Taipei - Taiwan police have arrested a young woman who has stolen nearly 2,000 books from bookstores in the past year to re-sell them on the internet, press reports said Saturday.

Police arrested Fu Shu-chun, 31, in Kaohsiung, south Taiwan, Friday and searched her home - which looked like a library. Fu admitted having stolen nearly 2,000 books from Kaohsiung bookstores and has sold 1,500 of them online, the United Daily News and Liberty Times reported.

Fu said she does not like to read but began to steal books after she was laid off by a factory in early 2008.

Taipei  - A Taiwan newspaper on Saturday refused to apologize for an April Fool's Day prank that claimed two pandas from China were disguised forest bears.

The joke angered the Taipei Zoo, where officials demanded that the English-language Taipei Times run a correction.

"Printing funny, fake stories has a long tradition in Western media. Not only is it funny, it reminds people to read the news with a critical eye," the Times said.

Taipei  - Thailand is luring lovers with a Made in Thailand (MIT) tourist tag that encourages them to conceive a baby while on holiday.

The Thailand Authority of Tourism (TAT) on Friday launched the MIT project to encourage Taiwan couples to go on sightseeing trips and conceive a baby in Thailand.

Under the programme, from now until October 31, if Taiwan couples visit Thailand and the wife conceives there, they have the chance of winning three free return flight tickets.

Taipei - A furious Taipei Zoo on Friday demanded that a newspaper run a correction over an April Fool's Day prank that claimed two pandas from China were disguised forest bears.

"Using their professional knowledge to write this kind of news, it is not funny at all," zoo spokesman Jason King said.

Taipei - Taiwan's Kaohsiung Harbour plans to build a deep-water container terminal to attract the world's largest container ships, a harbour official said Friday.

The terminal would consist of five 17-metre-deep wharves, the deepest wharves among Taiwan ports, Harbour Master Tsai Ting-yi said.

Taipei - Thousands of taxis in Taipei are now equipped with emergency reporting gear following the grisly killing of a taxi driver by five youths earlier this week, a newspaper said Friday.

The Liberty Times said that several radio taxi companies in Taipei have installed the SOS box beside steering wheels, so that drivers can push the button and call for help if attacked.