Check out this young couple on the Taipei subway: he reads a book while she, um, sleeps on his lap... with a jacket over her head... bobbing up and down. Yeah. Sneaky, naughty, and bookish. Kids these days. ...

There's not much info about this video, posted on YouTube by ThePiXNet yesterday and flagged by Reddit, but the description claims the young man is a study abroad student who doesn't want to return to Taiwan to finish his compulsory military service. Can you blame him? Conscription has been called "prison for the innocent," and since we're talking about China here, let's go ahead and make the comparison wit ...

In this video, a woman in Taipei's Songshan subway station -- whether distracted by a phone call, drunk, or what -- walks off the edge of the platform and appears to make a hand landing on the track. A man from the opposite side sees this and quickly goes in for the rescue, with the help of attendants and other passengers. ...

[caption id="attachment_7043" align="alignnone" width="490" caption="Taiwanese actress Gwei Lun-Mei, Best Actress Award winner for GF*BF"][/caption] The Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival, inaugurated in 1962, is the oldest and arguably most prestigious of China's four major film awards (the mainland's Hundred Flowers Award was also founded in 1962, but it was suspended from 1964 to 1979, for obvious reasons ...

Last September, Liu Shu-jen got the notion, somehow, that David Petraeus, the four-star general who was then still the CIA director, was going to fly to Taiwan to marry her. She transferred, in total, $50,000 to Petraeus's "offshore band accounts," and then found herself in jail after trying to cash 37 fraudulent traveler's checks. As Want China Times tells it: Liu, even from prison, was determined. She sai ...

Here's a guy who, metaphorically, gets his hand caught in the cookie jar. We only wish his hand could've been chopped off (metaphorically, of course). In Kaohsiung, Taiwan on Saturday, a dude crouching on the road leapt up and rolled himself onto the hood of a vehicle he thought was going sufficiently slow enough to not kill him. We imagine this is the conversation that followed: "OWWWwww. Owwwwww. GAWD WIL ...

On Saturday night in Taichung, Taiwan, a drunk man surnamed Zhang wandered onto a busy road, sat down, and passed out. We've seen drunk people on the highways before, but not what happens next. After about four minutes -- a dozen or so cars had zipped by without stopping to help, with only a couple slowing down -- a vehicle ran him over. You can see all of this in the surveillance footage, above. The car th ...

While Japanese and Taiwanese ships continue playing with their super soakers in the South Pacific, netizens have commented that the Taiwanese ships don't shoot very straight or with force. Indeed, in the video above, you'll see that it does look like they're just pissing -- which completely makes sense, since Japan and China are just having a pissing contest at this point. Meanwhile, Time Magazine blares in ...

If you're aiming to fake an injury by jumping in front of a car, make sure the target vehicle doesn't employ a dashboard cam. In Kaohsiung, Taiwan on Friday, a pedestrian flung himself -- in slow motion -- onto the hood of a car, then rolled off and laid on the ground waiting for someone to hand him a bag of gold. The car owner stood over him and, unamused, said, "Don't you know I'm a cop?" We don't know wh ...

In one of Yilan, Taiwan's night markets is a food stall that advertises "free picture with golden python" for those who purchase a meal. Sounds great, right? Two high school students thought so -- until, that is, the two-plus-meter-long snake bit down on one of their noses and slowly began wrapping its body around the boy's neck. The one who was not in mortal danger, meanwhile, giggles uncontrollably while ...

Thunderstorms have been wrecking havoc in Taiwan recently, causing floods, crippling transportation, and opening portals for the return of Loki. Lucky for us, the lightning-thrower dude is on our side. Just don't perch a camera too close to his bolts. This happened recently at Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport. There's a CCTV-4 video via ifeng.com for those in China after the jump.  ...