2011 August 11, Loa Iok-sin, “Activists urge end to ‘divine’ pigs”, in Taipei Times[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on August 17, 2016, Taiwan News, page 2[2]:
The Yimin Festival is a religious festival unique to Taiwan. Some temples, such as the Yimin Temple in Sinpu Township (新埔), Hsinchu County, started holding divine pig contests in recent decades, encouraging believers to offer whole pigs that are as fat as possible for the festival and providing cash awards to those who offered the heaviest pigs.
2014 December, God's Pearls: Every Child Deserves a Home[3], →ISBN, →OCLC, page 19:
At that time, National Taiwan University Hospital needed to follow up a survey done a decade earlier on mental illness in Sinpu. For this job, the hospital needed doctors, social workers and nurses who could speak Hakka, the dialect of the area. Sr. Rosa, who grew up in Chudong, spoke Hakka. So she got the job. When she was working in Sinpu, she would first go to church before going to work, and attended Mass in the convent of the Mercedarian Missionaries of Berriz.
2018 February 9, Richard Saunders, “Off the Beaten Track: Historic Sinpu”, in Taipei Times[4], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 February 2018, Features, page 13[5]:
A notch or two below those in the popularity stakes, but if anything even more interesting, is the town of Sinpu Township (新埔). Despite its name (which means “new village”), Sinpu has a relatively long history, and was already a commercial center during the early nineteenth century.
2021 April 29, “Introduction & Jurisdiction”, in Taiwan Hsinchu District Court[6], archived from the original on 16 June 2021[7]:
2. Chupei Summary Court： Xianzheng 2nd Rd., Zhubei City, Hsinchu County 302, Taiwan (R.O.C.) Located at 202, Chungcheng Road Chutong Township, its jurisdiction covers the five Townships of Chupei, Hukou, Sinfong, Sinpu and Guansi
Hsinchu County officials yesterday pose with children in costumes at a promotion for the county’s Lantern Festival celebration, which is to be held in Sinpu Township on Friday next week.
2025 February 7, “Two dead, 19 injured in fire at fiber factory”, in Taipei Times[10], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on February 08, 2025, Taiwan News, page 3[11]:
A fire broke out at a chemical fiber factory in Hsinchu County in the early hours of yesterday, claiming the lives of two people and injuring 19, according to Far Eastern New Century Corp, which runs the plant. The fire at the plant in Sinpu Township (新埔) was reported at 2:53am yesterday. Although firefighters rushed to scene and the blaze was extinguished at about 3:30am, two lives were lost, the company said.
