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· King Malleta
Chinese Patient Plays With Her Phone During Operation to Help With Anxiety
Mobile phones are typically not allowed inside operating rooms, but a Chinese hospital made an exception for a 69-year-old patient to relieve her anxiety. A patient from China with a surname Zhu went to a hospital in Hangzhou in Zhejiang Province to address the varicose veins on…
· Ryan General
Father Begs Strangers to Beat Him To Raise Money For Son’s Eye Operation
A Chinese father, desperate for money, has a heart-rending plea to passersby on a street in Beijing: they may hit him on his buttocks in exchange for 10 yuan ($1.45), so he can accumulate enough money to pay for his son’s operation. Wearing only his boxers, the dad can be found…
· Ryan General
Bangladeshi ‘Tree Man’ Gets Hope After Multiple Operations
The ‘Tree man’ of Bangladesh may finally be cured of his mysterious condition after undergoing a massive operation involving a series of surgeries, doctors claim. Abul Bajandar developed huge bark-like warts on his hands, arms and other parts of the body due to the extremely…
· Carl Samson
68-Year-Old Man Undergoes 7 Operations After Getting Rare Flesh-Eating Disease in Taiwan
The beautiful memory of one vacation to Taiwan turned into a nightmare when a 68-year-old Singaporean man acquired a flesh-eating disease as a souvenir. The man, named Huang, spent 19 days at the hospital where he underwent seven operations that included blood transfusions and…
· Ryan General
Man Sings the Chinese Opera Version of an Adele Song — Breaks the Chinese Internet
Adele’s “Rolling in the Deep” was a huge global hit back in 2011. Five years later, the song is making a comeback in China, but in a slightly more epic version. Mixing Chinese opera with the distinct twist of the dialect of Ningxiang County (northeastern part of Hunan), a…
· Editorial Staff
Uber Surrenders Operations in China to Didi Chuxing for $1 Billion
The two dominant ride-hailing app rivals in China have joined forces to create an even more formidable company. Didi Chuxing, a domestic ride-hailing service leader in China, is acquiring Uber’s operations in China. According to sources who told Bloomberg, the company’s…
· Ryan General
This 12-Year-Old Chinese Opera Genius Just Got Admitted into College
A talented Chinese student is about to skip several years of schooling ahead of her classmates after passing a college entrance exam while still enrolled in primary school. Fifth grader Huang Sihan took an independent entrance exam for Anhui Professional College of Art and aced…
· Carl Samson
World’s Fastest Bullet Train That Goes 250 MPH Now Running in China
China’s Fuxing, dubbed as the world’s fastest commercial bullet train, started operations in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region on Monday. According to manufacturer China Railway Corporation, the next-generation trains run at 350 kilometers per hour (217 mph), with top speeds…
· Bryan Ke
South Korean Business Man Arrested in $550,000 Scam to Meet BTS
A business man in South Korea responsible for a fake fan meeting scam involving the famous K-pop boy band group BTS has been busted. The 37-year-old man, who is identified only by his surname as Choi, was accused of swindling a firm in January to which he offered the company a…
· Ryan General
China is Taking Credit For Inventing High-Speed Trains, Online Shopping
The internet recently raised its collective eyebrows after Chinese state media claimed that online shopping, high-speed rail, bike sharing and electronic payment systems are China’s “four new great inventions.” Last week, government-run Xinhua News Agency said the country…
· Carl Samson
Japan is Now Using Wood to Make Lighter and Stronger Cars
Anyone could see wood as the last material to use when building a car in this day and age, but Japan thinks otherwise. Apparently, Japanese researchers and car makers are studying the potential of wood as a substitute for steel to create lighter and stronger cars.
· Ryan General
Asian American Politician Stands by Trump After He Berated Her Husband
Just a week after President Donald Trump castigated Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, his wife, Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, expressed her support for both the president and her husband. Trump, who had demanded last week that McConnell should “get back to work” on…
· Khier Casino
Uber Philippines Suspends Service After Cracking Down on Unregistered Drivers
The Philippines’ Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) has ordered Uber to suspend its services for one month. Two weeks after it issued a show-cause order halting the application process of new drivers, the U.S. ride-sharing company confirmed “temporarily…
· Ryan General
Racist Teens Vandalize Asian American Headstones at Brooklyn Cemetery
Three racist teens were caught on video desecrating headstones and mausoleums with Asian names at a cemetery in New York. Security footage in Cypress Hills Cemetery revealed how the still unidentified men went about defiling and damaging over 40 headstones, reports CBS New York.
· Kyle Encina
Teen Dies After Two Days at ‘Gentle’ Internet Addiction Camp in China
A Chinese teenager, Li Ao, was rushed to the hospital days after attending an internet addiction treatment facility in Anhui Province, but passed away moments later. While the 18-year-old’s cause of death is not yet known, doctors who examined the boy revealed that he had…
· Bryan Ke
Woman Becomes First Person to Be Cryopreserved in China
Zhan Wenlian has become the first ever person to have ever gone through cryopreservation in China after passing away three months ago. Forty-nine-year-old Zhan died around 4 a.m. on May 8 at Qilu Hospital of Shandong University in Easter China after battling lung cancer for more…
· Heather Johnson Yu
Japanese Man Sets World Record For Holding Over 11,000 Patents
Even with a whopping 1,093 patents to his name, American inventor Thomas Edison falls short of being the most prolific patent-holder ever; that title currently belongs to Shunpei Yamazaki, who entered the Guinness Book Of World Records with a mind-boggling 11,353 patents on June…
· Ryan General
McDonald’s to Open 2,000 Additional Stores by 2022 in China
McDonald’s is gearing up for a massive expansion in China with an ambitious plan for reaching double-digit sales growth per year. The American fast-food giant has unveiled its plans to bring 2,000 additional stores to mainland China in a recent announcement, Shanghaiist reports.
· Kyle Encina
Policeman Goes Undercover With Triads For 11 Months, Arrests 299 Gang Members
Earning the trust of notorious gang leaders is no easy task, especially when they’re part of the oldest crime syndicate in Hong Kong, such as the Wo Shing Wo triad. But one undercover police officer had to take on a false identity of a vulgar thug in order to infiltrate the…
· Jenny Shay
How Rich FOBs and Asian Yuppies Are Gentrifying Chinatown
Born in China and raised in middle-of-nowhere Pleasanton, California, making the trek to San Francisco had always been a privilege that expanded my young mind and helped me reconnect with my cultural roots. Beyond visits to the California Academy of Sciences and Fisherman’s…
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