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Actor, 'restaurant kid' Ming-Na Wen reflects on the Asian American experience in 70 recipes
Ming-Na Wen's acting breakthrough was in the 1993 film adaptation of Amy Tan’s novel “The Joy Luck Club.”
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Ming-Na Wen's recipe for 'Popo's Wontons' is as good as gold in her family
In her new cookbook, “Have You Eaten Yet
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Vietnamese police arrest 12 suspected of prowling city streets at night, snatching cats for meat
Police in Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City have arrested 12 men suspected of running a ring that stole and resold about 2,700 cats for meat
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Kenyan prisoners play chess for fun behind bars and to help with rehabilitation
Kenya’s Department for Correctional Services has introduced chess across the country’s prisons since 2024, in one of the most prominent institutional carceral chess programs in Africa
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California scientist wins a Nobel Prize, then makes school lunches for his kids
Dr. Karl Deisseroth spent hours fielding congratulatory calls after learning that he had won a Nobel Prize for medicine for helping to open a new field of brain science called optogenetics
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Wagging tails fill a Philippine church where priests bless pets for St. Francis feast
A church in the Philippine capital has celebrated the feast day of St. Francis of Assisi with a special blessing for animals
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Arkansas gem hunter finds a diamond he claims could be worth $1 million
Thousands of gem enthusiasts visit the Crater of Diamonds State Park in Murfreesboro, Arkansas, each year
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Plínio Trump, Mick Jagger and Samurai Taxi Driver keep Brazil's tradition of joke candidates alive
In Brazil, candidates like Plínio Trump bring a surreal element to elections by impersonating famous figures
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South Korea embraces a huge shark slowly circling a canal in the country's biggest port city
A huge gray shark named Bukangi has become an honorary mascot in South Korea’s biggest port city
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Gentle giant Backpack declared winner of Alaska's Fat Bear Week
After a week of fierce competition, Backpack emerged victorious as Fat Bear Week champion, the heftiest bear of Alaska’s Katmai National Park and Preserve
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