Taiwan's dark village sees the light (BBC)

By Caroline Gluck
BBC News, Hualien county

High-tech Taiwan is one of the world's most wired societies and one of the globe's largest economies.

So it is something of a surprise to discover that there is still one place where people live - along Taiwan's sparsely-populated east coast - which is not connected to the electricity grid and has no access to power.

It is an aboriginal settlement, known locally as the Dark Village, nestled in a valley in Hualien county.

Legal disputes over the land are the main reason the site never got connected to the mains grid.
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But today the local people - members of the Amis tribe, one of Taiwan's 13 officially-recognised aboriginal groups - are trying to reassert their ancestral land claims.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6987611.stm