Friday, August 16, 2013

Late Night ignoring Asia

I guess the fish out of water joke is out


There’s just something so engaging about castles, princesses, and fairies. Then there are mermaids, whose magical nature draws all sorts of fans.
Welcome to the Philippine Mermaid Swimming Academy in Manila.
The school offers 40 dollars’ worth of a two-hour make-believe sessions in which students wear mono-tails to look, swim and perform underwater tricks like mermaids do.
Professional divers and swimmers coach students in making bubble rings, as well as doing dolphin kicks and handstands.
Instructor Anabelle Jimenez highlights the beauty, grace and the adventure closely associated with mermaids. These qualities, she points out, draw the interest of kids and young adults alike.
Don't even go there with the sushi jokes




Who's watching you.  Who are calling

Police have arrested a Tokyo man who made 28,000 prank phone calls to emergency number 110.
According to police, Teruo Nozaki, 44, a part-time convenience store worker, made the hoax calls from his cell phone from January 2012 until June this year, NTV reported.
Police said that Nozaki sometimes called 110 up to 1,500 times a day and when someone answered, he would immediately hang up.
Nozaki was quoted by police as saying “I did it because I was irritated by the fact that I was always watched by police,” NTV reported.





What you did you say?


A U.S. appeals court in New York Thursday rejected a defamation lawsuit filed by Dongguk University against Yale University, ruling that 
the Ivy League college did not intentionally damage the reputation of the school in Seoul.

Dongguk hired Shin Jeong-ah as its art history professor in September 2005 based on a fax from Yale which wrongly confirmed that she had earned a doctorate from the school the same year.

Controversy erupted two years later when Dongguk discovered that Shin might have plagiarized her dissertation and emailed an inquiry to a Yale librarian, who said the Ivy League school had no record of Shin’s dissertation, the appeals court said. Other administrators confirmed she never obtained a degree, and Shin resigned from Dongguk in June 2007.
  
Liar 











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