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Environmental
‘Vo Sinh Dai Chien’: Film touted as the Vietnamese ‘Karate Kid’ headed to Netflix
Martial arts film “Vo Sinh Dai Chien” (“The Battle of Pupils”), which has been touted as the “Vietnamese ‘The Karate...
Iris Jung
Heartbreaking video shows mother elephant desperately trying to revive newborn calf
The Zurich Zoo in Switzerland recently uploaded a heartbreaking video showing an elephant and her mother desperately attempting to revive a ...
Bryan Ke
Look: Adorable panda cubs wave goodbye to the panda-monium that was 2022
An adorable bunch of panda cubs are waving goodbye to 2022 and hello to the New Year. A group of 13 pandas born this year at the Chengdu Res...
Chandler Treon
China
Chinese farmer uses AI to save hundreds of newborn goats
A man who once worked in the finance industry in Shanghai now uses artificial intelligence (AI) to help reduce the mortality rate of goats g...
Malaysia’s deadly floods force more than 72,000 people to evacuate
A monsoon in Malaysia has triggered landslides and rural flooding, forcing more than 72,000 people to evacuate their homes. The country’s no...
Michelle De Pacina
Malaysian boy narrowly escapes crocodile attack over a week after infant killed by croc
A 7-year-old Malaysian boy from the Sabah district of Lahad Datu narrowly escaped a crocodile attack by kicking himself free on Thursday. ...
Ryan General
Singapore serves lab-grown meat to world leaders at COP27 climate conference
Singapore hosted a dinner co-organized with The Good Food Institute APAC and meat company Good Meat that served lab-grown meat on Nov. 14 d...
Man in China arrested for killing 1,000 birds ‘for hotpot’
A man in the Chinese province of Zhejiang was arrested for killing 1,000 protected birds that he said he intended to cook in hotpots. Wu, ...
Thai coconut industry fueled by ‘rampant’ monkey slave labor, investigation reveals
In a press release on Monday, animal advocacy group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) called out the meal delivery service...
Elephant calf appears to salute woman who helped it get out of mud in viral video
A video of a woman helping a baby elephant stuck in the mud has gone viral. In response to the woman’s act of kindness, the baby elephant ...
Bua Noi, the ‘world’s loneliest gorilla,’ has been caged in a Thailand shopping mall for 33 years
Since 2015, the Thai government and the animal rights group PETA have been fighting for Bua Noi, the “world’s saddest gorilla,” to be relea...
Nonprofit’s investigation exposes rampant animal abuse in 8 elephant attractions in Thailand
Nonprofit organization Lady Freethinker (LFT) released a report exposing the abusive treatment that elephants have been subjected to in eig...
Business
16 families purchase land to create first Hmong-owned and operated farm in US history
Hmong farmers with the Hmong American Farmers Association (HAFA) purchased 155 acres of land in Dakota County, Minnesota. The recent purch...
‘I cannot find the right and common sense’: Olympic skiers criticize Asian Winter Games set in Saudi Arabia desert
Saudi Arabia announced on Tuesday that it won the bid to host the next Asian Winter Games in 2029 at its planned TROJENA resort that will b...
Thailand to impose total ban on plastic scrap imports by 2025
Thailand will be implementing a plan of action in three phases that will culminate in a total ban on plastic scrap imports by 2025. The fi...
Pitbull named ‘Nazi’ mauls 60-year-old owner in Thailand
A pitbull named “Nazi” mauled its 60-year-old owner after it saw her feeding a stray dog on Monday in Nakhon Ratchasima province in Thailan...
Elephant is caught on CCTV trampling monk to death in Thailand
Phra Prachon Suksingh, a 66-year-old Buddhist monk, was trampled to death by a wild elephant in Chanthaburi province, Thailand, on Saturday...
Sightseeing train in Japan is fueled by used cooking oil, discarded ramen soup lard
Takachiho Amaterasu Railway, a train company operating in Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan, started using biodiesel fuel created from used tempur...
The ultimate clean energy? Scientists create green hydrogen fuel from air
A team of scientists has managed to invent a device that could turn water from the air into green hydrogen fuel, according to a Nature Comm...
Indonesian monkeys use stones as sex toys, researchers find
Researchers studying the activity of over 170 long-tailed macaques living at the Sacred Monkey Forest Sanctuary in central Bali between 201...
Chinese scientists successfully create world’s first mammal with fully reprogrammed genes
Chinese scientists have successfully recombined a mouse’s chromosomes to create the world’s first mammal with fully reprogrammed genes. Usi...
Marine mammals that inspired ancient mermaid tales are now ‘functionally extinct’ in China
The dugong — a marine mammal that purportedly inspired ancient mermaid tales — has been declared “functionally extinct” in China due to the...
Vietnamese father in Texas wrestles alligator outside his home using tips from late Steve Irwin
A Vietnamese father and restaurant owner in Missouri captured an alligator outside of his home by remembering what the late Steve Irwin did...
Rebecca Moon
Overworked elephant rips Thai owner in half
A 20-year-old male elephant named Pom Pam reportedly ripped his owner, Supachai Wongfaed, in half using his tusks in the Thai province of P...
Elephant at Chinese zoo filmed returning shoe to child
A video has gone viral of an elephant returning a child’s shoe after it fell into its enclosure at a zoo located in eastern China. In the ...
Video of elephant giving birth in Kenya reserve goes viral
A video of an elephant giving birth in snowy conditions went viral on Monday, garnering over 8.5 million views in a day. The one-minute cl...
Jane Nam
Viral video captures elephants springing to action to save calf drowning in pool
In a video posted to Twitter on Saturday, two elephants can be seen rushing to save a drowning baby elephant. In what appears to be footag...
Asia
Nearly 6,000 glaciers in China have disappeared due to global warming
Scientists reported that 5,956 miniature alpine glaciers have disappeared in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, also known as the Tibetan Plateau i...
Gondola project at Dodger Stadium sparks gentrification and privacy fears from Chinatown residents
A mile-long gondola project at Dodger Stadium has sparked fear among Chinatown residents who worry about gentrification and privacy concern...
Discovery of extinct panda species reinforces evidence of pandas originating in Europe, not Asia
The recent discovery of an ancient panda species in Bulgaria is reinforcing previous studies that point to panda bears originating in Europ...
Carl Samson
Macaque caught on video peering into home as Japanese city continues to hunt monkeys attacking locals
A Japanese macaque was caught on camera clutching onto a railing of a door as it observed the interior of a house in Yamaguchi City, Japan....
7.0-magnitude earthquake leaves at least 5 dead and 130 injured in northern Philippines
A 7.0-magnitude earthquake hit northern Luzon, the Philippines’ most populous island, on Wednesday morning, killing at least five and injur...
‘Murder hornets’ get name change to avoid reinforcing anti-Asian sentiments
American and Canadian entomologists changed the common name of the “Asian giant hornet” to "northern giant hornet." The Entomolo...
Wild cheetahs to be reintroduced to India 70 years after their extinction in the country
Cheetahs were nearly driven to extinction in India when a maharaja — or Hindu prince — hunted down the last one in the country in 1952, nea...
Iconic Chinese paddlefish and wild Yangtze sturgeon officially declared extinct
In 2019, the Chinese paddlefish was listed as extinct in the International Union for Conservation of Nature Red List of Threatened Species....
Celine Pun
‘Historic’ waves as high as 20 feet tall send wedding guests in Hawaii running for cover
Massive waves sent wedding guests running for cover as water aggressively knocked over decor and stands in Hawaii over the weekend. As see...