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News
Malaysian Woman With No Hands Sews PPE for Front Line Workers
A Malaysian woman is inspiring many people online by sewing personal protective equipment (PPE) for the frontliners battling the COVID-19 pa...
Bryan Ke
Opinion
5 Reasons You Shouldn’t Listen to Your Tiger Parent’s Career Advice
This is a message for all of the young people who grew up in an immigrant household: be true to yourself and do what you love, even if your ...
Ernestine Siu
Uncategorized
Miss Vietnam’s Historic Rise From a Poor Family to the Miss Universe Pageant is Incredibly Inspiring
“From nothing, here I am. I can do it so you can do it too!” said Miss Vietnam H’hen Nie as she addressed a cheering audie...
Ryan General
Feature
Badminton Player Prepares for Paralympic Games Tokyo 2020
This article was originally published on Shuttlers. Meet Tim Wong Chun-yim, a 30-year-old professional disabled badminton player who is now ...
Asia
Chinese Family Spends 6 Months Working Out Together, Achieves INSANE Results
A Chinese family has gone viral after showing off the results of their 6-month body transformation. XY Jesse, a 32-year-old photographer, h...
Editorial Staff
Motivation
Retired Japanese Tennis Star Harvests Clams in Freezing Water, Reminds You to Never Give Up
Meet Matsuoka Shuzo. He’s a retired tennis-player-turned-motivational-life-coach known throughout the world for his inspirational quot...
Heather Johnson Yu
Viral
Uncle Who Spent a Month’s Salary to Give His Nephew a Playstation Gets Repaid With a Car 15 Years Later
Meet Steven Ng. He’s a 24-year-old entrepreneur who runs Elliot Havok, a startup that sells high-end watches and wallets at affordable...
Chinese Man Has Spent the Last 50 Years Looking After His Son With Polio
Qian Guanhua, 80, of Zhejiang Province has taken care of his son, Qian Yougen, who has suffered from polio for the past 50 years, melting th...
Khier Casino
Jeremy Lin’s Mom Took Money From Her 401K To Help Get Him into the NBA
Jeremy Lin is arguably the biggest sports star right now within the Asian community. Ever since his epic Linsanity run in 2011, Lin has buil...
Business
This CEO Says He’s Made $250 Million By Simply Taking Fridays Off
Brian Scudamore, 02E Brands’ CEO and founder, has been taking his Fridays off for the past five years and claims that it has dramatically he...
After Struggling at Work, An Artist Did THIS to Stop Others From Going Through the Same
Six years ago, Alex Noriega was struggling at work and wanted to figure out what he was doing wrong. So he started a blog called Stuff No On...
Naga Kataru: Man Who Created Google Alerts Now Makes $2.5 Million a Year Farming
A promising eight-year career with tons of perks and growth potential as an engineer at the world’s largest tech company did not keep ...
Ex-Homeless Man Gives $10,000 to a High School After Students Helped Him Years Earlier
An act of kindness toward a homeless man by two high school students years ago has been paid forward in spades to future students. It was th...
Son Brings His Paralyzed Father to College to Take Care of Him While He Studies
Zhao Delong, a college student from Henan, China suffered from polio when he was young, which made him unable to walk. However, thanks to h...
Misc
An 11-Year-Old Beauty Vlogger Refuses to Let Her Condition Hold Her Back From Success
An 11-year-old beauty vlogger who has garnered 2 million video views does not let the rare condition that has caused her to have a craniofac...
After His Daughter Left the Room, He Took One Look at His Son-in-Law and His Heart Sank
In a commercial created by BBDO ad agency in Mumbai, India, what looks like a normal laundry detergent commercial turns into something much...
This 13-Year-Old Kid Has an Insanely Bright Future
Many successful people today will tell you they’ve exhibited signs of an entrepreneurial mindset at a young age. When angel investor G...
Homeless Man Has Been Begging on the Streets For Two Years – But Not For Money
A homeless man in California spends his days waiting for passersby on downtown Sacramento streets, not to ask for money, but to hand out res...
Lifestyle
The Incredible Story of How Ang Lee Went From Jobless to an Oscar Winning Director
Renowned Taiwanese-born American film director, screenwriter and producer Ang Lee has directed great classics including “Crouching Tiger, Hi...
Laura Dang
One Comic Perfectly Sums Up Why You Shouldn’t Look Down on Low-Wage Workers
A comic by an unknown author showing how many might see low-wage workers has been widely circulating on Twitter. While simple, it shows how ...
Ex-NBA All-Star Misses Out on Billions After Turning Down 10 Percent of Nike 30 Years Ago
Basketball Hall of Famer Spencer Haywood won a gold medal in the 1986 Olympics, is a four-time NBA All-Star, was a part of the 1980 Lakers c...
Here’s What Chris Pratt Wrote on Instagram at 3AM After Working 80 Hours Straight
After a long day of shooting his new movie, actor Chris Pratt shared an inspiration message on Instagram. It’s a great reminder for wh...
Why You Should Stop Saying ‘Sorry’ and Replace it With ‘Thank You’
Yao Xiao is Chinese-born illustrator who now resides in New York. In a recent cartoon, she explains why replacing “I’m sorryR...
People Who Post Silly Inspirational Quotes on Facebook Are Actually Idiots, Study Finds
Ever find yourself scrolling through your Facebook newsfeed hoping to find useful information only to be bombarded with nonsensical life quo...
Sebastian Dillon
Mr. Rogers Said THIS to Him in 1981, But What Happened 20 Years Later Will Make You Cry
Many of us watched Fred Rogers and his T.V. show “Mister Rogers Neighborhood” growing up. His lessons were always simple, but h...
Interviews
He Grew Up in a Mud Hut in Africa — Now He’s an Uber Driver For Hollywood Celebrities
If there’s someone who encompasses all the qualities of a survivor, it’s 35-year-old Oumarou Idrissa. Idrissa made headlines last week afte...
Benny Luo
A 13-Year-Old Girl Wins $70,000 SUV From Charity Raffle, Immediately Gives it Back
A young girl who won a $70,000 SUV from a charity raffle donated the car back without a moment’s hesitation. Thirteen-year-old Erin Byrnes f...
In Pictures: Chinese Student Who Lost Both His Arms Starts His First Day of College
Chao Peng is a first-year student at the Sichuan University School of Law in Chendu, China. Because he lost his arms when he was younger, Pe...
One Comic Perfectly Sums Up Why Most of Us Don’t Truly Enjoy Life
Ajit Johnson is an artist and scientist currently working on his PhD at the University of Edinburgh. The following comic is one of his more ...
Ajit Johnson
Something Beautiful Happens When You Put a Nursing Home and a Preschool Together
Many around the world find Americans’ general treatment of the elderly appalling. Older Americans often live completely independently, sepa...
How a Single Instagram DM From Rihanna Changed This 25-Year-Old Woman’s Life Forever
Ever wondered who is actually looking at your public Instagram profile? Well, it could be Rihanna. The famous singer recently recruited a wo...
A Father Found His Teen Daughter in Bed Naked With a Stranger — Here’s What He Did Next
Being a parent is not an easy task. When you catch your 17-year-old daughter one morning in bed with someone you don’t know, how would...
Goldman Sachs President Reveals ‘The Only Way You Are Going to Succeed’ at Anything
Most of us know there is no one thing that will for sure lead you to success — it’s usually a combination of several things including ...
Jacob Wagner
Entertainment
New Toyota Japan Ad Tells a Heartwarming Story From Two Different Perspectives
Toyota Japan recently released a heartwarming commercial telling a beautiful story from the perspectives of a daughter and another of her f...
One Video Sums up Everything That’s Wrong With Haggling With Street Vendors
Many of us are taught that we should haggle for better prices whenever we do business with street vendors. ...
Natalie Portman Explains to New Harvard Grads Why Experience is Overrated
Oscar-winning actress Natalie Portman returned to her alma mater to deliver an inspirational commencement speech this past week. Portman re...
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