Yes, certain kinds of reality TV actually make you a worse person, according to a new study from the London School of Economics. Even if you only watch “Keeping Up with the Kardashians” for one minute, this can have a negative effect on your ability to have compassion for the less fortunate. Ouch. The research […]
By the year 2020, Macau is set to dethrone Qatar to become the place with the highest per-capita gross domestic product. This would make Asia’s casino capital the richest place on the planet. Freshly-released data from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) shows that two years is all Macau needs to overtake Qatar, which is famously […]
More and more people have taken to sleeping in McDonald’s restaurants in Hong Kong, due to continued problems with the city’s housing situation. Oddly enough, a large number of these so-called “McRefugees” are not actually homeless, but are employed and have homes of their own. A study has emerged showing that the number of people […]
China’s #MeToo Movement has caught momentum recently, with stories of sexual abuse and harassment emerging concerning powerful figures in the media and non-profit sectors. More than 10 such men are looking at such charges, as women, and even other men, have been empowered by the stories of others, and have one by one come forward […]
Are they or aren’t they? Rumors that Indian actress and beauty queen Priyanka Chopra and US singer and actor Nick Jonas are engaged are flying around as Ms. Chopra was seen in Delhi hiding a diamond ring from the paparazzi in New Delhi on Monday, August 6. Perhaps the couple, who only started dating a […]
One of the best basketball players in history has also become a great philanthropist in his own community. Basketball star LeBron James has opened a school called “I Promise” in Akron, Ohio, where he was born and raised by a single mother. He went to live with a family of a local athletic coach, who […]
A man involved in the common modus operandi of people who ask for money in Chinese subways has been exposed to end up with thousands of dollars from attractive women commuters. Many people in subways have been approached by others asking for ten yuan, saying they need that amount for a ticket to go home. […]
Etta Ng, daughter of superstar Jackie Chan, along with her girlfriend, have appealed to the public for help because of homeless state. The two women claim that they are homeless because their parents are homophobic. Ms. Ng, 18, came out last year via an Instagram post, writing, “In case no one got the memo, I’m […]
In the South China Morning Post, journalist Alex Lo writes about how Hong Kong’s denizens can be unbelievably kind and generous one minute, and then openly racist and unspeakably rude the next. Mr. Lo cites his fellow Post writer, Michael Chugani, who is a Hong Kong-American Indian journalist, as an example of this. Mr. Chugani […]
