Weird Asia News

China has been preparing pretty hard for the coming Olympics. They have already banned a large group of troublemakers from leaving Shanghai during the entire event and they also banned all bald and smelly cab drivers.

So just how seriously is China taking safety precautions for the upcoming Olympics?

Serious enough to have set up two separate camouflaged surface-to-air missile stations, with infrared radar systems, less than a mile from the 2008 Olympic venues to help with protection for the coming events.

Of course “made in China”, the “Red Flag-7″ missile systems can take down a target anywhere up to 8 miles away with a 80-90% success rate.

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In Asia contrasting things are very popular; sweet and sour, yin and yang, etc. The Japanese are not immune to this associating of opposites.

In April and May of this year in Himeji, Japan, there was a Confectionery Exposition and a Poop Museum Exhibit going on at the same time, but thankfully in different venues.

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It is every kid’s dream to one day make the coolest tree house and live in it. In Okinawa, Japan, that dream has become one person’s reality… except they made it a restaurant instead of a home.

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