Taiwan’s Reebok sportswear had launched a marketing campaign on Feb 15 with a group of pants-less female models boarding a subway.
Pro-and anti-government lawmakers in Taiwan exchanged punches and threw rubbish bins at each other on July 8 in another raucous parliament session.
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The Modern Toilet restaurant in Taiwan made international headlines in 2007 with its bizarre toilet theme design and food. I heard from my friends in Taipei that their business is still going strong, amazingly.
How long would you become irritated waiting for a red light to turn green? A traffic light in Kenting, Taiwan, is testing the drivers’ patience with a 500-second stop. Video in Chinese…
The video said that Germans have a tolerance of 60 seconds wait on a red light, while English only 45 seconds. Imagine what happen if these people are visiting Kenting.
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Taiwan’s underworld could not avoid the global economic downturn.
Unlike Japanese Yakuza which can operate their business legally, Taiwan factions can only make their living profit illegally. Their major incomes source were underground banks, protection fees from eight major industry, underground gambling, engineering projects, casino, etc.
However the economic slowdown wave also hit them. Many sidekicks were either sacked or pay cut by their gang master, and many other sidekicks have two jobs at the same time, which are bodyguard and taxi driver.
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