Over the last year and a half we have tried to bring you the weirdest and most offbeat news, stories, pictures, and videos from all over Asia.

Thanks to all your support we have grown at an amazing rate with over 500,000 visitors reading our stories per month and still growing. We have been included in Google News, Topix, and most recently been invited into the Yahoo Buzz program.

We recently launched our Weird Asia News Redesign Contest and looking forward to receiving some good designs to help us put a new face on the site as we continue to grow. The new design will help to showcase more material and make it easier to find the best news we have to offer.

With this being our 1,000 post, we would like to share 5 of our most popular articles for your enjoyment.

1. Singapore Superhero: Batman Bin Suparman – Probably one of the funniest names we have seen, Batman Bin Suparman became instantly famous accross the web. This to date has been our most popular article.

2. Japanese Banquet of Cannibalism – Japan has just invented another way of eating, where a “body” is made from food and placed on an operating table, much as though in a hospital.

3. Man Carves Wife a 6,000 Stair Path in Mountain – Probably one of the most romantic stories ever shared. A couple is forced to run off and live together in the mountains. The man spends 50 years carving a stairway with 6,000 stairs in the side of the mountain so his wife can easily come up and down from their home.

4. Fake Food: A Baby’s Perspective – This poor kid just wants a nice afternoon snack, until he is completely fooled by this fake food display.

5. Weird Asian Martial Arts Weapons – From iron claws and meteor hammers to deer antler blades and emei needles, ancient Martial Arts weapons range greatly in shape and design, yet all have only one purpose – to injure. In the hands of a skilled assassin, even the humble chopsticks can become savage weapons.

These are just 5 of our most popular articles, although there are hundreds of really great articles. Please comment and let us know what your favorite story from Weird Asia News is.

Thank you again for showing your support by voting for our articles in Buzz, Reddit, and Digg and coming back every day to read more Weird Asia News.

By Sun Tzu on 12-06-2008