Suspended Hsinchu Mayor Ann Kao sentenced for 'malicious accusation'

Ann Kao Hung-an (高虹安), the currently suspended Hsinchu mayor, was sentenced to a 10-month jail term Wednesday for making malicious accusations against a U.S.-based scholar who said she had committed plagiarism in her Ph.D. thesis.

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