Pushing the limit of pain
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With only a silk ribbon secured around his genitals, diao gung practitioner Wang Hsin-kun is capable of lifting up to 60kg.
PHOTO: CHEN CHENG-CHANG, TAIPEI TIMES
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Tu Chin-sheng leads a class through traditional warm-up chi gung exercises at his studio in Taipei.
PHOTO: CHEN CHENG-CHANG, TAIPEI TIMES
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Wang Hsin-kun stretches before attempting to hoist weights with his genitals.
PHOTO: CHEN CHENG-CHANG, TAIPEI TIMES
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Tu Chin-sheng is a teacher of diao gung and can hang 60kg of weights from his genitals while suspending himself from a chin-up bar.
PHOTO: CHEN CHENG-CHANG, TAIPEI TIMES
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Oil rig teeters after massive blasts
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The P-36 Petrobras oil drilling platform lists yesterday after three explosions. The oil rig, 220km northeast of Rio de Janeiro, caught fire following the explosions, killing one worker and leaving 10 others missing, but no oil spilled into the sea, Petrobas officials reported. They said 175 people were working on the year-old platform.
PHOTO: AFP
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South Taiwan hosts first foreign dignitary
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President Chen Shui-bian welcomed the president of Burkina Faso yesterday morning in Kaohsiung with a military ceremony. This was the first such ceremony conducted by the Navy and held in the south.
PHOTO: CHANG CHUNG-YI, TAIPEI TIMES
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Human rights activists allege ongoing use of torture
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PHOTO: CHEN CHENG-CHANG, TAIPEI TIMES
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PHOTO: CHIANG YING-YING, TAIPEI TIMES
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