Kim Jong-un’s daughter spotted in $2,800 Dior jacket as N. Korea suffers extreme poverty, starvation

North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un’s daughter, Kim Ju-ae, was seen in recent photos wearing a $2,800 Dior jacket.  As reported on March 17 by...

Major Chinatown organization announces opposition to Philadelphia 76ers’ arena plan

The Philadelphia Chinatown Development Corporation (PCDC) announced its formal opposition to the 76ers’s proposed arena near the city’s Chin...

S. Korea considering proposal for 69-hour work week

South Korea’s President Yoon Suk-yeol is reviewing a new proposal calling to reform the work week maximum to 69 hours.  In the proposal, whi...

Hong Kong tops Asia as city with most ultra-wealthy residents: report

Hong Kong is the Asian city with the highest number of ultra-wealthy property owners, according to a report released on Tuesday. Using a wea...

FBI docs: Kim Kardashian once took home $250K in trash bag after night of gambling with billionaire Jho Low

Reality TV star Kim Kardashian reportedly flew home carrying $250,000 in cash in a trash bag following a night of gambling with disgraced bi...

China’s ban on female lingerie models leads to lingerie-wearing male models in shopping livestreams

Lingerie-wearing male models have recently become a growing trend in Chinese e-commerce broadcasts after the government imposed a ban on wom...

Hong Kong is giving away 135,000 free round-trip tickets to Southeast Asia residents

Hong Kong is offering 135,000 free airline tickets to residents of Southeast Asia as part of a campaign to stimulate tourism after COVID-19 ...

Taiwan announces plan to pay tourists to visit

Taiwan announced new incentives last week in an attempt to bring in 10 million tourists by 2025 after visitor numbers plummeted to below 900...

South Korea smashes own world record for lowest fertility rate

South Korea’s fertility rate has dropped yet again, beating its own record for the world’s lowest fertility rate. According to Statistics Ko...

Shoichiro Toyoda, who brought Toyota to the US amid anti-Japanese sentiment, dies at 97

Toyota’s former president Shoichiro Toyoda died due to heart failure at the age of 97 on Feb. 14.  Shoichiro, the son of Toyota Motor Corp f...

Billionaire tech banker Bao Fan is latest executive to go missing in China

Shares of investment bank China Renaissance Holdings have plummeted after its chairman and CEO Bao Fan was reported missing. In a Thursday f...

Nvidia CEO hails ChatGPT as ‘greatest thing’ to happen in computing

Nvidia co-founder and CEO Jensen Huang recently expressed high praise for ChatGPT, declaring it one of the greatest things ever created in t...

Yale professor backpedals after floating ‘mass suicide’ for Japan’s aging population

An assistant professor at Yale is taking a softer stance on Japan’s aging society after stirring controversy by suggesting that the “elderly...

Hong Kong billionaire fugitive auctions Hermès bags for over $3 million

Hong Kong billionaire Joseph Lau sold 77 luxury handbags for 25.2 million Hong Kong dollars (approximately $3.2 million) in a recent online ...

Hong Kong campaign to give away over 500,000 plane tickets in bid to revive tourism

Hong Kong is offering free airline tickets, spending vouchers and special events in their efforts to bring travelers back after COVID-19 tra...

Manila store to allow customers to pay with onions

A discount store in the Philippines will be accepting onions as a mode of payment for select in-store items. As the prices of onions in the ...

Bill Gates says China’s rise is a ‘huge win for the world’

In a new interview, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said he views China’s global ascent as a “huge win for the world.” As ...

Filipino bride walks down the aisle with onion bouquet

As the prices of onions have soared in recent months in the Philippines, a Filipino bride chose practicality over traditional aesthetics by ...

Japan PM warns country will cease to ‘function as a society’ if population decline persists

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida declared a dire need for policies tackling the country’s declining birth rate, calling it “now or neve...

The BTS effect: Dior stock soars to all-time high following appointment of Jimin as global ambassador

French luxury fashion brand Dior saw an unprecedented surge in stock prices following the announcement of BTS member Jimin as its newest glo...

China’s population declines for the first time in 60 years

Before you read: China’s birth rates plummet as more women choose to not have babies due to COVID-related factors Young people in China are ...

Thai man refuses government help, lives in tree for 3 years

A 38-year-old Thai man has lived in a tree for three years out of embarrassment. Known as Charlie, the man is currently living in a tree in ...

Japanese woman spent $1.50 a day on food to buy 3 houses by age 34

Saki Tamogami, 37, lived extremely frugally for 16 years to achieve her dream of owning three houses by age 34. Tamogami’s dream first manif...

Japan’s top cosplayer made over $1.5 million in 2022, manager reveals

Top Japanese cosplayer Enako earned over 200 million yen (approximately $1.5 million) in revenue for 2022, according to her manager.  The ne...

Detroit Free Press editor resigns amid layoffs to help save employees’ jobs

Detroit Free Press Vice President and editor Peter Bhatia announced in a virtual staff gathering on Friday that he will resign from his pos...

Costco CFO confirms increase in membership prices

During an earnings call on Thursday, Costco CFO Richard Galanti confirmed that membership prices will soon be increasing.  Earlier this year...

Frozen food named ‘dish of the year’ in Japan

A Japanese restaurant guide has named frozen food Japan’s “dish of the year.” According to the Gurunavi Research Institute...

Vietnamese EV maker VinFast files US IPO, selects T-Mobile as internet provider

Vietnamese electric vehicle maker VinFast has filed for an initial public offering in the U.S. and selected T-Mobile as its connectivity pr...

Report: Singapore, NYC ranked most expensive cities to live in

The “Worldwide Cost of Living (WCOL) 2022” report, which was released on Wednesday by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), ranked Singapo...

Jimmy O. Yang praised for refusing to promote crypto platforms in wake of FTX lawsuit

Comedian Jimmy O. Yang revealed in July that he had refused multiple offers to promote crypto-related platforms because he did not want to ...

Asian nations dominate ranking of countries with most international students at US universities

Students from Asia ranked in the top 10 among the number of international students studying at universities in the U.S. According to the I...

Asia is home to 6 of the top 20 cities with the most millionaires

In a recent report by Henley and Partners, a firm that tracks global wealth, Asian cities accounted for six of the top 20 cities in the wor...

South Korean teen becomes world’s youngest billionaire

Kim Jung-youn, a South Korean heiress to the video game empire Nexon, has become the world’s youngest billionaire at 18 after her father’s ...

More immigrants than ever have become billionaires in the US

Forbes’ recently unveiled World’s Billionaire list for 2022 revealed that a record-number 92 American billionaires are immigrants. Topping...

Education Secretary Cardona: student loan relief and Inflation Reduction Act ‘really cancels itself out,’ naysayers are ‘un-American’ [interview]

U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona spoke with NextShark on Thursday to discuss student loan relief, inflation and the future of high...

KFC China forced to sell chicken feet due to inflation

KFC stores in China have reportedly begun selling chicken feet, giving customers a new finger-lickin’ experience. Instead of as a response...