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· Benny Luo
Counterforce: An Interview With the Anti-tech Group That Hates Kevin Rose & Google
Over the last several months, multiple protests have appeared in San Francisco specifically targeted at Google. Employees of the company have been harassed in their homes and Google’s private bus service has received flack for using public bus lanes, including an incident where…
· Benny Luo
Digg Founder Kevin Rose Throws Raccoon Down a Flight of Stairs [VIDEO]
Words cannot explain how I wanted so much to write that headline after watching the video above.
· Bryan Ke
Chinese ‘Fashion Designer’ Who Became a Weibo Celebrity Cyberbullied for Her Unique Style
If you think Lady Gaga is weird, you should check out Wang Shou-Ying — otherwise known on Weibo as Fairy Wang — from Taian in Shangdong, China. Fairy Wang became a superstar in Chinese social media via the micro blogging platform Weibo in a matter of weeks back in 2014.…
· Carl Samson
Man Gets 327-Year Prison Sentence for Violently Robbing the Elderly in SF Chinatown and Japantown
A 60-year-old Black man who was charged with a series of burglaries and assaults in San Francisco’s Chinatown and Japantown in 2014 was sentenced to 327 years to life behind bars. German Woods, then 57, terrorized residents who were at least in their 80s during the spring and…
· Heather Johnson Yu
25 Racist and Disgusting Ways to Hit on Asian Women on Craigslist
If 4Chan is the internet’s asshole, Craigslist is probably the taint. Like, it’s an integral part of the internet, but we’re not really sure what it’s there for and we’re honestly a little creeped out by it. Of course, we’re all familiar with it (Craigslist, that is) — it’s been…
· Carl Samson
Chinese Restaurant Owner Fatally Stabs Husband After Argument Over Soup in Australia
A Chinese restaurant owner in Sydney, Australia pleaded not guilty to the fatal stabbing of her husband during an argument involving abalone soup, claiming that it was accidental. Qian Liu, 35, and her husband, Han Lim Chin, hoped to put their marital problems behind them and…
· Bryan Ke
Taiwanese Man Keeps Heartbreaking Promise to Get Engaged to Girlfriend at Her Funeral
A 30-year-old Taiwanese man kept his promise by throwing an engagement party for his recently deceased fiancé at her funeral. The man, who is only identified by his surname Tsai, threw the engagement party during the funeral of his fiancé, Ms. Chen, at Changhua City Funeral &…
· Bryan Ke
Teen in Japan Held For Selling Smartphone Virus for ‘Pocket Money’
A 13-year-old boy from Osaka was referred to a juvenile consultation center by Japanese authorities for allegedly selling a smartphone virus through an online market place. The boy, a second grader at a public junior high school whose name has been withheld, admitted his crime…
· Bryan Ke
Star Wars Fans are Loving the Tico Sisters Action Figures for ‘The Last Jedi’
Disney and Lucasfilm have finally released the Tico Sisters action figures for “Star Wars: The Last Jedi”, and many Asian American fans were quite pleased with the studios’ toys. The studios released several products from Hasbro involving the two characters, Rose and Paige Tico,…
· Khier Casino
Vine Star Logan Paul Keeps Targeting Asians With Extremely Racist Jokes
Logan Paul is known for his comedic videos on YouTube and Vine (RIP) but nobody is laughing after seemingly racist comments from the social media star recently surfaced. A series of Twitter posts made by the 22-year-old actor and rumored boyfriend of Chloe Bennet — who has…
· Ryan General
Alleged Chinese Spy Sentenced in First Ever Case of Sharing Nuclear Secrets With China
The fate of the 66-year-old engineer who was found to be working as a spy for the Chinese government will be decided on Wednesday as he faces sentencing in the first prosecution of such kind in the United States. Szuhsiung “Allen” Ho has confessed earlier this year to…
· Khier Casino
Blogilates Cassey Ho Surprises Her 1.4 Million Fans By Getting Engaged!
Cassey Ho of Blogilates is officially off the market, sharing her engagement to longtime boyfriend, Sam Livits, on her Instagram page. “I got engaged in Kauai to the love of my life. It feels like a dream but Sam reminds me that it’s definitely real,” Ho wrote in excitement.
· Bryan Ke
Mother of Missing California Woman Offers $250,000 ‘Time-limited’ Reward
The mother of 20-year-old Elaine Park, who has been missing since January, is asking the public for help in finding her daughter in Glendale, California by offering a “time-limited” reward of $250,000. “It’s completely (a) mystery, unimaginable. How can someone just disappear…
· Carl Samson
Foreign Internet Celebrities Are Making Up to $60,000 Per Post in China
Expected to surpass $14 billion next year, China’s internet celebrity economy has never been more lucrative. This is why it’s not surprising to hear more and more people coming up with all sorts of antics — from disgusting to deadly — to become full-fledged “Wang Hong”. However,…
· Nia Tucker
Belts and Bruises: How Physical Abuse Can Shape The Identities of POC
One thing I constantly see across Twitter is the sharing between POC of stories of their worse a** beatings and what tools were used to do so. I’ve seen sandals, rulers, switches, branches, pans, belts, and more, shared in this sense of solidarity as we all cackle over what got…
· Ryan General
Taiwanese Businessman Pays $13 Million Prison Bail in Cash After 90 Minutes
It took just an hour and a half for a Taiwanese tycoon Ho Show-Chung to come up with 400 million New Taiwan Dollars ($13 million) for his bail money. The 72-year-old founder of SinoPac Financial Holdings Co. was recently indicted for violations of the Securities Exchange Act and…
· 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
81-Year-Old Chinese Husband Serenades Wife In a Coma For Their 54th Anniversary
With sweets and roses on hand, 81-year-old Zhang Ligen serenaded Cai Guifang, his wife of 54 years who, due to an illness, fell into a coma. A footage of the romantic gesture has touched the hearts of thousands of netizens after it became widely shared on Chinese social media.
· Ryan General
Filipina Helper’s Death in China Sparks Human-Trafficking Investigation
A Filipina domestic helper’s death in Hong Kong is currently under investigation by local authorities as a possible “case of human-trafficking”. Lorain Asuncion fell from the seventh floor of an apartment building in Shenzhen after she was sent there to work by her employers…
· 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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Company · Japan · TYO:7974
Nintendo
Nintendo turns beloved game worlds into hardware, software, parks, merch, and repeat family spending.
Company · Singapore · NASDAQ:GRAB
Grab
Grab is the everyday super-app of Southeast Asia — rides, food, and payments in one wallet across eight countries, the way hundreds of millions actually move and eat.
Company · Japan · TYO:4911
Shiseido
Shiseido is the standard-bearer of J-beauty — a 150-year-old house whose skincare rituals and prestige brands shape beauty across Asia and beyond.
Jollibee Foods Corporation · Food · PSE:JFC
Jollibee is turning nostalgia into stores.
This shows up when a meal that feels like home is no longer just your hometown stop but the same Jollibee run you can repeat in more places across Southeast Asia.
CJ ENM · Entertainment · KOSDAQ:035760
Before the first song drops, H//PE Princess already has a global Warner deal.
A debut deal matters less than whether the group turns into repeat listening, touring, merch, and fandom across markets.
Nintendo · Gaming · TYO:7974
If your kid wants Mario Kart, Nintendo still has the advantage.
If Switch 2 ends up in your living room, Nintendo is betting you keep coming back for Mario, Zelda, Pokemon, downloads, and online play even after the box gets pricier.
Explainer · Jollibee Foods Corporation
If Jollibee feels like home, that feeling is spreading across Southeast Asia.
This shows up when a meal that feels like home is no longer just your hometown stop but the same Jollibee run you can repeat in more places across Southeast Asia.
Explainer · Amorepacific
K-beauty won the Amazon cart. The real prize is your second bottle.
The first sale matters less than the repeat routine. If a product sticks, the brand can keep winning on replenishment, retail placement, and cross-market demand.
Explainer · Nintendo
Your next Switch 2 costs more. Mario is why Nintendo thinks you still pay.
The question is not just whether people buy Nintendo Switch 2 once. It is whether they keep buying back into Nintendo after Nintendo Switch 2 gets more expensive.