Year of the Tiger is approaching

A Taiwanese artist has created the world's smallest tiger sculpture, tiny enough to pass through the eye of a needle.

Chen Forng-shean carved the animal, made of artificial resin and measuring just a millimetre in height, to mark the Year of the Tiger, which begins on February 14.

"The toughest part was painting the tiger's tongue red," the amateur artist, who works for the central bank, said.

Mr Chen, who has devoted himself to miniature sculpture for the past 30 years, said it took him four hours a day for three months to finish the work.

Excerpt from: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/01/19/2796037.htm

Lin Ping, September 2009

Buddha-shaped pears

Take a look at this video of a farmer from the Northern Chinese province of Heibei who has grown pears in the shape of Buddha, a process that took him almost six years to perfect:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/video/2009/09/24/2694889.htm

Monster baby!

An Indonesian woman has given birth to an 8.7-kilogram baby boy, measuring 62 centimetres in length.

Excerpt from:

http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/world/6094849/indonesian-woman-gives-birth-to-8-7-kilo-boy/

Red dust storm in Sydney, Australia

Sydneysiders are being warned that a huge dust cloud will continue to affect the city through the day, after they woke to an eerie red dawn this morning.

The huge dust storm which has settled over the city and much of New South Wales was carried east overnight by gale-force winds of up to 100kph.

Excerpt from:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/09/23/2693643.htm

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