A look at the 10 most-viewed stories on the Taiwan News website in the year 2016
Taiwan News
Date; 2016/12/30
By: Keoni Everington, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
Like much of the world, 2016 has been a dramatic year for Taiwan, with many momentous, tragic, and 
bizarre events taking place. During this year, the readers of Taiwan News have taken great interest in a wide variety of topics, from homicide to hygiene, labor laws to holiday fun, president-elects to Nazis, and typhoons to Tso’s chicken. The following are the top ten most-viewed stories on the Taiwan News website for 2016:
10. Don’t chuck it, flush it: EPA
The Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) said on Dec. 8 that it will launch a campaign to 
encourage people to flush used toilet paper, instead of depositing it in trash cans as is the custom in Taiwan, as part of an effort to improve bathroom hygiene. EPA head Lee Ying-yuan (李應元) said his agency will come up with a campaign to encourage the flushing of toilet paper in three months.
Lu Shiow-yen (盧秀燕) of the opposition Kuomintang noted that Taiwan and China are among the few areas in the world where toilet paper cannot be flushed, which she described as an indicator of being less developed.
9. A four-year-old girl beheaded by a man in Taipei
On the morning of March 28, a four-year-old girl was attacked randomly and beheaded by a 33-year-old 
man surnamed Wang, who was arrested by the police at the crime scene and was said to have medical records at a public psychiatric hospital. The attack occurred at 11 AM in an empty lot located on Huanshan Road in Neihu District, Taipei City. Authorities said that the little girl was attacked by the man while she was riding a strider bike with her mother on the street. The man kept chopping the girl’s neck from the back with a cleaver, and the brutal act caused the girl to die instantly as her head was severed from her body.
He had once sought treatment at a public psychiatric hospital, in 2014, but added that it does not prove he has a mental illness. At the time, the man admitted to taking drugs, but a drug test came up negative.
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