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· Ryan General
School in India Lets Kids Pay Tuition By Recycling Plastic
With the aim of encouraging poor parents to send their children to school instead of stone quarries, a small school for underprivileged students in India began accepting plastic waste as school fees. View this post on Instagram Akshar accepts plastic packets as school fees. The…
· Carl Samson
Boy in China Forced to Collect Recycling After Stealing $290 From His Grandma
A nine-year-old boy in southern China has been collecting recyclables since Golden Week to pay off the 2,000 yuan ($290) that he had stolen from his grandmother. It was discovered that for two weeks, Hanghang quietly used his grandmother’s WeChat Pay account for mobile game…
· Ryan General
Chinese Factory Exposed For Recycling Used Adult Diapers to Make New Ones
Usually, the idea of recycling is something to be applauded, but one Chinese factory’s methods are just too crappy to be appreciated. A small manufacturing plant in the province of Shandong was recently discovered to be recycling used, soiled adult diapers to make new ones.
· Augustine Reyes Chan
A Recycling Firm Wants to Give $100,000 to the Woman Who Donated This Rare Apple Computer
An unidentified woman unwittingly recycled a rare, treasured computer put together by Steve Jobs which she now stands to make $100,000 from.
· Carl Samson
Over 300,000 Used Condoms Found Being Washed, Reshaped for Illegal Sale in Vietnam
Police in southern Vietnam seized 324,000 used condoms being recycled for resale at a local warehouse. The raid on Saturday led to the arrest of the site’s renter, Pham Thi Thanh Ngoc, 32, who had been receiving secondhand contraceptives from an “unknown source” every month.
· Ryan General
Why We Keep Finding Cookies in Sewing Kit Containers
We’ve reached a point as a civilization that discovering actual cookies inside the iconic Royal Dansk Danish Butter Cookie Tin containers comes more as a surprise than finding threads and needles in them.
· Carl Samson
China Invented Paper 2,000 Years Ago, Then They Invented Cash
While some attribute the revolutionary contribution of paper to the West, scholars generally trace its creation to Imperial China some 2,000 years ago. In 105 A.D., Ts’ai (or Cai) Lun, a court eunuch, presented his newly-developed paper to Emperor Hedi of the Eastern Han…
· Ryan General
Read This Woman’s Tweets on Why the Elderly Chinese Man Dropped Charges Against a Suspect
A woman on Twitter is speaking up to defend the “restorative justice” being pursued against the 20-year-old suspect who filmed the assault, robbery and mocking of the elderly Chinese man collecting cans in San Francisco. The victim, an elderly man surviving by collecting…
· Carl Samson
Second Suspect Arrested in Attack on Elderly Chinese Man Collecting Cans in SF
San Francisco police arrested a second suspect in connection with the attack on an elderly Chinese man collecting cans in the Bayview neighborhood on Feb. 22. The suspect, identified as Jonathan Amerson, 56, turned himself in at Bayview Police Station around 11:30 a.m. on March…
· Editorial Staff
Chinese Woman Assaulted and Robbed in SF Chinatown Comes Forward
A woman who was assaulted and robbed of her purse in San Francisco’s Chinatown has come forward with details of the attack that happened only hours after the now infamous assault and robbery of an elderly Chinese man in Bayview.
· Editorial Staff
SFPD Arrests Suspect in Hate Crime on Elderly Chinese Man, Searching for Second Suspect
Editor’s Note: This post has been updated with the identity of the first suspect released by SFPD. San Francisco Police have made an arrest in the assault and robbery of the elderly Chinese man who was collecting cans in the Bayview Hunters-Point neighborhood.
· Khier Casino
SF Security Guards Suspended Over Response to Assaulted Elderly Chinese Man
Two security guards who responded to the assault on an elderly Chinese man collecting cans in San Francisco’s Bayview neighborhood have been suspended and put on administrative leave after a video showing how they handled the scene surfaced online. “I would say that with all due…
· Editorial Staff
Elderly Chinese Man Assaulted in SF IDENTIFIED: 5 Facts You Need to Know
Editor’s Note: This post has been updated with more accurate information from the Community Youth Center of San Francisco (CYCSF). San Francisco police have announced that they have identified the elderly Chinese man who was robbed and assaulted on the street while collecting…
· Ernestine Siu
Minorities are Perpetuating Racism and it Needs to Stop
A heartbreaking viral video posted on Sunday, Feb. 23 has sparked widespread outrage after showing a group of African Americans attacking an elderly Chinese man. The group can be seen making racially-charged remarks and physically attacking the man with a stick as he was picking…
· Editorial Staff
Elderly Chinese Man Collecting Cans in SF Assaulted by Group in Heartbreaking Viral Video
This story has been updated to include a statement from the San Francisco Police Department. A video that has been circulating online since Sunday night has angered the San Francisco community and many are demanding answers.
· Ryan General
Beloved DeviantArt Artist Qinni Passes Away From Cancer at 29
After a long battle with cancer, talented artist Qing Han, aka Qinni, passed away at age 29 earlier this month. The beloved artist from Canada, whose work inspired many for over a decade, left a multitude of fans and followers online devastated.
· Carl Samson
Trump Orders New Deportation of Hmong and Lao Immigrants
Hmong and Lao immigrants with standing deportation orders could soon be out of the U.S. as talks between the Trump administration and the government of Laos continue. The plan, confirmed by federal State Department officials on Monday, first made headlines last week after Rep.…
· Bryan Ke
Teens Are Refusing to Have Kids Unless The Government Does Something About Climate Change
Teenagers in Canada and the United States are pledging not to have children until the governments push plans to take serious steps against climate change. Emma Lim, the 18-year-old founder of the #NoFutureNoChildren climate change movement, is taking a stand by refusing to have…
· Bryan Ke
Villagers Now Swap Plastic Garbage for Rice in the Philippines
A village in Muntinlupa, Philippines is trying to tackle the plastic problem by offering its villagers a kilogram (about 2 pounds) of rice in exchange for plastics. Residents of Bayanan village can receive 1 kilogram (2.2 pounds) of rice when they exchange 2 kilograms (4.4…
· Ryan General
Kit Kat in Japan Ditches Plastic Wrapper for Paper That Can Become Origami
It is no secret by now that Kit Kats everywhere else have got nothing on those found in Japan, not only in terms of flavor variety but also the creativity in presentation and packaging. Taking this discrepancy a step further is Nestlé Japan’s move to introduce a radical change…