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Chinese-American Author Mocked at Texas High School, Calls Students Out Online

Highland Park High School administrators have issued an apology to best-selling author Jamie Ford after the student assembly suddenly burst into applause while he spoke about Japanese internment camps. Ford, author of “Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet,” visited the high…

· Carl Samson

Chinese Authorities Allegedly Force Man to Get Vasectomy For Having Too Many Kids

A wounded father in China claims he was assaulted and forced into sterilization by local authorities. Hu Zhenggao described the incident over Weibo on Saturday, AsiaOne reported. He said it happened during the Chinese New Year when he returned to Luokan, his hometown in…

· Khier Casino

Asian American Author Orders the Saddest Caesar Salad of All Time, Twitter Erupts

A tweet by New York Times bestselling author Celeste Ng went viral when she posted a photo of an underwhelming salad that she was served at a hotel in New Orleans. Ng, the author of “Everything I Never Told You,” accompanied the picture with the caption, “This is not what I…

· Carl Samson

Helpless Students Watch School Authorities Smash Their Confiscated Electronics

Students of one vocational school in China had to accept the fact that their electronics are gone forever — as they watched them get brutally smashed by school officials. The school, located outside of Chengdu, literally axed banned electronic appliances found in the students’…

· Ryan General

Chinese Authorities Seize 10 Million Fake Feminine Hygeine Pads

Two suspects were arrested in China for allegedly manufacturing over 10 million fake female sanitary pads. The potentially unsafe counterfeit feminine hygiene products, which are packaged using popular commercial brand names, are produced very cheaply but sold at normal prices…

· Ryan General

Chinese Authors Answer: ‘Why Do White Guys Marry Ugly Chinese Girls?’

A number of perplexed Chinese have long been wondering why Westerners tend to always date the less attractive Chinese women. The topic “Why do laowai (foreigner) marry ugly Chinese girls?”, while it sounds silly for many as we’ve often been told that “beauty is in the eye of the…

· Ryan General

Korean Author is Tired of Being Told to ‘Improve’ Herself So She Can Find a Man

During her early 20’s, Korean author Lee Jin-song was constantly told by people around her on how she can “improve” herself so she can do better in the dating scene. In an interview with The Korea Herald, Lee recalled how tips telling her how to look and act in certain ways came…

· Editorial Staff

Shiba Inu is Upset He’s Not Allowed on the Subway, Gets Carried Out by Authorities

One determined Shiba Inu determined to live his life-long dream of riding the subway was sadly foiled in his plot when he was so close to finally riding the subway. The shiba walked into the the Kitaoji Station in Kyoto, Japan trailing alongside two humans going through the…

· Editorial Staff

Man Reveals How Scam Artists Hack Amazon to Become ‘Best Selling’ Authors

Brent Underwood made headlines last month after uploading a photo of his foot to Amazon Books to prove how easy it is to become an Amazon “bestselling” author. He executed the stunt after he became fed up with individuals putting up obscure content on Amazon in order to get the…

· Ryan General

Author Randomly Decides to Check Her Junk Mail, Wins $150,000

You might want to skim over your junk email next time before you click “delete all” as you might miss out on some surprises. Australian author Helen Garner would have missed out on a huge cash prize if she hadn’t gone through her spam messages, reports the Sydney Morning Herald.…

· Editorial Staff

Homeless Man Becomes Bestselling Author After Writing a Book About Being Homeless

A Parisian beggar is now a bestselling author after his book detailing his life as a homeless man sold nearly 50,000 copies.

· Editorial Staff

Adorable Minions Try Selling Bananas in China, Gets Stopped by Authorities

Images of Minions (from the movie “Despicable Me”) selling bananas on the streets of Beijing, China, recently went viral on Weibo, China’s version of Twitter. Netizens’ hearts were melted by the sheer adorableness of the photos. “Big-eyed adorable Minions pulled over on the…

· Augustine Reyes Chan

Author Reveals the Real Difference Between ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ and the Real Wall Street

John LeFevre, the British-born former banker behind Goldman Sachs Elevator, has just substantiated for those outside the insular world of investment banking that the behavior on Wall Street is spot on with how the movie “Wolf of Wall Street” portrayed it. One discrepancy between…

· Benny Luo

Bestselling Author Tim Ferriss Reveals How to Master Any New Skill in Record Time

Tim Ferriss’ entrepreneurial journey began when he founded BrainQuicken in 2001. It was his first company and focused on selling nutritional supplements online. He ended up selling it to a private equity firm in 2010. In between that timeframe, he wrote his first bestselling…

· Max Chang

This Woman’s Innovative ‘Resumé’ Thoroughly Impressed Airbnb’s CEO

Nina Mufleh always wanted to work for Airbnb. After moving from the Middle East, Mufleh lived in San Francisco for a year, unable to land a single interview with the company after months of submitting job applications, answering listings and sending emails to the company — until…

· Carl Samson

Malaysian Billionaire Reportedly Bought Miranda Kerr $10 Million in Diamonds

In an expanded crackdown of assets allegedly bought with stolen cash from a Malaysian development fund, the U.S. Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit to claim a set of diamonds gifted to model Miranda Kerr by her billionaire ex-boyfriend Jho Low. Low, a Penang-born tycoon,…

· Ryan General

Man Caught on Camera Bullying Elderly Asian Man, Attacks Witness Trying to Stop Him

An elderly Asian man was recently on the receiving end of an unprovoked racist tirade from a white male in the province of Ontario, Canada. The incident, which is now under the investigation of York Regional Police hate crimes unit, was fortunately captured on a dash cam video…

· Carl Samson

Netizens Outraged After Chinese Tourist Proudly Destroys 3,000-Year-Old Rock Structure

A Chinese man is being condemned in social media after mercilessly destroying an ancient rock formation by kicking it repeatedly. The uncivilized act took place in a cave in Songtao County, Guizhou Province where the tourist visited along with two other companions.

· Ryan General

Man Cuts Workers’ Safety Lines from High-Rise Building Because of Loud Music in Korea

Korean authorities recently arrested a man who allegedly killed one construction worker and endangered another’s life after cutting the safety ropes which attached the victims to a high-rise building. The 41-year old suspect, identified only by his last name Seoh, is reportedly…

· Ranier Maningding

White People Refuse To Acknowledge Racism, So They’re Trending #AsianPrivilege Instead

Editor’s Note: Ranier Maningding is a copywriter and mastermind behind the social justice page “The Love Life of an Asian Guy“. The opinions expressed in this piece are solely his own. I don’t trust anything white people have to say about race — probably because they say asinine…