Kaohsiung environmental authorities have fined and referred for prosecution a couple and 44 waste clearance companies involved in illegally dumping nearly 14,000 tons of scrap wood on agricultural land in Yongan District.

A woman was sentenced to 17 years and eight months after customs officers found more than 4 kilograms of heroin in her luggage at Kaohsiung International Airport.

The evidence included 1,721 packets made to resemble commercially sold coffee products but containing illicit drugs. Authorities also destroyed 1,307 bags or containers of ketamine, 130 controlled sedative tablets, 592 ketamine-laced cigarettes and 1,391 pieces of drug paraphernalia.

The secretary-general of the Taiwan Macaque Coexistence Promotion Association, said monkeys would continue entering the campus as long as food remained easily accessible. She called for clearer rules limiting exposed food and outdoor eating in areas frequented by macaques.

Taipei police transferred a 37-year-old man to prosecutors after finding his missing girlfriend’s remains near Pingjing Street on Yangmingshan.

Armed police detained 35 people and seized more than 200 suspected drug packets in a raid on a hidden warehouse KTV in Kaohsiung’s Daliao District.

A Kaohsiung court extended the detention of a man charged in a 2024 fatal shooting, citing the risk that he could flee to avoid retaliation and legal liability.

A Kaohsiung court acquitted a woman accused of helping fund a marijuana shipment, finding no proof she knew an NT$8,949 payment was connected to smuggling.

A Tainan court granted NT$30,000 bail to a man accused of releasing more than 100 live cockroaches inside a restaurant in Anping District.

Prosecutors suspect that some printed circuit boards manufactured in China were shipped to Taiwan and relabeled as “Made in Taiwan,” possibly involving document forgery and false product labeling. Unimicron has said it will cooperate with the investigation and that its operations and finances have not been materially affected.