http://www.weirdasianews.com Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:23:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://www.weirdasianews.com/2009/10/27/yahoo-brings-lap-dancers-taiwan-hack-day/ http://www.weirdasianews.com/2009/10/27/yahoo-brings-lap-dancers-taiwan-hack-day/#comments Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:08:24 +0000 shinigami http://www.weirdasianews.com/?p=10680

Taiwan Zoo Faces Serious Sex Issues

Child’s Toy brings panic to entire city

Big Money on the Wing in Taiwan

]]> http://www.weirdasianews.com/2009/10/27/yahoo-brings-lap-dancers-taiwan-hack-day/feed/ 5 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, which was hosted on 17-18th October, is a much-hyped about affair where developers and coders mingled to talk about emerging trends in the [...] Related posts:

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http://www.weirdasianews.com/2009/09/21/human-bones-add-spirit-taiwanese-swords/ http://www.weirdasianews.com/2009/09/21/human-bones-add-spirit-taiwanese-swords/#comments Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:17:26 +0000 DanBing http://www.weirdasianews.com/?p=7758

Chinese Find Dinosaurs Bones… and Eat Them

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]]> http://www.weirdasianews.com/2009/09/21/human-bones-add-spirit-taiwanese-swords/feed/ 3 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 precisely literal sense, it’s not a mere figure of speech, either. As Taiwan’s last known practitioner of the traditional art of Chinese [...] Related posts:

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http://www.weirdasianews.com/2009/09/12/taiwans-kitty-maternity-hospital/ http://www.weirdasianews.com/2009/09/12/taiwans-kitty-maternity-hospital/#comments Sat, 12 Sep 2009 15:18:15 +0000 MDeeDubroff http://www.weirdasianews.com/?p=7501

Nothing Says Douche, Like Hello Kitty

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Hello Kitty: The Funny, The Weird, And The Horrifying

]]> http://www.weirdasianews.com/2009/09/12/taiwans-kitty-maternity-hospital/feed/ 11 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 onto everything from nursing staff lapels to birth certificates. The world’s first and only Hello Kitty-themed maternity hospital in Yuanlin, Taiwan, was [...] Related posts:

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Man risks life and dignity for love

Real Life Gundam: Japanese Robot Suit (HAL)

Artist Uses Chopsticks to Demonstrate Waste

]]> http://www.weirdasianews.com/2009/09/09/thai-artist-shares-slices-life/feed/ 14 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 taste completely redefined. No, this picture wasn’t taken in a serial killer’s basement. Believe it or not, those graphic, gory body parts [...] Related posts:

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http://www.weirdasianews.com/2009/08/13/russian-man-screams-victory-thailand/ http://www.weirdasianews.com/2009/08/13/russian-man-screams-victory-thailand/#comments Thu, 13 Aug 2009 14:00:43 +0000 Brandt http://www.weirdasianews.com/?p=6087

Kaba Kick: Russian Roulette for Kids!

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]]> http://www.weirdasianews.com/2009/08/13/russian-man-screams-victory-thailand/feed/ 5 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 recently made him richer by 30,000 baht (about $900 USD). The occasion for all the shouting was a screaming contest held at a shopping center [...] Related posts:

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