Entries for the ‘Taiwan’ Category

Stranded Whales

Was reading my local forum (New Zealand) today and pictures of 20 odd whales died stranded on a beach was posted. They looked like a group of pilot whales, certainly not a sight you would like to see. Local authorities had no idea it happened so they all died well before the poster found out.

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Hurriance Morakot

Came across a news broadcast of a hotel falling into raging water earlier and after a brief read on the internet it was due to the recent hurricane Morakot in Asia. It looked pretty amazing!
via stuff.co.nz
A typhoon has pummeled China’s eastern coast, toppling houses, flooding villages and forcing nearly a million people to flee to [...]

Fake Chiling Advertisments

Image of Taiwan’s supermodel and actress Chiling (LIN ZHI LING) has recently been illegally used in a Chinese ad for abortion. Through her assistant and manager she has responded that she will be taking legal action against the Chinese company responsible. This is not the first time Chiling’s image has been illegally used in advertisements. [...]

When a bull runs wild

The annual bull fighting event in the city of Gaoan supposedly began more than a hundred years before the Spanish counterpart. In yesterday’s event some people nearly got fatally injured. An angry bull suddenly took a change in direction and headed for the gathering crowds. In a coincidence the bull headed straight for a group [...]

Chinese food is bad

The well known English food magazine “Restaurant” has recently published the Top 50 restaurants in the world. Spain’s El Bulli was crowned for the 4th time in a row. And the rest of the Top 10 concludes with English, French,American and Spanish restaurants. Most of the Top 50 are European restaurants (mainly French). From Asia [...]

The Red Bull with Cocaine?

In Taiwan, half a million cans of Red Bull was confiscated from a distributor because cocaine was detected in trace amounts. This is the first time a “Level 1″ drug was detected inside imported drinking products.
Apparently Red Bull has been on the Taiwanese market since 2005, but due to the pricing it was rather [...]