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· Augustine Reyes Chan
Everyone is Buying This Bruce Lee DJing T-Shirt After Watching the ‘Avengers’ Sequel
Disney and Marvel Studios’ “Avengers: Age of Ultron” smashed the box office this weekend, pulling in $191.3 million in the U.S. and giving it the second-best domestic opening weekend ever. It’s no surprise, then, that a T-shirt with an image of Bruce Lee that Robert Downey Jr.…
· Augustine Reyes Chan
A Chinese Restaurant is Offering Huge Discounts For Women in Short Skirts
A Jinan hot pot restaurant is offering steeply discounted meals to women that wear skimpy skirts, reports Sina News. Female customers whose hems are measured to be 33 centimeters (12 inches) above the knee by the restaurant are being offered a 90% discount on their food. In…
· Augustine Reyes Chan
How Two Penniless Korean Immigrants Launched an Apparel Empire Now Worth Billions
This is a story about success; this is about how Do Won “Don” Chang and his wife, Jin Sook, immigrated from Korea to California with nearly nothing, how Chang had to hold down three demeaning jobs at the same time to support his family, and how the couple finally opened up their…
· Max Chang
Chinese Company to Spend $15 Million on Four-Day Paris Vacation For 6,400 Workers
If you thought your company perks were great, you thought absolutely wrong. Tiens Group, a large Chinese company with 12,000 employees is sending 6,400 workers on an epic four-day vacation to Paris, France, according a report by The Guardian.
· Laura Dang
Study Reveals That Cell Phone Addiction Is Destroying Chinese Families
What does romance look like today?
· Augustine Reyes Chan
Almost 50% of Our Text is in Emojis, Instagram Reports
Emojis — images or icons used to express ideas or emotions in texts, emails and social media apps — are quickly becoming the universal language on Instagram. Happy faces, hearts and kissing lips abound — there are 866 emojis in total — are being used as the go-to shorthand more…
· Jacob Wagner
Chinese Segway Knock-off Company Buys Out Real Segway Company
Chinese startup Ninebot, a transportation robotics firm, has bought out Segway Inc., the American maker of the world’s most recognizable mall-cop scooter, for an undisclosed amount of money.
· Anthony Orona
Fortune’s 50 Greatest Leaders in the World are Not Who You’d Expect
Three months into 2015, our hard-working and observant colleagues at Fortune have already compiled and arranged a roster of the year’s exceptional for us to peer over, deeming them the “World’s Greatest 50 Leaders.”
· Waylae Gregoire
Meet the Woman Teaching Manners and Etiquette to China’s Elite
Last month, we highlighted a short series by GQ titled The Bling Dynasty that covered China’s blossoming culture of the newly rich and the hurdles their society faces with so many instant millionaires and billionaires popping up everywhere. One of those challenges has to do with…
· Editorial Staff
Here’s Where All the World’s 2,089 Billionaires Live
The U.S. and China now make up half of the world’s billionaires, and India has moved into third place for most billionaires, according to the Hurun Global Rich List 2015. At a record 2,089, there are more dollar billionaires in the world today than ever before, up by 222 from…
· Benny Luo
My 15 Minutes With Manny Pacquiao
While NextShark has done a lot of interviews in the past, it was our recent interview with world champion boxer Manny Pacquiao that really tested our ability to be efficient. As expected from a celebrity of Pacquiao’s caliber, his schedule was constantly filling up and changing.…
· Sarah Lesnar
How These Millennials Got Mark Cuban to Give Them $1 Million
Many entrepreneurs on “Shark Tank” have failed pitching their products because their startups were deemed not up to par with the standards of the sharks on the show. However, a team of entrepreneurs from Austin, Texas were recently able to secure an investment from the show’s…
· Sebastian Dillon
Hong Kong’s Chief Issues Hollow Apology for Bashing Poor People
CY Leung, Hong Kong’s chief executive known for his distaste for people who don’t make as much money as he does, just issued an apology that might as well have been said through clenched teeth.
· Benny Luo
I Had a REAL Conversation With Siri and it Was Awesome
One thing that almost all iPhone users today recognize is the original voice of Siri. Aside from the dozens of conversations and inappropriate questions we’ve asked her, we’ve never really put a face to the name before CNN outed voice-over actor Susan Bennett almost exactly a…
· Editorial Staff
This Chinese Billionaire Does Some Crazy Stuff Just to Stay Creative
Meet Huang Nubo. He is a Chinese billionaire and founder of property and leisure giant Beijing Zhongkun Investment Group.
· Max Chang
Hong Kong Leader: No Democracy Because Poor People Can’t Be Trusted
Hong Kong’s Chief Executive Chun-Ying Leung solidified his position as an elitist douche with his remarks in a recent interview. CY Leung, who was appointed by Beijing, gave an interview to the Financial Times, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal from his official…
· Benny Luo
VICE: Why You Must Break Rules in Order to Innovate
You may or may not know DJ Vice, but in case you don’t, you might recognize his track “The World is Our Playground,” which has been featured in Bud Light’s latest “Up For Whatever” campaign videos. Vice, who recently dropped the “DJ” from his name, has been DJing professionally…
· Max Chang
This New Knife Will Change the Way You Spread Butter Forever
Perhaps the greatest thing about innovation is that anything can be changed or added upon, no matter how insanely simple it is.
· Editorial Staff
Malaysia Airlines is Currently Losing $1.6 Million a Day Because Flights Are Near Empty [PHOTOS]
In March, Malaysia Airline Flight 370, disappeared suddenly while traveling from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. Last month, Flight 17 was shot down while flying over Ukraine. With the two tragedies tied to them, Malaysian Airlines has not been the most popular kid in the block. Even…
· Benny Luo
Dash Berlin: Why Success Can’t Be Reached Alone
I recently had the pleasure of sitting down with Dash Berlin after his spectacular show at Marquee Nightclub & Dayclub in Las Vegas. What I find most fascinating about this talented artist is not that he’s currently one of the hottest EDM DJs in the industry, or the fact that…