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· Ryan General
China’s Terrible Air Pollution is Actually Making People Dumber, Yale Study Finds
Research by Chinese scientists claims to have found that air pollution causes people to become less intelligent. The study was based on a survey conducted by Yale and Peking University researchers who tested over 25,000 participants living around China, Shanghaiist reported.
· Ryan General
Japan is Finally Making Changes to a 100-Year-Old Rape Law
After being left unchanged for a hundred years, Japan is finally moving toward improving its archaic sex crime law. Japanese parliament’s lower house has recently approved a bill that intends to broaden the definition of rape, which is limited to only to vaginal penetration by a…
· Ryan General
Diversity is Actually Making Hollywood More Money But They Still Whitewash Films
Hollywood, take notice: Creating movies with the more diverse casts will make moviegoers flock to the theaters, according to a new study revealed. Diversity reportedly helps keep ratings for television shows and ticket sales for films up in the United States, according to the…
· Bryan Ke
Baker Becomes Instagram Famous For Making Visually Satisfying Pies
The Seattle, Washington-based baker behind Loko Kitchen, Lauren Ko, uses pie as her canvas to create colorful and mathematically precise shapes and styles. Earlier this year, Ko only had about 100,000 followers on Instagram, according to Munchies. However, a few months later,…
· Editorial Staff
Gigi Hadid FINALLY Apologizes To Asians For Making That Racist Instagram Video
After drawing backlash from Chinese netizens for a racist Instagram video she made earlier this year, model Gigi Hadid has finally released an apology. this is y’all woke palestine queen? Gigi out here mocking Asian people. i would say she’s cancelled but she never started. rat…
· Editorial Staff
Paris Hilton is Actually Better at Making Money Than Donald Trump
With the upcoming presidential election, Donald Trump has constantly said that his business acumen is what makes him qualified to run the country. But just how good of a businessman is he? In a question answered on Quora, user Kevin Flint compares Trump’s business history to the…
· Augustine Reyes Chan
Apple Finally Admits Why They Keep Making Gold-Colored Devices
Apple is heavily influential, but it’s also influenced heavily by its global markets. It wouldn’t be surprising then to hear Apple admit that it greatly considers Chinese taste when developing its products, taking into consideration, for example, China’s color palette…
· Carl Samson
Netflix is Making a Live-Action ‘Avatar: The Last Airbender’ Series
A live-action series of “Avatar: The Last Airbender” is coming to Netflix. Original creators Michael DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko will direct and executive-produce the show, which starts production in 2019.
· Carl Samson
Chinese YouTuber Takes Her Epic Lunch-Making Skills to the Outdoors
Ms. Yeah, known for making meals and makeup at work, has taken her creativity and resourcefulness out of the office to a creek in a rural village in southern China. In a new video, Ms. Yeah and her co-workers get excited about a luxury tour of “Xin Ma Tai” (Singapore, Malaysia,…
· Carl Samson
Japanese Clay Artist Creates Really Tiny Animal Sculptures
A Japanese clay artist has been making tiny animal sculptures with some details nearly invisible to the naked eye. Kakuho Fujii’s sculptures measure somewhere between two and five millimeters (0.2 and 0.5 centimeters), smaller than any finger or toe nail on the human body.
· Carl Samson
Fox and Scooter Braun are Making a Movie About K-Pop
Fox 2000 Pictures has acquired the rights to a K-Pop-centered film based on a pitch from SB Projects and Epic Magazine. The untitled movie features an Asian-American college student who becomes a top contender in South Korea’s toughest K-Pop competition show.
· Ryan General
Journalism Student Reportedly Expelled From China After Making a Human Rights Film for School
A German journalism student in Beijing was allegedly expelled due to a class project which involved him pursuing what school administrators deemed a “politically sensitive story.” While taking up his master’s degree in journalism and communications at Tsinghua University,…
· Carl Samson
A Bunch of Americans are Trying to Be K-Pop Stars in Korea and It’s Actually Starting to Work Out
After years of proving themselves as a legitimate K-Pop group, EXP Edition could finally be earning the approval of a hypercompetitive industry whose fans expect idols to be no less than perfect. The group, regarded as the first all non-Korean K-Pop act, debuted under IMMABB…
· Bryan Ke
Hollywood is Already Thinking of Making a Movie About the Soccer Team Trapped in the Thai Cave
Hollywood producers are plotting to create a movie about the youth soccer team that was trapped inside the miles-long Tham Luang Nang Non cave in Chiang Rai Province, Thailand. Pure Flix films managing partner Michael Scott and co-producer Adam Smith conducted interviews around…
· Ryan General
Hollywood is Making A Live-Action ‘Gundam’ Movie
A new live-action film based on the beloved Japanese mecha anime “Gundam” is reportedly in the works. Japan’s Sunrise Inc., which owns the popular franchise, is teaming up with Legendary Pictures to produce the movie, Deadline reports.
· Khier Casino
Chinese Locals are Asked What They Think of White People — The Answers Are Making People Sad
Asian Boss, a YouTube channel that interviews people on the street around Asia about different topics, visited the streets of Shanghai to ask people about what they think of white foreigners living in China. Right off the bat, locals in Shanghai discuss white people being more…
· Ryan General
Why Some Japanese Moms Eat Cup Ramen Even After Making Dinner for the Whole Family
A young Japanese mom recently shared a realization she had about her own mother on Twitter which moms across the country found to be so relatable. Housewife Ranran, known as @a_i_ee_85 on Twitter, wrote in her tweet that she finally realized why her mother would sometimes prefer…
· Heather Johnson Yu
Redditor Raises His Adopted Asian Son in Chinese Culture for 17 Years, Then Realizes He’s Actually Korean
Transracial adoption is never easy. It’s so common for children to grow up hearing horribly insensitive things said about them, and there’s so much that these kids will miss out on when not being raised in their native culture.
· Bryan Ke
Old-School Japanese Underwear is Making an Epic Comeback
Fundoshi, a type of traditional Japanese underwear popular among men before World War II, is now making a comeback. While it is highly popular during summer season, fundoshi, or just simply a loincloth, is also commonly used in rainy seasons, according to SoraNews24. It helps…
· Heather Johnson Yu
Bullied Asian Student Reveals What Showing Nothing But Kindness Actually Did For Him
Sometimes, people say how they truly feel about you when they don’t think you’ll hear it. They might let slip to another person that they have a crush on you, or they may write something in their journal about a memory of you they have that really impacted them.