The disappearing ho-yuan: A small compound covering 600 ping (one ping being about 36 square feet) in the suburbs of the small city of Yuanlin was finally sold under an offer of NT $ 50 million (US $ 2 million), with two of the three households in the extended family living there voting to sell and only one voting against.
消失中的老合院位於員林市郊一座佔地六百坪的小合院，最近也在五千萬元的行情下，兩房對一房，決定賣給建設公司。