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According to Taiwanese media, a group of National Service reservists from the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) took a photo of themselves having a break during an annual military exercise known as Starlight this year. Little did they expect that their photo would go viral in Taiwanese social media, with Taiwanese netizens criticizing them for being ill disciplined and acting like they were at home.

In Taichung Taiwan today, a 21 year-old man has been arrested for sexually exploiting a 16 year-old Taiwanese girl. The man met the underaged girl 2 years ago and convinced her to prostitute herself for him. Over this time, he made the girl receive up to 1,162 customers for sex, earning the self-styled pimp a total of 2,440,000 Taiwanese dollars.

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According to a Weibo post that is trending on Chinese cyberspace now, a pretty Chinese lady (it is not known if she is PRC or Taiwanese) managed to get a seat in the cockpit of a passenger plane.

At approximately 11pm on Wednesday, rescuers successfully salvaged the cockpit from the ill-fated flight GE-235, which crash landed into the Keelung River after a failed liftoff from Taiwan's Songshan Airport. Divers extracted a headless corpse from the mangled cockpi, bringing the total number of dead up to 32. A remaining 11 passengers remain unaccounted for.

Rescuers have pulled 28 passengers from the wreck, 15 of which had been killed in the crash. Many more are feared dead as 30 passengers are still missing. 31 passengers were reported to be from China.

Regional airline TransAsia has crash landed into the Keelung river in Taipei, Taiwan, after a failed liftoff from Taipei Songshan Airport. News media reported that there were 58 people onboard the ATR72-600 when it crashed. The crash has left at least 10 people injured.

Is it a coincidence that such photos which shows the humility of politicians were spotted by netizens time and time again? Taipei has thousands of scooters on the road at any given time. The photographer who spotted Ko must have been in the right place at the right time.

A family of Chinese tourists stunned staff and customers in the world-renowned Din Tai Fung dumpling restaurant by allowing a three-year-old boy to urinate in a bottle while the parents were eating at a table. The urine splashed on food the family had bought, so they tried to get it replaced for free, but were rejected.

At least 45 people were killed in a plane crash in Taiwan on Wednesday, officials said, with local television reporting the flight had smashed into two houses after an aborted landing. Authorities said Taiwanese airline TransAsia Airways flight GE222, with 58 on board, crashed near Magong airport on the outlying Penghu island after having requested a second attempt to land. Television images showed firefighters working at site of the mangled wreckage and soldiers on the scene.