The news was a long while back, apparently around 2004 (!). Here’s a Taipei Times article about it:
I was sure we had a thread, but I can’t find it now - just a couple of posts:
Chinese-language article linked to in the second post:
Unfortunately the China Post article that @Icon links to in the first post is dead. What on earth happened to the China Post website?! Does it even have a search function anymore? I wound up searching using the “site:chinapost.nownews.com” command, but I couldn’t find the article Icon linked to. Ditto Taipei Times, actually. Searching for Taiwan news seems weird.