Ilan, July 4 (CNA) The 50-day Ilan International Children's Folklore and Folkgame Festival opened Saturday at the Dongshan River Water Park, welcoming more than 16,000 visitors on the first day.

The pilot of a passenger plane that crashed in Taiwan killing 43 people shut down the aircraft's only working engine, exclaiming: "Wow, pulled back wrong throttle," seconds before the disaster.

Taipei, July 4 (CNA) The Taiwan Medical Association and the Japan Medical Association will sign a memorandum of emergency mutual support in case of disasters, enabling medical personnel to give low-level medical treatments in each other's country under the supervision of the colleagues of the hosting country.

On the factory floor at the old automotive plant in Dacun Township. The massive ruins of the Yǔtián Automotive Factory 羽田汽車工廠 are located on the Dayeh University campus in Dàcūn 大村, Changhua 彰化. There are four main buildings, each approximately 360 meters in length and 90 meters across for an estimated total of 32,500 square meters apiece. Outside of the Changhua Coastal Industrial Park 彰化濱海工業區 in Lukang 鹿港 (which opened in 1995) these buildings are probably the largest in the…

An old paper factory in Taiwan houses a series of "atmospheric" installations.