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A video of an imam, identified as Arafat, who stayed inside a mosque to lead in prayer in the middle of the recent earthquake in Indonesia has gone viral on social media. The Islamic leader was preaching at the Musholla As-Syuhada mosque in Denpasar, Bali when the earthquake struck near the neighboring island of Lombok. The […]

Jackie Chan said in his blogpost that he was caught in the middle of a “massive mudslide” while filming his next film, “Project X”. The 64-year-old Hong Kong action said the “weather suddenly changed and our crew were caught in a massive mudslide”. He and his crew are filming “Project X” in an undisclosed location […]

An American Sikh was viciously attacked by White supremacists while he was placing campaign signs for local Republican candidates along a road in Stanislaus County in California on July 31. The supremacists screamed to the Sikh man, Surjit Malhi, “You’re not welcome here! Go back to your country!” during the attack. They not only attacked the 50-year-old […]

A white man in Los Angeles who wanted to get home early, dragged out another man who became unconscious after having a seizure in the train. The incident happened on a Metro Blue Line in Long Beach, California around 10:30 p.m. on August 1, and the unconscious man was identified as a South Asian – […]

A Malaysian cosmetics entrepreneur has recorded himself crying as his Ferrari 458 Italia went up in flames on the Malaysian Highway on Thursday (July 26). The Italian supercar is estimated to have cost about $442,000. In refusing to speculate how the incident happened, the entrepreneur, Datuk Seri Aliff Syukri Kamarzaman (age 30) said he trusted the authorities […]

A theatrical poster of “Crazy Rich Asians”  was vandalized with racist comments in Vancouver, Canada. The vandalism happened ahead of the movie’s worldwide opening on August 15. Twitter user @jojocake found the poster installed in a bus shelter in an “affluent neighborhood” and said: “A bus shelter with this poster in an affluent neighbourhood in Vancouver […]

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 DePaul University School of Music student from Shanghai, China was kicked off of an American Airlines flight out of Miami after she checked in online for both herself and her cello. Jay Tang said his wife Jingjing Hu was sitting in her seat on the American Airlines flight 2457 from Miami International Airport to […]

President Donald Trump absolved himself from colluding with the Russians during the 2016 Presidential Election and has shifted the blame to Hillary Clinton and the Democrats. He said in a tweet on Monday that “collusion with Russia was very real”, but that it involved the Democrats. He demanded a new federal investigation of Hillary Clinton […]

A shelter for vulnerable girls in Bihar, India has garnered media attention after police arrested the shelter-owner for repeatedly raping almost 40 his residents. The girls, between the ages of 7 and 14, said that they were tortured, starved, injected with drugs, and raped almost every night. The Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POSCO) court […]

Chinese billionaire Jack Ma explains in his book “ALIBABA: The House That Jack Ma Built,” how his policy of not hiring the best candidates for a job during its early days eventually paid off for him. The book, written by China-based investment adviser Duncan Clark in 2016, says how Ma had an unflattering opinion of those […]

A Facebook Page which claims that popular US movie star Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson is giving away $100 million each to 100 lucky winners is fake. The Page ‘promises’ users who share the viral video that all they have to do win the $1 million prize money is to “like, share and comment” on the video. […]