- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Jan 15, 2010 19:40 JST
- Tags: Events, Idol, Mental Illness, Otaku, Records, Rie Kugimiya, Seiyuu, Taiwan, Tsundere

Otaku desperate to meet with tsundere seiyuu queen Rie Kugimiya in her first visit to Taiwan are said to have staked their places in the queue a staggering 25 days prior to her actual arrival.
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Lin I-Chen, or “Eat,” is a Taiwanese artist and illustrator whose spectacular works combine a variety of styles and themes in a manner sure to impress, even going so far as to include some splendid illustrations of men:
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Top Asian micro-blogging service Plurk has apparently been subject to brazen plagiarism by Microsoft China, in a case which raises unsettling questions about the business ethics of both Microsoft and its Chinese developers.
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A conman who duped 20 women into having kinky sex with him by posing as a young man whose father needed sex to stay alive has been arrested. He was also found to have swindled some 6 million dollars from them, and to have blackmailed them with incriminating photos in order to keep them quiet.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Oct 16, 2009 12:50 JST
- Tags: CG, China, Comparison, Eroge, Korea, Moe, Taiwan, Thailand, USA, Visual Novels

Japan is no longer the only country to embrace the visual novel as an artistic and erotic medium; now several other countries have been pursuing their own native developments to varying degrees of success, as can be seen below:
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A survey of 5,000 Japanese reveals that a quarter would rather die in Poseidon’s watery embrace than live in another Asian country.
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The Taiwanese army has apparently adopted Haruhi for use in their recruitment posters…
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A man peacefully relieving himself was shocked to find his most intimate part the subject of an ophidian assault, when a serpent either unexpectedly took fright at his dangling member, or else spied a tasty morsel.
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Martial arts superstar Jackie Chan has outraged lovers of freedom the world over, but especially in Taiwan and Hong Kong, with his galling statement that Taiwan and Hong Kong are “too free” and would benefit from some communist oppression, courtesy of Beijing.
In remarks to the press he asserted that “Taiwan and Hong Kong are too free, they are chaotic. Chinese have to be controlled.”
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Apr 18, 2009 15:18 JST
- Tags: Copyright, Crime, Fraud, Gamania, Law, Lucent Heart, MMORPG, Money, Taiwan

MMORPG Lucent Heart’s operator Gamania has announced its intent to pursue unprecedentedly harsh measures against those who wilfully abused a recent item replication bug on its servers.
As well as terminating their accounts and those of their entire clan, Gamania vows to pursue criminal charges of fraud against the dupers, with guilty offenders possibly facing ten year prison sentences.
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A jilted woman who sought to end her life by dousing herself in petrol and immolating herself publicly was foiled when she neglected to bring a lighter.
She was surprised to find nobody would do her the favor of lending her a lighter, instead calling police to restrain her.
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Fans may revile the Hollywood version of Dragonball, but it is far from the first attempt to adapt the manga; you can compare Hollywood’s live action versions from Korea and Taiwan below.
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