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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…
· Ranier Maningding
Last week, the BBC received intense backlash for their new show “Chinese Burn”, a series about three Asian women in London who go on dates and smash stereotypes. Sadly, the only thing “Chinese Burn” smashed was my faith in humanity because holy Dickbutt, I thought I was watching…
· Bryan Ke
A 51-year-old villager named Bo Chunlou from Ju County in Rizhao, eastern Shandong, China, accidentally found a way to become a millionaire after slaughtering one of his pigs. The extremely rare object, which is known as a bezoar, is a small, stony solid mass that is formed in…
· Carl Samson
Wang Junkai, leader of China’s top teen boy band TFBoys, was praised by English theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking after asking about life beyond earth. Wang, 18, also known as Karry, took his curiosity to Weibo and asked Hawking how humanity should prepare for interstellar…
· Kyle Encina
A woman attempted to take her own life by jumping off a bridge and into a river near Fuyang in Anhui Province, China, but her plan was foiled when her clothing simply refused to let her drown. While emergency response teams already made their way to the scene of the incident,…
· Bryan Ke
“Mom it hurts,” these are the final words of the 11-year-old student to his mother after he was accidentally hit by a speeding truck in Taoyuan, Taiwan, on November 24 right before he was rushed to the hospital where succumbed to his injuries. The boy, whose name has been left…
· Bryan Ke
A popular children’s book in Japan is making the rounds online for teaching children kanji, logographic Chinese characters adopted for Japanese writing, with the help of poop and toilet humor. “Unko Kanji Doriru”, the book series roughly translated to “Poop Kanji Drills”, is…
· Ryan General
For decades, women in Kyrgyzstan have suffered from domestic violence, child marriage and bride kidnappings — issues that have long been ignored in the Kyrgyz parliament. Enter Aida Kasymalieva, the youngest female member of parliament (MP) in the Muslim-majority country in…
· Ryan General
EA’s Star Wars Battlefront II will go down in video game history as the final straw that led to one Asian American politician taking a stand against microtransactions and loot boxes, the type of in-game monetization typically found in free-to-play mobile gaming but now applied…
· Carl Samson
The son of a Japanese-American infantry man who saved 130 Japanese soldiers and civilians in the Battle of Saipan in 1944 has started looking for their family members. Lawrence Kubo, 67, expressed his intent to hear the families’ stories of his father, Hoichi “Bob” Kubo of…
· Bryan Ke
A company in Japan has announced it will give family support benefits to its otaku employees who are “married” to their beloved anime characters. Whether it’s a waifu, term coined to describe an anime “wife”, or husbando, the counterpart to waifu, which is a fandom slang for…
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