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.

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Taipei  - Former banker Jeffrey Koo Jr testified Wednesday that his uncle had given the wife of Taiwan's former president Chen Shui-bian 400 million Taiwan dollars
(11.8 million US dollars) through an associate as a reward for sealing a lucrative land deal.

The uncle, Koo Cheng-yun, and his associate did not name the ex-president as the recipient of the funds when they testified at Chen's trial on corruption charges.