At the onset of rainy season in Southeast Asia, mosquitoes are set to multiply and spread disease. It’s a good thing that Taiwan has its own mosquito-buster! Yuyen Huang is Taiwan’s winner in a national contest that gets participants to kill as many mosquitoes as they can in a month’s time. Huang was able to [...]

Do you sometimes feel that you are living in a fish bowl, where every move you make is being watched? Well, a house in Tokyo has made that scenario a reality. The 914 square-foot, three-storey house is made entirely of glass walls. Architect Sou Fujimoto used modular tables in creating the see-through house. Fujimoto said [...]

They say that Asians have a naturally slim physique. Unfortunately, this is not the case for Dan Dan, an 18-month-old girl who has difficulty walking because of her weight. Dan Dan weighs around 19 kg, (about 41 lbs). Dan Dan’s parents have asked the help of specialists in several hospitals, but even the doctors can’t [...]

This is one of the funniest things I have seen in a while. The video below is for teaching conversational English to Japanese. If learning English is as easy and hilarious, you’d think that more people would be able to learn the language more effectively. Link (1) Related posts: Essential English Learning for Japanese Girls [...]

A British man born in Hong Kong to Taiwanese parents was recently arrested in Bangkok for trying to smuggle out six fetuses covered in gold. Hok Kuen Chow told authorities that he intended to sell them in Taiwan. He said that he was able to buy the fetuses for about US$6,500 from a “dealer.” Their [...]