Chien-ming is a "glory of Taiwan." That alone has enabled bookmakers in Taiwan to chalk up NT$3 billion in wagers for a win by the New York Yankees in the first of their best-of-five American League playoff games with the Cleveland Indians today. Full Story

Wang and Sabathia: Ace pitchers on display in Yankee-Indians AL opener

The China Post - The ace pitchers sport identical 19-7 records. Both were born in 1980, and both have become the starter their team is so confident in that they will take the ball in Game 1 of the American League Division Series Thursday night at Jacobs Field. Full Story

Drug contaminated crabs from India to be destroyed

The China Post - The Department of Health (DOH) ordered yesterday that a batch of live crabs imported from India be destroyed after it was discovered that they contained residue of the forbidden antibiotic nitrofurans, a DOH official said that same day. Full Story

CLA to work with BSI on disaster reduction system

The China Post - The British Standards Institution (BSI) will assist the Cabinet-level council of Labor Affairs (CLA) in developing a new mechanism aimed at reducing occupational accidents and disasters at local factories or workplaces, a CLA official said yesterday. Full Story

Tainan University to be first complete academy

The China Post - The National University of Tainan (NUTN) in Tainan City, southern Taiwan, is expected to become the first complete learning institution in Taiwan in 2009 when it begins to accept junior high school students, the university's chief said yesterday. Full Story

Taichung firm fined for age discrimination

The China Post - The Taichung City Government in central Taiwan fined a construction firm NT$300,000 (US$9,000) for age discrimination in hiring, representing the first monetary penalty against age discrimination since such rule was added to the Employment Service Law in May. Full Story

Taipei-Yilan freeway to open for bus service at year-end

The China Post - The Taipei-Yilan freeway, inaugurated in May 2006 and open to small cars only, will be opened to passenger bus operation at the end of the year, with two selected bus companies moving to import the most advanced buses from abroad to best serve passengers. Full Story

Former cop found to be behind extortion schemes

The China Post - A former police detective was arrested in Taoyuan Wednesday for masterminding a spate of badger games. Also rounded up were his mobster partner and 37 underlings as well as teenage girls. Full Story

Underground futures dealer nabbed for debt collection

The China Post - Taipei police rounded up Lin Tsai-sheng, 37, and eight others including six teenagers for usury debt collection yesterday. Lin was an underground futures dealer in Taipei. Full Story

Man uses dog-napping to force a tryst with owner

The China Post - A love-lorn man was indicted yesterday for abducting a pet dog to coerce a tryst with his girlfriend. Chow Ping-yi, 34, of Taipei, was prosecuted on two counts: fraud and coercion. Full Story

Deal with students' lack of sleep: KMT

The China Post - Lawmakers urged the Ministry of Education (MOE) yesterday to come up with substantial measures within one month to address the issue of students not getting enough sleep due to heavy school workloads. Full Story

Ministry of Education eases rules for loans to study abroad

The China Post - The Ministry of Education (MOE) yesterday approved a set of revisions to rules governing loans to students to finance their advanced studies abroad, with those students whose annual family incomes are under NT$1.45 million to apply for the loans, up from a previous ceiling of NT$1.2 million. Full Story

More protest against Taipei MRT station

The China Post - Some 30 protests erupted again at the Council for Cultural Affairs in Taipei yesterday as members from the Losheng Sanitorium Leprosy Patient's Self-Help Organization and the Youth Union for Leprosy Patient Rights demanded a stop to the 75-year-old site's destruction, which would clear the area for the planned Hsingchuang mass rapid transit (MRT) station. Full Story

Drug addict arrested again in Hsinchu after two days on the lam

The China Post - A drug addict that miraculously managed to escape while being escorted to Hsinchu District Prosecutor's Office on Monday was arrested again yesterday morning, according to the police. Full Story

22-year sentence sought for Chiayi speaker over graft

The China Post - The speaker of the county council of Chiayi in southern Taiwan was indicted yesterday on charges of corruption and prosecutors demanded a 22-year sentence for him. Full Story

10 Rebar defendants stay in custody

The China Post - The Taipei District Court ruled yesterday that 10 defendants connected with the Rebar Asia-Pacific Group scandal will remain in custody for two more months despite their plea for release after their current custody term expires. Full Story

Central Weather Bureau keeps monitoring typhoon

The China Post - Typhoon Krosa, which was upgraded from a tropical storm yesterday morning, is not expected to affect Taiwan until Saturday. But the Central Weather Bureau (CWB) will maintain close monitoring of the movements of the latest typhoon this year, said bureau officials. Full Story

Clemens OK, slated to start Game 3 vs. Indians

The China Post - It's all systems go for Roger Clemens. The Rocket got through his simulated game in Tampa Tuesday with no immediate problems. Full Story

Make 'tracks' to the new bike and walking path through Chiayi rice paddies

The China Post - An enterprising team of urban planners in the southwestern Taiwan city of Chiayi (嘉義) recently took over an unused and abandoned railroad running through the middle of the city and transformed it into a scenic "pedestrian paradise" and bicycle path with views of the distant Central Mountain Range. Full Story

Keelung's unforgettable caves

The China Post - Hemmed in by steep hills crowned with the remains of five old forts, Taiwan's northeastern city of Keelung is a much more interesting, even surprising, place than many give it credit for. Full Story

Mayor Chen 'disappointed' over lottery

The China Post - Kaohsiung Mayor Chen Chu expressed strong disappointment yesterday over a Ministry of Finance (MOF) formal announcement of the winning bank of the country's first sports lottery to be launched next year. Full Story

Taipei International Flower Exhibition to open at the end of October

The China Post - The 2007 Taipei International Flower Exhibition will be held Oct. 31-Nov. 4 at the Taipei World Trade Center, with local growers and counterparts from six other countries -- the Netherlands, Australia, Japan, Thailand, the Philippines and Malaysia -- invited to showcase their special flora, a spokesman for the event organizer, the Council of Agriculture (COA), said yesterday. Full Story

2007 NTSO music festival to launch October 6 in Taichung

The China Post - The 2007 International Music Festival organized by National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra (NTSO) will begin Oct. 6 in Taichung City in central Taiwan, an NTSO spokesman said yesterday. Full Story

Department of Health, experts allay mercury flu shot worries

The China Post - Officials at the Department of Health (DOH) emphasized yesterday the safety of the mercury in the flu vaccines while medical experts urged parents not to let their young children skip the injection because of the mercury issue. Full Story

Majority of nail polish improperly labeled, some contain lead: CF

The China Post - About 67 percent of nail polish products sold in Taiwan are improperly labeled, with over 2 percent of those tested containing excessive amounts of the heavy metal lead, said the Consumers' Foundation (CF) yesterday. Full Story

Tropical Storm Krosa 'likely' to affect Taiwan in 4-5 days: CWB

The China Post - Tropical Storm Krosa, the 15th storm in the western Pacific this year, formed Tuesday morning east of the Philippines and is likely to affect Taiwan in four to five days, said the Central Weather Bureau (CWB) yesterday. Full Story

Chiayi temperatures reach record October high: CWB

The China Post - Temperatures in the southern region of Chiayi soared to 34.2 degrees Celsius yesterday afternoon -- the highest October temperature recorded in the area in the past 40 years, said the Central Weather Bureau (CWB). Full Story

Court hands down 11-year sentence in abuse case

The China Post - The Taiwan High Court has sentenced a man to 11 years in prison for his involvement in an abuse case which led to the death of his girlfriend's seven-year-old daughter, local media reported yesterday. Full Story

Changhua court allows man to divorce comatose wife

The China Post - The Changhua District Court allowed the divorce of a couple who had been married for 22 years, because the wife has been in a coma for the past three years, local media reported yesterday. Full Story

A 'tragedy of errors' in Panchiao bike theft dispute

The China Post - It pays to know English, well, at least some letters of the alphabet. That adage was learned a little too late by a 54-year-old resident of Panchiao Sunday. Full Story

Wholesalers arrested for selling fake fashion goods

The China Post - Three wholesalers in the southern port city of Kaohsiung have been arrested on suspicion of distributing counterfeit fashion goods to local retailers, police sources said yesterday. Full Story

Hualien reports 89 cases of enterovirus among students

The China Post - Hualien County in eastern Taiwan has reported 89 cases of enterovirus among schoolchildren in the first nine months of this year, resulting in the temporary closure of eight kindergartens and nurseries, the Department of Health under the Hualien County government said yesterday. Full Story

Special Olympics provide a spectacular warmup to the 2008 Olympics

The China Post - he 2007 Special Olympics World Summer Games -- a sports extravaganza for the intellectually disabled -- opened in Shanghai Tuesday with much fanfare and pageantry, attracting celebrities around the globe to celebrate the causes of equality, inclusion and tolerance, which are central to the Special Olympic Movement. Full Story

Yankees hoping mastery over Indians carries over to playoffs

The China Post - The New York Yankees take great pride in their accomplishments in a regular season that began with more valleys than peaks but finished with them running their consecutive playoff appearance streak to 13. Full Story

Flu shots with mercury pose no medical problems: CDC

The China Post - Officials at the Department of Health (DOH) urged parents to let their young children receive the free injection of anti-influenza vaccines despite the controversy over the mercury in the vaccines. Full Story

EPA issues west coast warning on ozone pollution

The China Post - Ozone concentrations on the west coast will remain high today and people should cut down on outdoor activities to the minimum, according to the Environmental Protection Administration (EPA). Full Story

Foreign professionals visit Kaohsiung recycling plants

The China Post - A group of foreign resource recycling professionals visited resource recycling plants in Kaohsiung County in southern Taiwan to acquire a better understanding of Taiwan's performance in this regard, an Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) official said yesterday. Full Story

2 high-tech labs to open at Chengkung University

The China Post - The National Applied Research Laboratories (NARL) will open branches on nanotechnology and chip design at National Chengkung University (NCU) in southern Taiwan later this week, a university spokesman said yesterday. Full Story

One in four students depressed and need treatment: foundation

The China Post - According to a recent survey by the John Tung Foundation (JTF) entitled "Taiwanese college student depression behavior," has indicated that one out of every four students is in need of treatment for depression. Full Story

Academia Sinica develops sugar chip to detect cancer

The China Post - Researchers at Academia Sinica have completed the development of a new "sugar chip" that is able to diagnose cancer cell, bacterial, or viral infection within seconds and with high accuracy, academic sources said yesterday. Full Story

Original opera to make Taipei debut in November

The China Post - "Firmiana Rain," an original opera created by the Taiwan-born U.S.-based composer Chen May-tchi, will make its debut at the National Theater in Taipei City Nov. 1, followed by two further performances Nov. 3 and Nov. 4, a spokesman for the theater said yesterday. Full Story

Suspects confess in Tainan double murder

The China Post - Suspects of a double murder in Tainan County were caught and then confessed, according to the police officials yesterday. Full Story

National Palace Museum's annual sale to open October 5

The China Post - The National Palace Museum will hold a three-day sale from Oct. 5 to offer its publications, a wide range of reproductions of art pieces in its collection, and various souvenir items in celebration of its 81st anniversary, a spokesman for the museum said yesterday. Full Story

Motorists attacked by drunken policeman

The China Post - A national highway police officer, who was driving under the influence of alcohol, cut off a pick-up truck and pepper-sprayed the driver and passenger on Sunday evening. Full Story

Taiwan's Lu Yen-Hsun makes flying start at Japan Open

The China Post - Taiwan number one Lu Yen-Hsun fought off a ferocious challenge from Asian Games gold medalist Danai Udomchoke to move into the Japan Open second round here Monday. Full Story

Four children burned alive in Tatsun garage-home fire

The China Post - Four children, including a two-month-old baby girl, were burned alive in a mid-morning garage-home fire in Tatsun near Changhua on Sunday. Full Story

Three dead hogs produce 300 kg of worms a month

The China Post - Dead hogs are of no use. The only thing that can be done with them is to destroy them by incineration. A clever worm seller, however, turned the deceased swine into a small golden goose. It's not at all difficult. Full Story

Foreign youths 'initiated' at temple

The China Post - "I was greatly impressed." So said Dario Rivera after he was initiated at a coming-of-age ceremony held at Taipei's Confucian Temple yesterday. Full Story

7th annual Foreign Workers poetry, essay contest held

The China Post - Taipei's seventh annual Foreign Workers Poetry & Essay contest took place in the 228 Memorial Peace Park yesterday, bringing together both local Taiwanese and migrants from all over Southeast Asia for an afternoon of inter-cultural artistic appreciation. Full Story

Two injured in gas explosion in Hualien

The China Post - A gas explosion broke out yesterday morning at a cafeteria in Chian Township in the eastern county of Hualien, leaving two people seriously injured. Full Story

FAA plane safety seminar to be in Taipei

The China Post - The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) of the U.S. Department of Transportation will hold an aircraft maintenance safety seminar in Taipei Oct. 4-5, with some 120 technicians and executives from Taiwan and abroad attending. Full Story

2007 Taiwan International Animation Festival begins

The China Post - The 2007 Taiwan International Animation Festival is being held at Shin Kong Cineplex in Taipei's Ximending shopping district for 10 days until Oct. 7. Full Story

Man clubbed to death for stolen baseball supplement

The China Post - The popularity of Taiwanese New York Yankees pitcher Wang Chien-ming proved so deadly that a man was clubbed to death for stealing a newspaper supplement about the baseball star, Taiwan media reported Saturday. Full Story

Kidnappers get caught up in presidential motorcade

The China Post - Four Taiwanese gangsters who kidnapped a woman in the southern county of Tainan were wretched enough to bump into the touring motorcade of President Chen Shui-bian, local media reported Sunday. Full Story

Tropical Storm Lekima unlikely to affect Taiwan

The China Post - Tropical Storm Lekima, the 14th named storm in western Pacific this year, came into being in the South China Sea yesterday, but is unlikely to affect Taiwan, according to the Central Weather Bureau (CWB). Full Story

Police arrest pair of hustlers for allegedly swindling 200 nurses

The China Post - Two plain-looking but sweet-talking Taiwanese young men have swindled 200 nurses by pretending to be their lovers, a newspaper said Saturday. Full Story

Kinmen turns old barracks into recycling centers

The China Post - The Kinmen county government held a seminar Saturday to exhibit its success in remodeling derelict barracks into recycling centers, with Magistrate Lee Chu-feng hailing it as a mutually beneficial development for the military and the private sector. Full Story

Old Keelung heroin smuggling case closed

The China Post - Keelung customs officials announced the closure of a drug smuggling case Friday in which a large amount of heroin was concealed in the hollowed-out base of a Buddha statute. Full Story

Traffic control plans put in place for National Day activities

The China Post - Traffic controls around the Presidential Office on Oct. 3, 5, and 7 to facilitate the rehearsal of National Day celebration activities, the Taipei City Police Department said yesterday. The traffic controls will be enforced from 12:00 a.m. to 4:00 a.m., Oct. 3 and 5, and from 5:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., Oct. 7. But the controls may be advanced or extended pending the conditions, police said. Full Story

First annual police skill and technique contest held in Taipei

The China Post - The first annual police skill and technique contest took place yesterday in Taipei in a National Police Agency (NPA) attempt to tackle officers' overweight issues. Full Story

'Grandma Joyce' Park inaugurated in Changhua

The China Post - A life education park in memory of the late American philanthropist Joyce McMillan and her devotion to the nation's disadvantaged children was inaugurated Saturday in Changhua County's Erhlin township. Full Story

Hog kidneys from Canada found with banned drug

The China Post - Imported frozen hog kidneys from Canada have recently been discovered to contain the residue of ractopamine, a banned drug in Taiwan, Feng Jun-lan, an official responsible for food health at the Department of Health (DOH), said Saturday. Full Story

Boss of notorious booze bandits gang nabbed

The China Post - Police in Kaohsiung have arrested three suspects in a crackdown on a gang who focused on stealing alcoholic storages, officials said yesterday. Full Story

Kaohsiung university inks pact with volunteer org.

The China Post - National Kaohsiung First University of Science and Technology (NKFUST) in southern Taiwan signed an agreement Friday with the International Association for Volunteer Effort (IAVE) and its Taiwan branch to pave the way for future international exchanges in service-learning. Full Story

Disney's High School Musical 2 is a big hit

The China Post - Disney Channel won across youth demographics in Taiwan with the premiere of the worldwide smash hit High School Musical 2. It was the most-watched program in its timeslot against all free-to-air and cable TV channels among cable kids 4-14 and 10-14 and was the top movie of the day against all channels among cable girls 10-14 and cable individuals 15-24. Full Story