A Taiwanese museum and an amusement park on Friday dropped their plan to use braids of 320,000 pieces of human hair to lift an elephant, in an attempt to create a new Guinness World Record. The feat was forfeited after several animal rights groups protested the act saying it could scare the animal and was cruel. The National Science and Technology Museum and the Wan-Pi World amusement park in south Taiwan had planned to lift an elephant chained in a wooden frame with five 40-centimeter ropes made of human hair. The elephant, together with the wooden frame, would have weighed about 7. 5 tons.

In the strangest ever union, a pig and her better half "tied the knot" in a special ceremony with well-wishers showering their blessings on the couple at a small town in northeastern Taiwan. The "bridegroom," - a 40 pound boar, and his "bride," just a few pounds lighter entered their marital bliss in a lavish ceremony presided over by local magistrate Lu Kuo-hwa on Monday.

Because no one has an exact address for Santa Claus children send their letters to several addresses, including the North Pole. But for the past 80 years many children from around the world have sent their wish lists to Santa Claus, In. , where area residents open, read and respond to each letter. The town only sends out about 15,000 letters from Santa a year now, down from a high of 3 million in the 1930's. That is because other places now offer a similar service.

A Taiwanese model who made fun of her country's public toilets and those who use them has been barraged with criticism on the Internet, with Chinese Web users demanding a public apology. Jessy Meng joked around about the toilet situation of the Taiwan talk show "Red Storm" last week, saying, "Many mainland toilets don't have doors and even when they do, most people don't even shut the door!"

Efforts to stop construction of a nuclear power station has led a Taiwanese conservation group to stage a nude protest. The protest, called "Rather Nude than Nuke," will be set on Monday at the plant location at Funlung beach in northern Keelung county. "We demand the government stop building the Fourth Nuclear Power Plant to preserve the Fulung beach," said Ho Tsung-hsun, secretary general of the Taiwan Enviromental Protection Union.