Yahoo! Brings in Lap Dancers for Taiwan Hack Day

Tech Giant Yahoo covering their tracks and writing up hasty apologizes after their recent Taiwan Hack Day event featured a lap dancing number that resulted in a spate of bad publicity. Hack Day…

Locals Afraid Indonesian President is a Jinx

Unlike his peers who fend off corruption charges and sex scandals, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, the Indonesian president has been accused of being a jinx. The 60 year old leader has been blamed for a num…

Taiwan City’s Cash-for-Crappers Program

Pick it up, weigh it, and bring it in—how hard can that be? Well, when the “it” is dog poop, that process may not sound too appealing. But the city of Taichung is willing to make it worth your w…

Taiwan’s Spooky Pod Resort

Haunted vacation resort or failed business venture? Those are the most common theories surrounding the dilapidated San-Zhi pod village, a building complex consisting of disc-shaped apartments of varyi…

Thailand Police Don Smiley Masks: Ha, Ha… Wha?

In Bangkok, Thailand, motorcycle policemen patrol the city wearing anti-pollution masks with bright red grins painted upon them. In an odd attempt at improving public relations between the police a…

Human Bones Add “Spirit” to Taiwanese Swords

Kuo Chang-hsi’s earliest attempts at swordmaking where met with failure, and he’s not afraid to tell you why: He forgot to “throw a man into the furnace.” While Kuo doesn’t mean that in a…

Taiwan’s Hello Kitty Maternity Hospital

Hello Kitty is just about everywhere you look these days, but who would have imagined it would become the theme of a maternity hospital in Taiwan? Images of the ubiquitous, mouthless kitty are stamped…

Indonesia Offers Some Tasty Poo

Nothing spells 'name fail' better than a bad combination of product and company name. Stik Tahu by Poo is one such example. This snack from Indonesia might mean finger-licking good in the local lin…

Thai Artist Shares Little Slices Of Life

Thai artist Kittiwat Unarrom has found a way to give one of the world’s most basic food items an entirely different look, and it’s not pretty. Prepare to have your understanding of artistic good t…

Rare Tiger Slaughtered—Right in the Zoo!

With life in the wild becoming increasingly hazardous for the rare Sumatran tiger, the people at the Taman Rimba Zoo thought they could protect at least this one specimen, which was part of their own …

Big Money on the Wing in Taiwan

Did it ever occur to you that that pigeon passing overhead might be working for a living? And that he might well be earning more than you do? If you’re in Taiwan, it’s a very real possibility. …

Pint-Size People Pull Pints in Manila

If there’s one thing you can say about Jim Turner’s bar, it’s that it’s always short-staffed. For more than 35 years, the Manila bar called Hobbit House (so successful it’s now spawned a sec…

When a Lashing is Not Enough

Malaysia, a country known for its somewhat unusual punishments, found a new contributor to its claim to fame when a Langkawian English teacher forced a student to smoke 2 packs of cigarettes in just t…

Russian Man Screams To Victory In Thailand

It’s usually safe to assume that screaming at the top of your voice isn’t a good way to make things any better. For 33-year-old Sergey Savelyev, however, an ear-splitting 116.8-decibel yell recent…