Taipei  - An elderly man in the southern Taiwan city of Kaohsiung has fallen prey to fraudulent lottery scams 11 times in two years, police said Wednesday.

The 66-year-old man, identified by his family name Chang, believed it was true every time he received notification that he had won a big lottery prize, police said.

"He has been cheated 11 times and swindled out of 3.45 million Taiwan dollars (100,000 US) in the past two years," said Chang Chin-lan, spokeswoman of the police anti-fraud hotline.

Taipei  - A museum in Taiwan has apologised and recalled 3,000 copies of a visitor brochure after a string of mistranslations - including referring to "adultery" when it meant "adulthood."

The National Museum of Prehistory, in Taitung, southeast Taiwan, made the apology on Tuesday after a lawmaker pointed out several mistakes in the English brochure for the museum's exhibition on aborigines.

The brochure says that facial tattoo is the symbol of adultery for aborigines, when it in fact means adulthood.

Taipei - Tibetans in Taiwan held demonstrations and rallies on Tuesday to mark the 50th anniversary of China's 1959 occupation of Tibet.

Two Taiwan cities and one county have declared March 10 as "Tibet Day" as a protest to commemorate the Dalai Lama's fleeing Tibet to seek exile in India, as the Tibet Day.

The three places are Kaohsiung City, Pingtung County and Tainan City.

On Tuesday morning, Tibetan exiles and their supporters held a rally in the Cental Park in Kaohsiung, south Taiwan.

Taipei  - A Taiwanese man who killed a landlord and seriously injured the victim's wife and son claimed his deed was a copycat of the random killing plot of a Japanese comic book, police said Tuesday.

Huang Fu-kang, 35, was arrested Monday night by police at a hospital in Taipei for allegedly killing a man he randomly picked from a local apartment rental website, police said.

Taipei - Taiwan on Monday vowed to revive baseball following humiliating defeats by South Korea and China in the first round of the second World Baseball Classic.

Premier Liu Chao-shiuan has called for a report from Sports Minister Tai Hsiang-ling on Taiwan's 9-0 defeat to South Korea Friday and the 4-1 loss to China Saturday.

As a result of the defeats Taiwan failed to advance to the second round of the 16-nation tournament.