Weird Asia News http://www.weirdasianews.com Weird, Strange, and Odd stories, pictures, and news articles. So funny, hilarious, and wild you will just have to come back again and again. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:00:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 38.596199-90.002275http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/http://www.weirdasianews.comhttp://www.weirdasianews.com/images2/wan-rssimage.jpgWeird Asia NewsWeirdAsiaNewshttp://feedburner.google.comWith daily updates we bring you more laughs than you can handle. Check back often. Palm-Reading Tests Banned for Chinese Children http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WeirdAsiaNews/~3/YWKl1A3TCko/ http://www.weirdasianews.com/2012/02/13/palmreading-tests-banned-chinese-children/#comments Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:00:45 +0000 MDeeDubroff http://www.weirdasianews.com/?p=42364 <p><a href="http://www.weirdasianews.com/2012/02/13/palmreading-tests-banned-chinese-children/" title="Palm-Reading Tests Banned for Chinese Children"><img src="http://www.weirdasianews.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/palm-2-100x100.jpg" alt="Palm-Reading Tests Banned for Chinese Children" /></a></p>The ancient divination arts of fortune telling and palm reading have tenuous holds on modern Chinese life. Although deeply embedded in Chinese traditions, modern leaders have discouraged palm reading, calling it superstition and even have punished those devotees who are determined to practice it. In Taiyuan, capital of the northern Shanxi province, three kindergartens were [...]<div class="relatedPosts"> <h3 class="blackHeader">Related posts:</h3> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.weirdasianews.com/2012/02/08/palmreading-chinese-schools-rage/" rel="bookmark">Palm-reading in Chinese Schools Becoming All the Rage</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.weirdasianews.com/2011/01/09/antimyopia-devices-shortsighted-chinese-children/" rel="bookmark">Anti-Myopia Devices For Short-Sighted Chinese Children</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.weirdasianews.com/2011/04/12/timetravel-movies-banned-china/" rel="bookmark">Time-Travel Movies Banned in China</a></li> </ul> </div> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/jMzVU5OS7JNIq2bmCLxE4hrZYEU/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/jMzVU5OS7JNIq2bmCLxE4hrZYEU/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/jMzVU5OS7JNIq2bmCLxE4hrZYEU/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/jMzVU5OS7JNIq2bmCLxE4hrZYEU/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WeirdAsiaNews?a=YWKl1A3TCko:2iictBG64hc:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WeirdAsiaNews?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WeirdAsiaNews?a=YWKl1A3TCko:2iictBG64hc:I9og5sOYxJI"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WeirdAsiaNews?d=I9og5sOYxJI" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WeirdAsiaNews?a=YWKl1A3TCko:2iictBG64hc:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WeirdAsiaNews?i=YWKl1A3TCko:2iictBG64hc:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WeirdAsiaNews?a=YWKl1A3TCko:2iictBG64hc:QXVau8BzmBE"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WeirdAsiaNews?d=QXVau8BzmBE" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WeirdAsiaNews?a=YWKl1A3TCko:2iictBG64hc:6mgevgTXIkI"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WeirdAsiaNews?i=YWKl1A3TCko:2iictBG64hc:6mgevgTXIkI" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/WeirdAsiaNews/~4/YWKl1A3TCko" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.weirdasianews.com/2012/02/13/palmreading-tests-banned-chinese-children/feed/ 0

Palm-Reading Tests Banned for Chinese Children

The ancient divination arts of fortune telling and palm reading have tenuous holds on modern Chinese life. Although deeply embedded in Chinese traditions, modern leaders have discouraged palm reading, calling it superstition and even have punished those devotees who are determined to practice it. In Taiyuan, capital of the northern Shanxi province, three kindergartens were [...]

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Chinese eBay Offers Fiances for Desperate Single Women

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Thailand Airlifts Condoms to Monsoon Victims

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Students in N. Korea Rock Out to A Ha on the Accordions

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Japanese Emoticons: In a World All Their Own

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