Zack Snyder's Sci-Fi Epic Rebel Moon Scores Big for Netflix

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Zack Snyder is used to topping the box office, but his latest release has conquered a different playing field.

A Vietnamese restaurant that drowned up to 300 cats a month has shut. Its owner apologized for slaughtering pets.

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Vu Quang Nguyen, Program Manager of Companion Animals for HSI Vietnam, carries cats out of the slaughterhouse. The cats were transported by truck to a cat shelter at the Thai Nguyen University of Agriculture and Forestry.
Vu Quang Nguyen, Program Manager of Companion Animals for HSI Vietnam, carries cats out of the slaughterhouse.

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I've spent the past decade tutoring old money families in Hong Kong. There are 3 things I've learned about the world of big money in Asia.

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Jerome Barty-Taylor, 35, is the owner of a private education company in Hong Kong.
Jerome Barty-Taylor, 35, is the owner of a private education company in Hong Kong.

Jerome Barty-Taylor

A taxi driver in Tokyo was arrested after being accused of running over a pigeon

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A black taxi in Shinjuku and a perching pigeon.
Ozawa is accused of killing a pigeon intentionally with his car.

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Columbia's New Star Wars Winter Collection Is Hoth as Hell

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Live out your Hoth fantasies—look, some Star Wars fans happen to prefer the characters when they’re stuck in freezing cold environments—with

I've lived between Singapore and NYC my entire life. Here are 3 ways the latter is better, and one way it isn't.

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Singapore skyline; New York skyline from Brooklyn
Singapore and New York City are both great, but I prefer the latter.

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A country just banned TikTok because it disrupts 'social harmony' and 'family structure'

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Two phones display the TikTok logo with the ByteDance logo in the background.
Nepal's government is no fan of TikTok.

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The fake doctors behind Asia's cosmetic surgery boom

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Unrealistic beauty standards are driving more and more people to seek out underground operators for cosmetic procedures.

In Thailand, unlicensed practitioners are known as "bag doctors" since they travel from client to client with all their tools of the trade in a bag.

Thousands of fish died after the sea in Thailand turned green

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The sea in eastern Thailand has been affected by a plankton bloom that has resulted in massive wildlife deaths.

Supply chains may be moving out of China and into Asia — but they aren't really decoupling from the country

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A worker assembles a motorbike at the Northstar Precision Vietnam factory in Vinh Phuc province.
A worker assembles a motorbike in Vietnam.

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