Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/07/23
By: George Liao,Taiwan News, Staff Writer

(photo courtesy of Yilan County Government)

TAIPEI (Taiwan News)—Is that a cruise ship grounded on a Yilan beach? It looks like it, but it is actually an illegal farmhouse, or rather a beach house, which the county government has ordered to be demolished within three months.

Yilan County has been notorious for illegal farmhouses springing up from paddy fields like bamboo shoots. Now new illegal farmhouses even take the shape of a cruise ship and a giant airplane.

Not long ago members of the public found a giant ship 45 meters long and 30 meters wide grounded on the land of Yongzhen Beach in Zhuangwei Township while scouting Google satellite maps, a CNA report said.    [FULL  STORY]