A 53-year old housewife used her underwear to put out a fire that threatened the family home.

Jenny Marsey said her son and nephew grabbed her size 18 - 20 cotton lingerie from a pile of washing, doused them in water, and threw them over the fire which broke out while they were trying to fry some bread.

A 52-year old man from Wuhan, China had started perspiring green sweat baffling local doctors who to date has failed to diagnose the cause despite numerous testing.

Cheng Shunguo, claims he began perspiring green sweat sometime in the middle of November, though he hastens to add it causes him no discomfort.

Elated by record sales, a Taiwanese lingerie business has asked all its female staff to report for work in their under garments for a day.

Declaring November 21 as Camisole Day in celebration of its record sales, the Audrey Underwear company in Taizhong city, asked its entire female staff of 500 women working in the firm's headquarters to wear nothing but camisoles and underwear.

A pro-democracy group based in Thailand has urged Australians to join a campaign it dubbed as "Panty Power" and flood Myanmar's embassy in Canberra with undergarments.

The Lanna Action for Burma, a group based in the northern Thai city of Chiang Mai, said in a statement, "The Burma military regime is not only brutal but very superstitious. They believe that contact with a woman's panties or sarong can rob them of their power."

Superstition is now playing a key role as the world begins to unite in protest against the recent brutal crackdown in Myanmar. Women have been sending their underwear to Burma or its embassies outside the country as a sign of protest.

Liz Hilton, a supporter of an activist group that started the "Panties for Peace" campaign, said that sending women's undergarments was a strong message in Burmese and in all South East Asian Culture.