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In a massive three-state drug bust, authorities have arrested 35 people and seized a huge amount of fentanyl. As CNN reports, the quantity of fentanyl seized in the search could kill somewhere around 14 million people. The U.S. Justice Department traced the source of some of the deadly opioids to Shanghai, China. In the process of the […]
Jeremy Lin made headlines earlier this summer when he shed tears while discussing his free agency. Now, the former Toronto Raptors guard has signed a deal with the Chinese Basketball Association’s Beijing Ducks, according to Bleacher Report. Lin confirmed the news on Twitter and Instagram: Lin played on eight different organizations during his career in […]
Three luxury fashion houses—Versace, Coach, and Givenchy—have issued apologies to Chinese consumers after t-shirts released by the respective brands allegedly undermined China’s territorial claims over Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Macau. Over the weekend, Versace apologized for a t-shirt that listed Hong Kong and Macau as independent countries rather than semi-autonomous, special administrative regions of China. Yang Mi, an […]
Hong Kong is still reeling from a horrific attack that apparently targeted pro-democracy demonstrators. On Sunday night, a group of men donning white T-shirts entered a city subway station and began beating people with wooden sticks and metal pipes. The attack, which occurred amid on-going protests against mainland China, were captured on video by a number of victims, […]
Sixty-four-year-old Hong Kong actor Simon Yam, who has appeared in over 200 films and TV series since the ’70s, was stabbed onstage during a promotional event in Zhongshan, China. As BBC reports, Yam was speaking during the event when a man walked onstage to attack him. Fans of the actor captured the disturbing moment on video, in […]
On May 10, President Donald Trump raised tariffs by 15 percent on $200 billion worth of Chinese imports. The change is Trump’s response to China not accepting his latest trade deal proposal. While sneakers were not part of this most recent increase, they could be affected in future. Today, Trump proposed to an additional 25-percent increase […]
Avengers: Endgame has an opportunity to break the worldwide record for an opening weekend. The era-ending film could break the series’ own record for single biggest take at the global box office on an opening weekend, thanks to a few key factors. The biggest single factor is China being on the same page with the […]
On Tuesday, Angels slugger Mike Trout made news by establishing a new MLB standard after signing a 12-year/$430 million contract. Also, some Belgian pigeon did the same for pigeon racing…though it didn’t generate quite as much buzz. That Belgian pigeon, named Armando, was purchased by a Chinese buyer who ponied up $1.4 million in a […]
Ryan Reynolds said that Deadpool 3 is “looking to go in a completely different direction” from the previous two films. While attending the premiere of a recut Deadpool 2 in China, the actor said that he wanted to get ahead of stagnation that might come to his years-long pet project, noting that “often, they reboot […]
What better way to celebrate the U.S. arrival of your inaugural Louis Vuitton men’s collection than with multiple massive art installations that are practically begging for Instagrammed interaction? That’s the move for LV and men’s wear artistic director Virgil Abloh. The prolific Off-White CEO shared a few glimpses at these experiences on Instagram Wednesday, noting […]
