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Taipei, Feb. 24 (CNA) Xiang Xin (向心), executive director of Hong Kong-based China Innovation Investment, and his wife Kung Ching (龔青) who is a company alternate director, were acquitted of money laundering charges by Taipei District Court on Thursday after having been barred from leaving Taiwan since November 2019.

Taipei, Feb. 23 (CNA) The Supreme Court upheld Wednesday the life sentence handed down to Chen Po-chien (陳伯謙), who was convicted of the rape, murder and dismemberment of a young woman on downtown Taipei's Huashan Grassland near Huashan 1914 Creative Park in 2018.

Taipei, Feb. 23 (CNA) The iPMx Molecular Rapid Test System developed by the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) to provide an accurate and efficient method for detecting the COVID-19 virus has received its first overseas order from Japan, the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) said Wednesday.

Taipei, Feb. 22 (CNA) Former SET TV host Lee Tian-yi (李天怡) was released on bail of NT$500,000 (US$17,985) Tuesday after being questioned the previous night over suspected profiteering and breach of faith in an animal importation case.

Taipei, Feb. 22 (CNA) The hourly pay of male wage earners in Taiwan last year averaged NT$361 (US$13), while that of female workers was NT$304, a gap of 15.8 percent, the Ministry of Labor (MOL) reported on Tuesday as it announced Feb. 27 as equal pay day in 2022.

Taipei, Feb. 22 (CNA) Hong Kong actor and radio host Chapman To (杜汶澤) revealed on Tuesday that he had naturalized as a Taiwanese citizen and praised President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) and the sea goddess Mazu as Taiwan's two "hottest females" because "both of them protect Taiwan."

Taipei, Feb. 21 (CNA) Taiwan will now allow imports of Japanese food and agricultural products from areas affected by the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, according to an official notice issued by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Monday.

Taipei, Feb. 21 (CNA) Taiwan's export orders in January set a new high, growing 11.7 percent year-on-year to reach US$58.87 billion and marking a 23rd consecutive monthly rise, the Ministry of Economic Affairs said Monday.

Ankara, Feb. 20 (CNA) A "Taiwan friendship forest" was inaugurated in Kahramanmaras Province, southeastern Turkey with the planting of 30,000 seedlings on Sunday to symbolize the Taiwan-Turkey partnership in the fight against global warming.

Taipei, Feb. 17 (CNA) A military serviceman who allegedly killed his two sons at their home in Taichung before jumping out of the building in a suicide attempt on Sunday died on Thursday after being in a coma for four days, according to China Medical University Hospital.