It is not the Harry Potter kind of witchcraft, but it's equally spellbinding, say elders in Taiwan's Paiwan tribe.

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A Taiwanese teenager has been arrested after chopping off his father's hands, allegedly to avenge years of physical abuse, a report said on Tuesday.

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Taiwan's former President Chen Shui-bian has been sentenced to life in prison after being found guilty of corruption by a court in Taipei.

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Ethical fabric isn't restricted to hemp and bamboo. An innovative range of sportswear is now being made out of old coffee grounds

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Taiwan began a process of legalising prostitution Wednesday making the island the latest place in the world to decriminalise the world's oldest profession.

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Taiwanese authorities say they have confiscated nearly 18,000 cases of Red Bull energy drinks containing slight traces of cocaine and imported from Austria.

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The island of Taiwan has just approved new legislation which effectively bans the use of P2P technology to facilitate the distribution of copyrighted works online. The legislation also requires ISPs to start a '3 strikes' regime for file-sharers.

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Taiwan's parliament has voted to legalise gambling on outlying islands, in hopes of boosting the economy and attracting tourists.

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A Taiwanese pastor has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for raping 13 women in his congregation over the course of more than two years, according to a report.

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A student in Taiwan has died right after winning an eating contest at a university campus, apparently choking on Chinese steamed buns filled with cheese and eggs.

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Alternative methods of radically increasing the performance of CPUs, such as spintronics, wouldn't find their way into production for at least another 10 years, Intel said this week in Taiwan.

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British sweet maker Cadbury has recalled its China-made chocolates from shelves in Australia, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, the company said - the latest fallout from the toxic milk scandal.

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A company is now selling what it calls the "world's cheapest laptop," which at US$130, is not a bad deal if you can bear some hardware limitations.

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Taiwan's latest bid to join the The World Health Organisation (WHO) has been rejected.

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AOL launched a Chinese-language portal focused on Taiwan Sunday, part of its bid to increase the number of international AOL portals to 30 by the end of this year.

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Chinese President Hu Jintao has begun a historic meeting with Taiwan's Vice-President-elect, Vincent Siew. The meeting is the highest-level contact between the two sides since the post-civil war split in 1949.

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The head of Taiwan-based personal computer maker Acer, Gianfranco Lanci, hit out at Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system, saying that the "entire industry" was disappointed by it.

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Attention, hard disk drives. Your younger sibling, the solid state drive (SSD), is growing in leaps and bounds, and new products now being shown at the Computex computer trade show in Taiwan are leading some observers to wonder whether your days are numbered.

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