Eight international wood carving artists have joined six of their Taiwanese counterparts in the Sanyi International Wood Carving Camp, which opened yesterday at the West Lake Resortopia in Miaoli County, as part of the Sanyi International Woodcarving Art Festival.

Residents of Miaoli County’s Dahu Village, a hilly region notoriously redolent of robber barons, requested “a dog for every police station” to nab local junkies and to cut a long string of water pump thefts.

A rock avalanche collided with a police officer’s vehicle yesterday afternoon at Miaoli County’s Taian Township, on the country road between Dahu and the hot springs recreational area.

Over 70 residences in Miaoli saw their household electricity supplies cut off Saturday as a result of a maintenance mishap, the local Apple Daily reported.

The Miaoli County Government announced yesterday the establishment of a groundbreaking company that will engage in a “carbon trading” business to generate revenues while helping deal with the global warming problem.

“I support you,” Terry Gou, board chairman of the Hon Hai Precision Corp., encouraged the beleaguered magistrate of Miaoli Liu Cheng-hung yesterday.

Premier Liu Chao-schiuan said yesterday no subsidy will be awarded the Miaoli county government that is planning to open a Ma Ying-jeou memorial museum.

Magistrate of Miaoli Liu Cheng-hung has come under fire for trying to build a Ma Ying-jeou memorial in a small village in his central Taiwan county, where the majority are Hakka.

Miaoli County Magistrate Liu Cheng-hung denied yesterday wooing President Ma Ying-jeou with the first museum retracing the president’s path to the presidency to be set up in Tongsiao Township, northwest Taiwan.

The Supreme Court handed down the final verdict on Monday, sentencing to life a motorist for killing his friend whom he had suspected of stealing NT$700.