Angel Au-Yeung

Bio

Angel Au-Yeung holds a B.S. in Cognitive Neuroscience from UC San Diego and is currently an Associate Editor for LinkedIn. Born in Hong Kong and raised in San Francisco, she is fascinated by the world and the people that make it. Her day-to-day goals include being her own think tank and making sure she has a great dinner.
China Might Have Just Amped Up the Space Race
By Angel Au-Yeung
Last month, China conducted a successful test in space that involved a satellite using its new robotic arm extension to grab another satellite, giving a literal meaning to the arms race in outer space.  Satellites are of vital strategic value for…
Pinterest Valuation Might Not Live Up to All the Hype
By Angel Au-Yeung
Scrapbooking just reached a whole new level.  Pinterest, a virtual scrapbooking site that allows users to "pin" or aggregate images from around the internet onto a single collage-like interface, just won a $225 million round of equity funding, the…
Pandacam is Back, Baby
By Angel Au-Yeung
After 17 days, President Barack Obama signed legislation that will reopen the government, raise the debt ceiling … and reopen the Pandacam. The Pandacam is a popular 24-hour live stream featuring the Smithsonian National Zoo’s cuddliest inhabitants.…
Someone Poisoned Over 100 Elephants in Africa
By Angel Au-Yeung
The number of elephants that have died in Zimbabwe from cyanide poisoning in a continuing man-caused wildlife crisis throughout the Hwange National Park is now 102.  Poachers are killing elephants to hack off their tusks, which can lead to huge…
I Saw Hong Kong Get Freedom Of Press Taken Away, Now I'm Watching America Give It Up For Free
By Angel Au-Yeung
As Washington grinds to a halt, the political media freezes with it in time. And therein this rare moment of stillness journalists must come to heads with one question — how did we let this happen? Dan Froomkin attributes the government shutdown to…
3 "Super-Earths" That Could Support Extraterrestrial Life
By Angel Au-Yeung
A team of astronomers have discovered a record-breaking number of three habitable planets orbiting around a single nearby star, making those three planets good candidates in the search for "alien life". The star Gliese 667C is about one-third the…
Yahya Jammeh: How Wealthy Chinese Are Escaping to Hong Kong, Courtesy Of a West African Dictator
By Angel Au-Yeung
The People's Republic of China and the Gambia are continents apart and share few commonalities. The small West African coastline nation does not even hold diplomatic ties with China, preferring to maintain relations with Taiwan instead. Out of the…
Why Did Edward Snowden Flee to Hong Kong, Of All Places?
By Angel Au-Yeung
On June 9, from a hotel in Kowloon, Hong Kong, Edward Snowden, an American former contractor for the National Security Agency (NSA), came forward as the whistle-blower in one of the biggest internal leaks in U.S. intelligence history. He exposed…
China Sewer Pipe Baby: Don't Blame the Mother
By Angel Au-Yeung
A 22-year-old unwed woman in China's eastern Zhejiang province unexpectedly gave birth to her secret child in a bathroom and accidentally slipped the newborn into the sewage pipe of the squat toilet, according to the baby's mother. While she…
Gabriel Fernandez: 8-Year-Old's Beating Death Points to An Entire City's Failure
By Angel Au-Yeung
Despite multiple abuse referrals from relatives, teachers, and even other mothers at school, the Los Angeles County Department of Child and Family Services (DCFS) failed to prevent the brutal torture and ultimate death of an 8-year-old boy at the…