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· Ryan General
12-Year-Old Forced to Quit Chess Tournament Because Her Dress Was Too ‘Seductive’
A 12-year-old girl was reportedly forced to withdraw from a local chess tournament in Malaysia after organizers deemed her clothes “improper and had violated the dress code” for the tournament. The incident, which happened during the National Scholastic Chess Championship 2017…
· Ryan General
Chinese Female Chess Grandmaster Throws Match to Protest Sexist Tournament
A top female chess grandmaster from China shocked the local chess community after she intentionally threw a match at a major event last Thursday. Chinese women’s world champion Hou Yifan reportedly quit a game after just five moves during the final round of the Tradewise…
· Ryan General
Ivanka Trump Tweets a ‘Chinese Proverb,’ Only It’s Not Actually Chinese
Ivanka Trump lit up social media on Monday after tweeting a piece of wisdom she attributed as an ancient Chinese saying: “Those who say it can not be done, should not interrupt those doing it.” “Those who say it can not be done, should not interrupt those doing it.” -Chinese…
· Carl Samson
Meet the Singaporean Man Who’s Allowed to Break Strict Rules in North Korea
North Korea may still be in the process of opening its borders to the outside world — to the U.S., at least — but it already has something other than McDonald’s it welcomes without fuss: a social media star. Meet Aram Pan, a Singaporean photographer with a flair for all things…
· Ryan General
High School Basketball Game Stopped After Asian And Black Players Attacked With Racist Chanting
Referees officiating a high school basketball game were forced to abruptly stop the match after the students from a Catholic school in Cincinnati, Ohio chanted racist slurs at the opposing team. The game between Elder High School and St. Xavier High School was reportedly called…
· Carl Samson
He’s Only 7-Years-Old and Works as a Delivery Boy in China
A little boy spotted delivering goods in eastern China has gone viral after his pictures surfaced on the Chinese social media app WeChat. The boy, nicknamed Xiaochangjiang or “Little Yangtze River,” just turned 7.
· Ryan General
Mysterious ‘Go’ Master Who’s Been Destroying World’s Top Players Was a Google AI All Along
Go, a strategy board game which originated from China more than 2,500 years ago, has relatively simple rules, but with very complex gameplay in the same class as Chess. The game, which is still currently played globally, has recently found a formidable player in the form of an…
· Ryan General
Chinese Farmer Builds a Whole ‘Family’ Out of 63 Fully-Functional Robots From Scraps
A Chinese farmer/inventor, who taught himself to build unique operational robots has created an impressive family of machines made entirely from scraps over the last three decades. For years, Wu Yulu, from Beijing has been developing different types of robots that are able to do…
· Laura Dang
Chinese Designer Pays $56,000 to Give Birth In The Portland, the UK’s Most Exclusive Maternity Hospital
Lu Hui, fashion designer and wife of a wealthy business tycoon, chose to give birth to her son at a luxurious London hospital that cost her over $56,500. Lu, 24, had a C-section to deliver her son, Lucas, at The Portland, London’s only private maternity hospital and also where…
· Laura Dang
Craigslister Warns of Asian Woman Running $1,300 MacBook Pro Scam in Los Angeles
A Craigslist user is warning everyone in the Los Angeles area to be wary of a MacBook Pro scammer. According to the post, the victim agreed to meet in a public place to purchase the brand new MacBook Pro sealed in its box. After the transaction had taken place the buyer…
· Editorial Staff
Parents Are Actually Naming Their Kids After Instagram Filters Now
Newly released data on baby names in 2015 reveals that parents took increased inspiration from planets, the TV show “Empire” and Instagram filters when choosing monikers for their newborns. According to BabyCenter, the top names for boys and girls in 2015 were also previous…
· Editorial Staff
Meet the Third Apple Co-founder Who Sold His 10 Percent Stake For $800
Ronald Wayne may not be a name you recognize, but he is Apple’s third co-founder alongside Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. Wayne met the two future tech titans during his tenure at Atari in the 1970s. One day, Jobs called Wayne in to settle a small dispute he had with Wozniak. He…
· Laura Dang
What the Founder of a $1 Billion Startup Learned From Playing ‘World of Warcraft’ for a Year
People quit their jobs for many reasons: to get a more lucrative position elsewhere, to change careers, or even to scoop ice cream in the Caribbean. Robert Hohman quit his job as president of Hotwire in order to play a video game. Ironically, a year later he founded Glassdoor, a…
· Sarah Lesnar
10 Funny Habits You Learn to Love Dating a Young Entrepreneur
We’ve all had complicated relationships. There are ups and downs and hopefully the pros outweigh the cons. But our generation is experiencing a new phenomenon in the dating world that our moms didn’t have to face, and that’s the surge in entrepreneurship. Relationships and…
· Sebastian Dillon
8 Reasons Why Clinkle’s Lucas Duplan is the Worst Startup Founder Ever
Image Source: Clinkle. The original was taken by Jason Henry for WSJ, adapted by Michael Nudelman. The picture above says it all, but if you want to find out exactly how this Stanford kid raised $30 million for his startup Clinkle and became the ring leader for one of Silicon…
· Waylae Gregoire
Chinese Billionaire Jack Ma: The Rules of Entrepreneurship
If you don’t know who Jack Ma is, you should. Regarded as one of the first Chinese internet entrepreneurs, Jack Ma started in 1995 with China Yellowpages before founding what is now Alibaba Group, a highly successful internet-based holding company that earned Ma a spot on the…
· Benny Luo
Ronald Wayne: On Co-founding Apple and Working With Steve Jobs
When people think about the original founders of Apple, most people usually think of Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. These guys are two of the most notable figures in tech history. However, Apple has a third co-founder that is rarely ever mentioned. In fact, the latest Jobs movie…