The son-in-law of John Hsuan, vice chairman emeritus of United Microelectornics Corp. (UMC), died in a motorcycle accident Saturday afternoon. He was 33.

A woman refused to get out of a car for three days until her boyfriend paid to repair the strap of her brand name Gucci bag which he accidentally tore, police in Miaoli County said yesterday.

Construction on a Hakka culture park in northern Taiwan's Miaoli County got under way yesterday and is scheduled to be completed in 2011.

Spanish tenor Jose Carreras thrilled a packed audience of over 50,000 at the Miaoli County Stadium on a warm November evening this year, in the kind of show that is rarely seen in the predominantly agricultural county in north-central Taiwan.

A pregnant mother in Miaoli City did not win the top prize at a local mahjong tournament, but she was more than happy to have a healthy baby girl delivered and settled with the second prize in the competition.

The ruling Kuomintang will start picking a candidate this week to run for the legislative seat vacated by lawmaker Lee E-ting, with his wife Chen Luan-ying as a key contender.

The Taichung branch of the Taiwan High Court upheld yesterday the ruling of the Miaoli District Court to nullify the election of Legislator Lee E-tin of the ruling Kuomintang on grounds that Lee had used vote-buying schemes to win the election in January.

The Miaoli county government has decided to earmark a budget of NT$70 million (US$2.09 million) to allow elementary school students in the northern county to attend free after-school classes from next February, county officials said yesterday.

A swarm of bees attacked a group of mountain hikers in Miaoli County and injured four of them with stings, including one woman victim who lost consciousness.

Miaoli Magistrate Liu Cheng-hung publicly commended a bus driver yesterday, who in the thick of July’s tropical storm Kaimaegi lent a hand to a struggling neighbor.