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· Michelle De Pacina
Family of bullied California boy presses charges and files restraining order against two teens
Police have identified the two teens in California who followed a 13-year-old boy home and punched him multiple times. The boy’s family has pressed assault and battery charges and have filed restraining orders against the teens. His older sister has set up a GoFundMe page to…
· Carl Samson
Chicago police release details of suspects in violent robbery of elderly Asian man on Red Line train
Chicago police are looking for a man and a woman in connection with a Red Line train robbery that left an elderly Asian man bleeding profusely from his head. The incident, which was caught in a now-viral video, occurred near the 95th/Dan Ryan stop at 15 W. 95th St. at around…
· Carl Samson
Elderly Asian man left bleeding profusely after robbers smash his skull with his own wine bottle on Chicago train
A man reported to be an Asian senior was left dazed and bleeding profusely after a group of robbers smashed his head with his own wine bottle. The incident, which was caught on video, reportedly occurred on a Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) Red Line train at around 2:12 a.m. on…
· Rebecca Moon
Tokyo station employee tells passengers to use rear train cars if they ‘do not want to be groped’
A Tokyo train station worker has drawn criticism for an announcement he made telling passengers to take the rear train cars if they do not want to be groped. The employee’s choice of words drew heavy criticism from online users. Gropers, known as “chikan” in Japanese, are more…
· Bryan Ke
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 tempura cooking oil and discarded lard from ramen soup to power its open-air sightseeing train on Aug. 1. The railway tested the fuel for its…
· Rebecca Moon
Thai zoo staff chases after man dressed up as an ostrich in training exercise
To help train staff at the Chiang Mai Zoo in Thailand, an employee dressed up as an ostrich that “escaped” to teach staff how to handle an animal on the loose. With white paint smeared on his face, his arms tucked into a giant ball of cloth and a fake ostrich mask placed on his…
· Grace Kim
New Korean horror series ‘Parasyte: The Grey’ underway at Netflix by Yeon Sang-ho of ‘Hellbound,’ ‘Train To Busan’
Yeon Sang-ho, the writer and director behind the Korean horror hits “Hellbound,” “Train To Busan” and “Peninsula,” is returning to Netflix with a new horror series based on a Japanese manga by Hitoshi Iwaaki. Ryu Yong-jae, a screenwriter for Netflix’s “Money Heist: Korea – Joint…
· Rebecca Moon
Korean entertainment CEO allegedly forced female trainees to send him risqué photos every week
An investigation has been launched into Lee Sul, the CEO of South Korean entertainment agency LPA Entertainment, who allegedly forced female trainees to send photos of themselves solely in their underwear every week. A complaint filed in June stated that Lee collected “body…
· Bryan Ke
Japanese kickboxer Rukiya Anpo demolishes ‘street fighters’ who interrupted training session
A video of Japanese kickboxer Rukiya “Demolition Man” Anpo beating up two “street fighters” who interrupted his training session with fellow Japanese kickboxer Kosei Yamada went viral. Footage of the fight has garnered over 624,000 views on Twitter and more than 116,000 views on…
· Jane Nam
Brad Pitt credits ‘underrated’ Jackie Chan as influence for ‘Bullet Train’ fighting style
In an interview on Monday night at the premiere of his latest film “Bullet Train,” actor Brad Pitt credited legendary Hong Kong action star Jackie Chan as the influence behind many of the film’s fight scenes. Pitt, who plays a killer assassin hired to collect a briefcase while…
· William Yuk
Japanese author behind ‘Bullet Train’ responds to whitewashing criticism: The characters are ‘not real people’
Japanese novelist Kotaro Isaka recently responded to backlash against the decision to cast non-Japanese actors in “Bullet Train,” the Hollywood adaptation of his 2010 novel “Maria Beetle.” The film has been criticized for undermining its cultural inspirations by casting white…
· Bryan Ke
‘Welcome to hell’: Video of handler abusing dog at training school in Singapore sparks outrage
A video of a dog being abused by a handler at a training school in Singapore went viral on Wednesday, sparking outrage on social media. The Animal and Veterinary Service (AVS) and Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) are now investigating the case shared on…
· Rebecca Moon
Senior sends $334 to Taiwan train station to make up for fares they evaded 60 years ago
An anonymous septuagenarian sent 10,000 New Taiwan dollars (approximately $334) and a letter to Taiwan’s Gangshan train station to make up for the train fares they purportedly evaded 60 years ago as a student. Addressed to Taiwan Railways Administration (TRA) official Hsu…
· Michelle De Pacina
Man goes on ’10-minute racist tirade’ after hearing two men speaking Korean on an Auckland train
Leonard Hong and his friend from Korea were speaking Korean on the Western train line to Swanson when an “old white guy” set off on a racist tirade in Auckland, New Zealand, on Sunday. “It’s ridiculous that in a wonderful multicultural city like Auckland that some old white guy…
· Ryan General
Filipino health worker made NYC train passenger who spat on her ‘see stars’: PH consul general
Philippine Consul General in New York Elmer Cato claimed in a tweet on Saturday that a Filipino health worker was spat on and insulted by a fellow passenger inside an N Broadway Express train in New York City. “A woman picked on the wrong Asian on the N train this morning,” Cato…
· Michelle De Pacina
Man injures three women in two separate attacks at Chicago Chinatown train station
A man who injured three women in two separate attacks at CTA Red Line platforms on Wednesday was taken into custody and was brought to the Jackson Park Hospital for a mental health evaluation. The 29-year-old suspect stabbed a 22-year-old woman in the face with a sharp object…
· Bryan Ke
Thai YouTuber wows internet with huge origami city and working train system made entirely of paper
Darunbhop Puangsombat, 29, became an online star after making a miniature paper city with different structures, from police stations and apartment buildings to restaurants and a functional train system. The YouTuber took almost a year to finish his project, which was designed…
· Carl Samson
White supremacists in Michigan convicted of training for US ‘race war’
Three members of a national white supremacist group called The Base have pleaded guilty in Michigan to conspiring to train for a civil disorder. The Base, which is the English translation of “Al-Qaeda,” claims to be training for a race war that would establish white rule across…
· Carl Samson
Sen. Rubio introduces bill to speed up weapons sales to Taiwan, boost joint military training
U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) introduced a bill Tuesday designed to strengthen Taiwan’s defenses through fast-tracked weapons sales and a joint training program, among other measures. The bill, titled Taiwan Peace through Strength Act of 2022, will essentially require…
· Rebecca Moon
TikToker rescues ‘abandoned’ Nintendogs after finding game cartridge on London train
After discovering a lost “Nintendogs” game cartridge on a London train, a TikTok user shared a series of videos detailing his journey of rescuing the “abandoned” virtual puppies. The TikTok user, @bennypvideo, shared a video last Thursday of him finding the lost game cartridge…