Hsinchu's city government is under fire for handing out glossy leaflets full of posed photos of Mayor Kao Hung-an, with councillors calling it self-promotion dressed up as public service information.

• The three-fold leaflets, given out at city hall, district offices and events, are billed as service guides but are mostly staged shots of the mayor.
• One page says pro baseball returns to the city stadium next year, even though the renovation has not passed final inspection.
• The team that was supposed to play there already tore up its contract and left, and no replacement has been found.
• Councillors Yang Ling-yi and Liu Yen-ling say the leaflet advertises failure rather than achievement, and point to central government subsidies clawed back over slow progress.
• City hall says inspection wraps up at the end of August, a new city baseball team has been formed, and 36,000 leaflets have gone out as ordinary public information.

Outlook: Expect the stadium's inspection and opening timetable to stay a political flashpoint into the final quarter of the year.