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Thursday, February 11, 2010

In The News: Desperation

I was reading the free paper "Today" on the train ride to work today and found some rather interesting news. I'll summarize the articles as I understood them.


Marriage Wreckers for Hire

Husband hires a marriage wrecker to seduce his wife so he can divorce her. This is apparently a thriving industry in Japan. Marriage wrecker introduces himself to wife at a grocery and makes wife fall for him. He is quite good at what he does and gets the job done. Husband, armed with photos of wife and wrecker checking in at a "motel", gets the divorce. Marriage wrecker, unexpectedly, falls in love with wife. Everything blows over and wife discovers the truth. Wife threatens to leave wrecker, wrecker kills wife and later surrenders to the police. Parang teleserye no?

"Rent" a Date

China - Because of the nation's one-child policy, parents only have their one child to ensure that their family line is continued. Youngsters are then pressured into marriage. With the Chinese New Year fast approaching, a quick solution is to rent a date for roughly SGD106.




Another Fad

Hong Kong - It seems that in order to quickly lose weight, people are swallowing ascaris worms. Government doctors have already warned citizens about the risk of doing so. Seriously? 


Source: Today

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