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A Taiwanese politician has been given a final farewell in the form of a street procession, with 50 bikini-clad women dancing on top of colourful jeeps.

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76-year-old Tung Hsiang’s two-hour long funeral procession was organised by his son who said his father “enjoyed a buzz.”

"He told us he wanted this through a dream two days before the funeral”, his brother Tung Mao-hsiung told local news channel CTS.

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While it is uncommon to see pole dancers at a funeral procession in Taiwan, hiring of exotic dancers is not a new practice.

In parts of China, people have hired strippers at funerals, with the aim of attracting a larger crowd. It is believed in some Asian cultures that the gathering of a large crowd honours the dead.

However, Chinese officials have clamped down on such events in recent years, launching a campaign in 2015 to put an end to such shows at funerals.

So a quiet dignified exit it is, then.

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