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· Bryan Ke
Miss England 2019 Goes Back to Being a Doctor to Fight on Front Lines
Miss England Bhasha Mukherjee has returned home and hung up her crown to continue her career as a doctor and fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. The 24-year-old beauty pageant winner initially planned to hang up her stethoscope after being invited to become an ambassador for…
· Ryan General
Meet The First Miss England Finalist to Walk the Runway in a Hijab
Sara Iftekhar is a 20-year-old Muslim law student who became the first Miss England contestant to walk the runway in a Hijab. While she eventually lost out on the crown to Miss Newcastle on Sunday, Iftikhar made history, nonetheless, as the first-ever hijabi to be among the Miss…
· Ryan General
Stylish Chinese Grandma Wins the Internet For Looking Exactly Like the Queen of England
A Chinese grandma who uncannily resembles Queen Elizabeth II has become an instant internet darling after her photos were shared online. Images of the stylish 85-year-old grandmother named Zheng Suzhen were posted by her great-grandson-in-law Ding Guoliang on Chinese social…
· Editorial Staff
A Facility That Breeds Dogs For Lab Testing Has Been Approved in England
Plans for a new facility that will breed dogs to be used in laboratory experiments have been approved in England. The application on behalf of B&K Universal, owned by American animal breeding firm Marshall BioResources, for the facility had been rejected twice before because of…
· Editorial Staff
There’s a Job Opening in England That Pays You to Play With Cats All Day
If you’ve ever dreamed of getting paid to play with cats, there’s a job opening in England just for you. A new cat cafe set to open in Manchester is looking for a cafe manager, assistant manager, barista, front of house staff and a cat nanny, reports the Telegraph.
· Carl Samson
2 Men Found Guilty of Killing 39 Vietnamese Migrants Trafficked into the UK
Two men have been convicted in the manslaughter of 39 Vietnamese migrants who were smuggled to the U.K. in a refrigerated trailer last year. The victims, aged 15 to 44, initially thought to be Chinese, suffocated to death after being sealed in the unit for at least 12 hours,…
· Ryan General
Filipina Nurse Makes History After Giving World’s First COVID-19 Vaccine in the UK
A Filipina British nurse took part in the historic first COVID-19 vaccination in the world, administering the Pfizer-BioNTech’s vaccine to a patient in the U.K. on Tuesday. “I’m very proud to be saying to everyone ‘I’m a Filipino British making history.’” – ❤️…
· Bryan Ke
Korean American Football Player Younghoe Koo to Become NFL’s Lead Scorer at 26
Korean American professional football player and Atlanta Falcons kicker, Younghoe Koo, is on track to become the NFL’s lead scorer. Leading kicker: Koo, one of four Korean Americans playing in the NFL right now, managed to get a 5-for-5 on field-goal tries and 4-for-4…
· Carl Samson
6 Buddhist Temples Vandalized in OC in November, 2 Women Caught on Camera
Six Buddhist temples in Orange County, California were reportedly vandalized in the last month, raising alarms against hate crimes that have targeted Asian Americans since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. In a news conference on Saturday, officials announced that three of the…
· Carl Samson
Asian and Black People the Most Likely to Get COVID-19, Meta-Study Finds
Asian and Black people have a greater risk of contracting COVID-19 than White people, according to a meta-study published on Thursday. Researchers from the Universities of Leicester and Nottingham, with support from the U.K.’s National Institute for Health Research, screened…
· Ryan General
Asian Restaurant Locks in Teens Allegedly Trying to Dine and Dash
Footage featuring teenagers trying to flee an Asian restaurant allegedly without paying for food went viral last week. Dine and dash from r/PublicFreakout
· Maina Chen
Viet Family Posts Videos Claiming Neighbor ‘Racially Harassed’ Them for 8 Months in Garden Grove
A Vietnamese family in Garden Grove, California has allegedly been racially harassed for months by their neighbors, the Marsh family, since they moved next door in March. The situation was brought to light on Instagram by the daughter of the targeted family, @shheylas, who…
· Ryan General
Asian Dad With 3 Kids Chased Out of Ice Cream Shop in the UK, Allegedly Called ‘Monkeys’
An employee of an ice cream parlor in England reportedly berated an Asian family, calling them “monkeys” while chasing them out of the store. Harrowing experience: 40-year-old father Mohammed Abubakar Qasim shared on Facebook how he and his three children received verbal abuse…
· Carl Samson
Hong Kong Man is World’s First COVID-19 Reinfection, Offers New Insight on Virus
A man in Hong Kong has become the world’s first documented case of COVID-19 reinfection since the pandemic emerged from Wuhan, China late last year. The patient, a 33-year-old information technology (IT) worker, is the subject of a study published in Clinical Infectious Diseases…
· Ryan General
EXCLUSIVE: BBC Fried Rice Chef Hersha Patel Combats Online Hate With Humor, Positivity
After enduring ridicule and toxic vitriol for a cooking video she did for BBC over a year ago, TV presenter Hersha Patel is now set on turning the hatred into positivity. Hersha revealed in an interview with NextShark how she is able to take the online criticisms in stride by…
· Bryan Ke
UK Priest Uses Chopsticks to Give Holy Communion During Mass
A Singaporean female priest is being lauded online for using chopsticks to keep her parishioners safe as churches reopened in the United Kingdom amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Church of England vicar Reverend Eileen Harrop was recently featured in the UK media after she was…
· Bryan Ke
Teen Pleads Guilty in Coronavirus-Related Attack on Singaporean Student in London
A 15-year-old boy has pleaded guilty for attacking a Singaporean student in London on February 24 in a coronavirus-related attack. The unnamed boy pleaded guilty to wounding or causing grievous bodily harm without intent at Highbury Corner Magistrates’ Court, according to BBC.
· Ryan General
Aspiring Model Gets 20 Months in Jail For Falsely Accusing Asian Cab Drivers of Rape
An up-and-coming model in England has been put behind bars for falsely claiming she was raped by an Asian cab driver. This isn’t the first time: Prior to her arrest, 27-year-old Victoria Hoynes was found to have falsely accused two taxi drivers, Rajiv Asghar and Abdul Rahim of…
· Maina Chen
Tan France of ‘Queer Eye’ Becomes a US Citizen After Trying for 20 Years
Tan France of Netflix’s “Queer Eye” announced on Instagram yesterday that he officially became a U.S. citizen and vowed to vote in the upcoming 2020 election.
· Bryan Ke
Man Arrested for Racially Abusing British-Pakistani Driver in Viral Video
An arrest was made in connection to the viral video of a Pakistani-British taxi driver being harassed by a racist passenger last week. An unidentified 53-year-old man was arrested in Erdington, West Midlands, England on Friday afternoon following a viral video posted on Twitter…