The Taiwan High Court handed down a 14-year prison sentence Thursday on former Miaoli County Magistrate and Kuomintang (KMT) legislator Ho Chih-hui, who is at large, for corruption and breach of trust.

Four people were indicted by the Miaoli District Prosecutors Office on charges of violating the Health Food Control Act after they were found selling fake health foods and running TV ads to attract customers.

The driver of a tour bus was killed and seven of its passengers injured after the vehicle hit a truck from behind on a highway yesterday, police said.

The 2011 Taiwan Lantern Festival, which is being held in the northern Taiwan county of Miaoli, has attracted 3.35 million visitors since the event opened on Feb. 10, the county government announced yesterday.

Two lives were lost in a road accident in Miaoli County on Sunday. The victim Fu Pei-ling, who was eight months pregnant, was riding her scooter on her way back after bringing lunch to her husband when her motorbike was hit by an automobile, killing her and her baby on the spot. The family is in mourning.

Chuang Dang-shu, father of a premature baby girl that died only one day after her birth inside an incubator at a clinic in Miaoli County, accused the doctors of “fooling him” and said that his baby daughter was “baked to death.”

A premature baby girl died only one day after her birth inside an incubator in a Miaoli County obstetrics and gynecology clinic yesterday. Prosecutors were investigating whether overheating of the machine caused her death.

Faculty and students at Yu Da University in Miaoli County were left hungry or to scramble outside campus for lunch after the school's cafeteria food provider abruptly shut down, with the owners unreachable and reportedly folding its business without any warning, local media reported yesterday.

Miaoli County has received an international award for its efforts over the last three years to promote a program of healthy eating.

A Miaoli County woman whose car was towed yesterday for illegal parking tried to pay her traffic fine of NT$700 in NT$1 coins in a bizarre scenario that escalated when she refused to count the coins for the officer.