Police report a continued rise in online shopping fraud and fake buyer schemes, with scammers using social media, fake fan pages, and fraudulent listings to lure victims off official platforms. Once victims move to private chats, they are pushed to pay through bank transfers, gaming points, or convenience store payment codes.

Concerns mount that some users may not be able to distinguish between neutral information and messaging aligned with Chinese state narratives.

Agriculture Minister Chen Chien-ji previously warned lawmakers in October that, without intervention, macaques could expand across Taiwan “within the next five years.”

According to the city, the error originated from a 29-year-old research assistant who altered testing instrument settings.

The detained workers revealed that one of their colleagues, another Indonesian worker, was hiding inside the plant’s -6°C freezer. Then the cops were told that another migrant worker, a man from mainland China, was still hiding inside the freezer.

In total, 11 suspects were detained, and police seized seven environmental-service trucks (環保車), one heavy truck, and one passenger car linked to the dumping operation.

Statistics show older drivers are involved in significant numbers of accidents, especially with pedestrians/scooters. For example, drivers 70+ had higher incidents of “pedestrian or passenger error” attributed to them per 100,000 population (47 for 70+ vs. 11 for 18-29) in one breakdown.

Authorities believe a Tainan-based waste-removal operator hauled garbage to transfer stations in Gangshan (岡山) and Yanchao (燕巢), before sending other vehicles—likely with GPS disabled or switched to non-tracked trucks—to dump it near Moon World.

By Eryk Michael Smith Images via Kaoshiung City Government KAOHSIUNG — The Environmental Protection Bureau (EPB) has launched a criminal investigation after…

This episode is different from the significantly edited on available on the official Formosa Files podcast, where we try to adhere to the mostly non-political stances. This video, however, has no restrictions and is the full one-hour, almost unedited version of Eryk Michael Smith’s chat with Ben Sando.