Singapore firm’s sexy, topless women car-washer promotion strategy

October 7th, 2009 LONDON - An Italian casket-making company has come up with a "devilish" calendar, featuring sexy models, to advertise its range of wooden coffins. To make sure that the units are sold in the best manner, the truly Italian- Cofanifunebri bosses decided to drape sexy girls on their products, reports The Sun.

September 30th, 2009 LONDON - A dozen women paraded through Manchester topless to show their support for British troops fighting abroad. The women stunned shoppers, builders and office workers as they marched wearing only tight leather trousers and camouflage body paint across their chests, reports the Sun.

September 28th, 2009 LONDON - A Brit Labour politician has drawn up laws banning topless calendars and Page 3 photos from being displayed in the workplace. Labour's deputy leader Harriet Harman, dubbed Hattie Har-person by critics, claims that it is harassment to put up saucy pics at work.

August 3rd, 2009 KUALA LUMPUR - Korean newscasters, who dropped their layers as part of their news reading, are demanding their salaries for their bare-all efforts. Newscasters of Naked News Korea, the first online news that featured topless female anchors, alleged the company abruptly suspended operations after subscribers complained over lack of change in the news content.

July 15th, 2009 LONDON - If a new study is anything to go by, British men are among the least romantic in the world. A new study by the psychologist Professor Richard Wiseman claims that British men are less likely to make romantic gestures than men from other parts of the world-in fact, they are less likely to pay compliments, be inspired to write love poetry or take their loved ones away for surprise holidays than their foreign counterparts.

July 10th, 2009 KUALA LUMPUR - Critics are demanding that Miss Singapore Rachel Kum be stripped of her title, after offensive pictures of her have surfaced on the Internet. In one of the pictures, Kum is seen simulating oral sex with a birthday cake shaped like an erect penis.

July 8th, 2009 MELBOURNE - A beer ad that allowed children to undress bikini-clad women has been pulled down from cyberspace by the advertising standards watchdog. The Skinny Blonde promotion encouraged users to click on photographs of women, encased in a six-pack, and expose their breasts by increasing the temperature on a digital thermometer.

July 1st, 2009 WASHINGTON - A print advertisement of Burger King's sandwich in Singapore has come under fire because of its "distasteful" and unappetizing references to oral sex. The ad for the "BK Super Seven Incher" shows the "mind-blowing" sandwich near the open mouth of a wide-eyed, red-lipsticked woman accompanied by the suggestive tagline: "It'll blow your mind away." "Fill your desire for something long, juicy and flame-grilled," Fox News quoted the ad as saying further.

June 24th, 2009 MELBOURNE - After being accused of being pervs, workers at the Darwin Waterfront development have shot back with accusations that topless European backpackers deliberately try to grab their attention. They say that they are being distracted from their work by the backpackers who favour the Waterfront's new safe swimming beach and recreational lagoon opened in April.

June 24th, 2009 KUALA LUMPUR - Sexy women are helping car theft syndicates steal amorous businessmen's luxury vehicles, says a report. According to the Harian Metro, during the past six months, about 10 businessmen have lost their cars after being seduced by these women.

June 13th, 2009 LONDON - Colonel Muammar Gaddafi has earned himself praise from hundreds of leading Italian women, after he condemned the Arab and Muslim world for treating their women "like pieces of furniture". Gaddafi, 67, was addressing women from political, cultural, and economic backgrounds at the Auditorium concert hall where he called for a "world female revolution", reports Time Online.

June 6th, 2009 LONDON - A British woman minister who once posed for a magazine photo shoot in a provocative pose wearing a short red dress has quit, complaining the prime minister treated women as female window dressing". "You have a two-tier government, your inner circle and then the remainder of cabinet," Europe Minister Caroline Flint said in a letter to British premier Gordon Brown, hours after he ignored her for promotion Friday.

June 4th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A controversial topless cafe in Maine, US, was gutted by fire on Wednesday. Fire officials believe that the fire at the Grand View Topless Coffee Shop in Vassalboro, just north of Augusta, was intentionally set.

May 30th, 2009 NEW YORK - Calling a burlesque performer a porn star is an actionable offense, according to a Brooklyn dancer who performs in panties and pasties. Tara Lee Heffner, whose stage name is Veronica Varlow, is suing the Learning Annex, a private continuing adult education school based in New York, after videos she did for the company were posted online identifying her as a "Young Sexy Porn Star Stripper Dancer" and a "Big T--- Sexy Teen Girl." Last year Heffner led a Learning Annex seminar on burlesque dancing.

April 23rd, 2009 MELBOURNE - Nadya Suleman a.k.a Octomum might have denied that she's obsessed with Angelina Jolie but she did use the alias 'Angelina' while working as a stripper. According to Perez Hilton, Suleman, who became a history-making mum after giving birth to octuplets on January 26, was a stripper for at least a year, and she went by the pseudonym Angelina.