TAIPEI - A SERIES of earthquakes including one with a magnitude of 5.6 rocked Taiwan on Sunday, the Seismology Centre said, but there were no immediate reports of casualties or damage.

TAIPEI - TAIWAN'S President Ma Ying-jeou is scheduled to leave for Central America on Monday, his second visit to the region in a month, to shore up ties with allies there, his spokesman said on Sunday.

SHANGHAI - A BRAWL at a toy factory in China ended with two dead and 60 in hospital after a dispute flared between Han Chinese and Uighur workers from the Muslim Xinjiang region, media reported on Sunday.

More than 400 police were called to break up the fight involving hundreds of people at the factory in Shaoguan, in the southern province of Guangdong, early on Friday, the official Xinhua news agency reported, citing local authorities.