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· Carl Samson
China is creating a system that publicly shames people who default on their bank loans. Developed by the Supreme People’s Court, the China Banking Regulatory Commission and the Communist Party’s Publicity Department, the system targeting laolai or “deadbeat borrowers” will be…
· Bryan Ke
After months of trying to persuade the U.S. government, officials finally approved the entry of a Vietnamese stem cell donor who could potentially save the life of a dying mother from cancer in Orange County, California. Thuy Nguyen, Helen Huynh’s sister and the only person who…
· Bryan Ke
A stem cell donor who was set to help save a dying Orange County, California mother from leukemia was barred from entering the United States. Helen Huynh is a Vietnamese mother living with her family in Garden Grove, California, where doctors at UCI Medical Center believe that…
· Ryan General
China recently claims to have developed a sophisticated missile interceptor system that can stop incoming projectiles flying at hypersonic speeds. People’s Liberation Army’s top defense contractor China Aerospace Science and Industry Corp. announced in a recent report that it…
· Editorial Staff
Following South Korea and the United States’ decision to deploy the former’s Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD), China, worried about the system’s proximity, is reportedly planning to restrict/ban Korean entertainment for an indefinite period. In response to North…
· Editorial Staff
In a new study on vaping, scientists discovered that the habit alters the immune system even more than regular cigarette smoking. E-cigarettes affect significantly more genes necessary for upper airway defense than conventional cigarettes — and we are talking about hundreds. The…
· Editorial Staff
If you thought websites making you type in indecipherable phrases through their CAPTCHA tests was frustrating, you’re lucky you’re not a China Railway ticket buyer. The national railway operator of the People’s Republic of China is employing a new verification system for booking…
· Max Chang
Google, Yahoo and other tech giants are more likely to hire Asians as computer programmers than to promote them to management and executive positions, according to new research. The study was conducted by Ascend, a group focused on Asian business issues. They analyzed data filed…
· Editorial Staff
To college or not to college — it’s an important question for all millennials and entrepreneurs of a certain age. On the one hand, while there are the usual arguments for going for that four-year degree, such as the ones Harvard Business School professor Michael Norton gave to…
· Benny Luo
Anyone who follows the tech industry most likely have come across the name Jason Calacanis. In terms of being an entrepreneur, it’s safe to say that this man has gone through literally all the ups and downs of starting a business. After building a business valued at $70 million…
· Ryan General
Kristian Kabuay is a Filipino-American artist based in the San Francisco Bay Area who has taken it upon himself to push for the continued resurrection of Baybayin, a little-known indigenous script writing system from the Philippines that pre-dates Ferdinand Magellan’s…
· Eric Lafforgue
I first visited the Demilitarized Zone from North Korea in 2008. The DMZ is a stretch of land 250 km (155 miles) long and 4 km (2.48 miles) wide that serves as a buffer zone between North and South Korea. I went there five times before being banned by the North Korean regime. I…
· Carl Samson
Officers of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have arrested more than 100 Cambodian nationals with deportation orders throughout the country in recent weeks. Advocates claimed that some of the people who were taken into custody had been living in California’s…
· Ryan General
A recently implemented law banning any form of “insult” to the Chinese national anthem in China may also be enforced in Hong Kong soon, the local government revealed on Monday. Once adapted locally, the measure would effectively make “booing” during the playing of the shared…
· Ryan General
The Communist Party of China has now officially added Xi Jinping‘s ideology in the pages of its constitution, somehow placing him on similar status as the late Chairman Mao Zedong. Observers believe that having “Xi Jinping Thought” in the Communist Party constitution, alongside…
· Heather Johnson Yu
An article published by PETA has been causing a stir on Twitter for its purportedly culturally insensitive narrative on what it’s like to be an Asian vegan. The post is a series of images with captions asserting that Asians are treated a specific way for their chosen lifestyle.…
· Bryan Ke
India is now extensively conducting a series of tests to prepare for its second moon mission since 2008. The much anticipated Chandrayaan-2 launch is expected to happen in March 2018 and will operate on a $93 million budget. “It is logically an extension of the Chandrayaan-1…
· Bryan Ke
Toby Mendenhall, a man from Portland, Oregon who is accused and wanted for child sex crimes, was recently extradited back to the country from China. Mendenhall, 41, was booked at the Washington County Jail on Oct. 24, with a bail of $2.5 million, KOIN 6 reported.
· Heather Johnson Yu
The beloved Dr. Gene Tong was dragged through the roughest street in Los Angeles, an angry mob calling for his quick death by hanging. Dr. Tong fervently bargained for his life, begging his predominately White captors to take his money or his diamond ring, desperately hoping…
· Bryan Ke
Japanese-Korean singer Yasuo Namekawa, better known by his stage name in South Korea as Kangnam, is now under fire for his highly insensitive comments about the Republic of Ghana. In an episode of “My Ugly Duckling” which aired on Oct. 22 at SBS (Seoul Broadcasting System),…
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