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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…

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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…

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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.…

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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.

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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…

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New Research Reveals the ‘Real’ Reason Why Chinese Women Bound Their Feet

In China, foot binding was used on women in order to give them the coveted “golden lotus feet,” believing it would make women more desirable. However, a new research suggests that this might not have been the reason why women endured this painful practice. According to CNN,…

· Carl Samson

Chinese Boy Returns Home From School Only to Find He’s Been Abandoned

It was all love and joy for a kindergartner in China until, one day, he returned home from school to realize that his parents had left him. The sad incident occurred in Yueqing, Zhejiang Province, on May 16. Earlier in the day, the boy, four-year-old Xiao Rong, was dropped off…

· Ryan General

Parents of LGBT Singles Kicked Out of Shanghai’s Famous ‘Marriage Market’ By Police

For the very first time, Chinese parents of LGBTQ singles attempted to join the infamous marriage market in Shanghai on Saturday, only to receive an unpleasant welcome from the crowd. The parents, who were hoping to find potential mates for their gay or lesbian children, even…

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Sea Lion Pulls Terrified Little Girl Into the Water at Canadian Harbor

A young girl touring with her family near Richmond, British Columbia, was pulled into the water by a sea lion on Saturday and it was all caught on camera. In the heart-stopping video, which has since gone viral with more than 14 million views on YouTube, a group of tourists can…

· Ryan General

These Three Photos Are Going Viral For Flipping the Script on White People

A series of photos published in the May 2017 issue of “O, the Oprah Magazine” is tackling race in a unique way and sparking some heated discussions online. In the now viral images featured in the photo essay titled “Let’s Talk About Race”, American photographer Chris Buck…