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A female reporter for the state-owned China Central Television (CCTV) was a‌rr‌est‌ed for a‌ssa‌u‌lt after making a scene and sl‌ap‌pin‌g a volunteer at a U.K. conference on Hong Kong autonomy. The conference, held in Birmingham on Sunday, was co-hosted by the U.K.’s Conservative Party Human Rights Commission and London-based NGO Hong Kong Watch. A Chinese Journalist […]

American President Donald Trump for the first time directly mocked Christine Blasey Ford’s testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee by casting doubt on her testimony during a campaign rally. Ford is an American professor of psychology at Palo Alto University and a research psychologist at the Stanford University School of Medicine, who publicly alleged that U.S. […]

Las Vegas police have re-opened a sexual assault case involving international soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo that occurred nearly a decade ago, after a Nevada woman filed a lawsuit against the athlete, claiming that he raped her in 2009. According to the Associated Press, the woman – 34-year-old model Kathryn Mayorga – further claimed that Ronaldo […]

A young Indonesian air traffic controller is being hailed as a hero after a devastating earthquake and tsunami there killed hundreds of people. Anthonius Gunawan Agung, 21, was the only person left in the control tower at the Air Traffic Tower of Mutiara Sis Al Jufri Airport in Palu when the magnitude-7.5 quake struck the […]

US President Donald Trump professed his “love” for North Korean leader Kim Jong Un yesterday, about two months after he met Kim at the highly anticipated US-North Korea summit that was held in Singapore. Speaking at a rally in West Virginia, President Trump indicated that he and Kim have long moved past their fraught Twitter […]

Popstar Barbra Streisand has bashed US President Donald Trump in a new song entitled ‘Don’t Lie To Me’ that will be a part of her new album ‘Walls’ – her first project in 13 years featuring mostly original tracks. In the new song, Streisand accused President Trump of not caring “when the world is burning”. […]

It rarely gets more bizarre than this: a group of kayakers were having a grand old time in the waters of New Zealand when one of them was suddenly smacked in the face by a seal that threw an octopus at him. The man who was sucker-punched in glorious fashion, Kyle Mulinder, revealed that he […]

A Malaysian man has donated 67 per cent of his liver to his teacher that he ‘hated’ while he was a student. Jerome Chin, a medical graduate, donated a big part his liver to his former primary school teacher Leong Fong Peng. The Star which first reported on this unusual human organ donation said Leong […]

United States Ambassador to the United Nations (UN) Nikki Haley explained that the peals of laughter at UN were a sign of genuine affection and respect for the US President Donald Trump. She said “(the world leaders) love how honest he is. It’s not diplomatic and they find it funny.” Haley went on ‘Fox & […]

A racist letter taking aim at a Canadian realtor of Asian descent has ruffled the feathers of a community. The letter which read in part, “Chinks and gooks are not welcomed in our neighborhood,” has caused a stir. ‘Chink’ is a disparaging term for a person of Chinese birth or descent, while ‘gook’ refers to a […]

A Chinese national was arrested in the US midwestern state of Chicago today for allegedly acting within the United States as an illegal agent of the People’s Republic of China. Ji Chaoqun, 27, a Chinese citizen residing in Chicago, worked at the direction of a high-level intelligence officer in the Jiangsu Province Ministry of State […]

Two Girls Guide leaders who had opposed new “equality & diversity” rules which compel units to let transgender-identifying males share showers and other facilities with girls as young as five were expelled from the organization. 12 leaders had earlier signed an open letter warning that the new policy raised safeguarding concerns. The open letter which started […]

A 58-year-old man accused of targeting and r‌‌‌a‌pi‌‌‌n‌g Asian women and eluding authorities for more than two decades has been ca‌ptu‌re‌d by the Sacramento ‌Pol‌‌i‌ce Department. Also known as the “NorCal Rapist,” Roy Charles Waller of Benicia, California was ar‌res‌te‌d while he was on his way to work at the University of California, Berkeley on Sept […]

A mere three days after their only child’s sudden death, a wealthy British couple illegally harvested his sperm in order to create a “designer grandson”. The couple’s actions contravene laws in the United Kingdom, where no person can extract another person’s semen without written consent even posthumously, under the Human Fertilization and Embryology Act 1990. To […]

Hong Kong carrier Cathay Pacific had to send one of their airplanes “back to the shop” after its own name was misspelled on the side of the plane. The blunder made Cathay Pacific become Cathay “Paciic” after leaving the letter “f” off of the word “Pacific”. In response to eagle-eyed netizens who spotted the error, […]