TAIPEI- A Taiwanese man has been detained for hoarding 300 tons of carrots in what authorities say was a bid to manipulate prices.

Investigators in the southern city of Kaohsiung have been probing fruit and vegetable prices, which have remained high since back-to-back typhoons battered Taiwan last month.

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