Nantou County's Mingchien Township and Shoutien Temple (受天宮) celebrated the Lantern Festival yesterday by unveiling a giant, peach-shaped sticky rice cake (米糕桃), weighing over 19 tons.

Wuling Farm (武陵農場) has announced that it will only allow 5,000 tourists per day to enter from Feb. 10 to March 5.

Government officials led by the Public Construction Commission (PCC) yesterday sought to evaluate the standard of Nantou County roads in efforts to ensure traffic safety.

Nantou County's animal control authorities are responding inadequately to a commercial breeding facility that keeps meat, pet and lab rabbits in life-threatening conditions, said the Taipei Rabbit Society Association (台北市愛兔協會) yesterday.

An exhibition chronicling the development of Taiwan's railway kicked off Sunday at Taiwan Historica in Nantou, Central Taiwan, and will showcase cherished official memorabilia and some collector's items that are rarely displayed in public.

The annual Sun Moon Lake Swim kicked off yesterday, drawing some 28,000 participants in this year's event. Competitors swam from one end of the lake to the other.

The annual Sun Moon Lake International Swimming Carnival will kick off on Sept. 15, with more than 28,000 swimmers expected to take part to mark the event's 30 anniversary, according to organizers.

A newly constructed sky bridge in Nantou City opened to the public for the first time yesterday, attracted hundreds of tourists who had to wait at least an hour for a tour of the bridge.

A man in Nantou County was indicted by prosecutors yesterday and may face life imprisonment or the death penalty if convicted of murder charges for allegedly driving into a motorcyclist while drunk and then turning back to run over the victim again in early May.

Operators in the well-known Lushan hot springs area in Nantou, central Taiwan, are to be relocated because of the increasing danger of landslides in the environmentally sensitive area, county government officials said Thursday.