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Meet the Trendy Maltese People on Instagram Are Falling in Love With
A diminutive pooch has gained a huge fan base on Instagram through his adorable outfits. The dog is Toby, a 10-year-old Maltese owned by Vancouver resident Joyce Chen. Chen set up Toby’s Instagram account three years ago and it currently has over 101,000 followers.
· Editorial Staff
This Restaurant in Japan Might Have Started a Butter on Sushi Trend
@yoshitch There’s yet another food item made better by butter (that you wouldn’t have guessed): sushi. @_SSK321 The Jinen chain of restaurants in Japan has a surprising hit on their hands with their unagi butter sushi, according to RocketNews24.
· Laura Dang
Hunky Asian Guys Have Started a ‘Hot Street Worker’ Trend
Hunky, shirtless male employees appears to be the hot new marketing strategy for food vendors in Taiwan. One of the first examples of the recent trend was 26-year-old Yi Tin Chen, dubbed “Tawian’s hottest bean curd seller.”
· Editorial Staff
A Disturbing New Fitness Challenge is Going Viral in China
Another Chinese fitness challenge is sweeping across the net and it’s called the paper-thin waist test, or “A4 waist.” The test is pretty self-explanatory: To test and see whether you are physically fit by paper size standards, hold up a 21 cm by 29.7 cm (8.2 inches by 11.7…
· Editorial Staff
Kenyan Girl Gets Free Trip to China After Posting These Photos on Facebook
The old cliché “fake it till you make it” couldn’t be truer for a Kenyan girl who dreamt of visiting China and got her wish fulfilled after Photoshopping herself into pictures of several of the country’s famous landmarks. Seve Gat wanted to go to China badly but couldn’t afford…
· Max Chang
Gay Men in China Have Fake Marriages with Lesbians to Make Their Parents Happy
Within the deeply rooted traditions of Chinese family culture, gays and lesbians in China resort to marrying each other to give their families the illusion that they are in a conventional relationship. It’s a growing trend in a massive country where homosexuality is legal, but…
· Editorial Staff
We Asked an Immigration Lawyer How to Move to Canada if Donald Trump Became President
On Super Tuesday, poll results showed that presidential candidate Donald Trump was a force to be reckoned with, or more specifically, feared — Google searches for “How to move to Canada” spiked 350%. Searches for “Move to Canada” are higher than at any time in Google history…
· Benny Luo
He Discovered Kickstarter When He Was a Sophomore at UCLA — Now He’s Making a Fortune
Crowdfunding has become major trend in the last couple years with the advent of popular sites like Kickstarter and Indiegogo. In 2014, crowdfunding brought in a total of $16 billion, according to Forbes. Steve Elliott Ng, 23, is a recent UCLA college graduate who’s raised over…
· Laura Dang
Meet Katharina Andresen — The Second Youngest Billionaire in the World
While the internet has been all over Alexandra Andresen, recently named the youngest billionaire in the world at age 19, many may have overlooked her stylish, jet-setting older sister, the second youngest billionaire in the world. Though a year apart, the billionaire sisters…
· Editorial Staff
Nokia Failed Because They Did the One Thing That Drives Most Companies into the Ground
In September 2013, NOKIA announced that they had been acquired by Microsoft in a deal valued at $7.17 billion. At the time, Nokia’s CEO Stephen Elop ended his speech with the following words. “We didn’t do anything wrong, but somehow, we lost.”
· Stefanie Williams
Yelp Worker Who Got Fired For Complaining About Her Pay Gets Torn Apart in One Blog Post
Last Friday, Yelp employee Talia Jane wrote a post to her CEO complaining about her compensation, which worked out to be around $8 and hour, according to her. She was fired from her job a few hours later after sharing the post via Twitter. Jane’s post stirred up a huge debate on…
· Benny Luo
How Snapchat Celebrities Make up to $100,000 a Week
Chris Carmichael may not be a name you recognize, but he’s one of the top Snapchatters in the world — an impressive feat considering most of the top users on the platform are already established celebrities. Based in Los Angeles, Carmichael, 28, has been able to build a…
· Editorial Staff
Raising Taxes on the Rich Won’t Solve Income Inequality, Says 26-Year-Old MIT Economics Grad
A 26-year-old MIT grad student’s proposed theory on income inequality has challenged one of the most influential economics concepts of this century. Last year, Matthew Rognlie, a student on his way to earning his doctoral degree at MIT, posted a comment to a section of a popular…
· Editorial Staff
This Iconic Japanese Company is Responsible For Those Viral Breakable Chopsticks
The source of the mysterious breakable chopsticks has been solved! The thick top part of some disposable wooden chopsticks has recently been discovered to be a chopstick rest that keeps the ends of the utensils off the table while eating food.
· Editorial Staff
Young Chinese City Dwellers Look Very Different When Visiting Their Parents in the Countryside
Many Chinese city dwellers apparently dress down when visiting their families for the Spring Festival. Through this collection of pictures from Chinese netizens found on Weibo and through NetEase (via Shanghaiist), one can see how young people in China style switch from trendy…
· Ryan General
Target Australia Just Showed the World How You’re Supposed to Market Lingerie
A fashion store chain from the land down under is teaching the world a thing or two about body diversity. Target Australia recently cast three plus-sized models to be part of their Valentine’s Day gift guide, which continues a trend the store started last year. Mic reports that…
· Editorial Staff
All Supermarkets in France Are Now Required to Give Unsold Food to the Needy
The French government enacted a law on Wednesday making it mandatory for supermarkets in France to donate unwanted food to food banks or charities. The petition was launched by local councilman Arash Derambarsh and was unanimously passed by the country’s senate, reports the…
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Woman Sits on a Toilet Naked For Two Days Straight in the Name of Art
A Brooklyn artist has let her feelings about the contemporary art world known by sitting on a toilet two days straight while nude. Bushwick-based Lisa Levy, 59, put on a performance art exhibit at Christopher Stout Gallery on Saturday and Sunday to protest the “pretense and BS…
· Laura Dang
Meet the Playboy ‘Playmate of the Year’ Who Now Makes Up to $600 a Day Trading Stocks
Playboy’s 2014 Playmate of the Year is a day trader and an aspiring doctor who is also penning a book on finance for women. Kennedy Summers, 28, is both beauty and brains as proven by her rather atypical direction in career choices. Summers, who first appeared in Playboy as Miss…
· Laura Dang
Ivanka Trump Designs the Perfect Purse For Women Who Always Need to Charge Their Phones
As Ivanka Trump surely knows, life is busy for a working woman and cell phone battery life should be the least of anyone’s worries. That’s why the successful businesswoman and soon-to-be mother-of-three is introducing wearable tech for those on the go. Trump has the solution for…