Taipei (dpa) – A Taiwan court sentenced the owner of brothel to 15 years in prison for forcing employees to have sex with customers and burdening them with debts that they could never repay, reports said Tuesday.
The Taichung court ruling cited (...)
Taipei (dpa) – Environmentalists warned Taiwan Saturday to not roll back protections for Pacific tuna stocks at a key fisheries meeting later this month.
The Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission will decide on four zones of (...)
Taipei (dpa) – The Pacific island nation of Palau has fined a Taiwanese fishing boat 65,000 US dollars for illegally catching sharks in its waters, according to the environmental group Greenpeace on Thursday.
Palau designated its territorial (...)
Taipei (dpa) – Taipei health authorities ordered two grocery chains to remove beef ribs from the United States from their shelves Monday after random testing found traces of the drug ractopamine.
The order affects one branch of international (...)
Taipei (dpa) – Groups of young women walk clockwise around an incense burner at Taipei's Hsiahai City God Temple, holding red string above their heads.
Single women in Taipei are leaving nothing to chance, hoping that performing this ritual would (...)
Taipei (dpa) – A Taiwan couple was arrested after being accused of posing as Tantric Buddhist masters and persuading their believers to buy blessed dolls of the Sesame Street character Elmo to take home and worship, local media reported (...)
New Taipei, Taiwan (dpa) – An annual contest to see which farmer can raise the largest pig ended in Taiwan Saturday with nine ornamented pig carcasses displayed for public worshiping at a temple in the Taipei suburb of Sanxia.
According to (...)