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…
GOP Staffer Kristen Anderson Fired After Reporting Sexual Harassment
By Angel Au-Yeung
A female staff member of the Iowa Senate Republican Caucus was fired last Friday with no reasons given just seven hours after she filed a memo to the staff director reiterating her previous claims of sexual harassment in the legislative…
Gas Pump Prank Fake: 'The Smoking Gun' Says Video is Bogus, Who Cares?
By Angel Au-Yeung
In a recent segment of "Pumpcast News" on Jay Leno's Tonight Show, a married couple with a penchant for singing Bon Jovi and Eurythmics tunes became viral sensations with their charismatic renditions of "Like A Prayer" and "Sweet Dreams" in a…
These Are the 2 Unexpected Symbols of Liberation For North Koreans
By Angel Au-Yeung
Despite the technology boom in recent decades that has made governments more transparent and more accountable to its citizens than ever before, the North Korean government manages to keep an iron fist around its people. If anything, digital…
Watch: This Amazing Anti-Child Abuse Ad is Only Visibile to Children
By Angel Au-Yeung
A Spanish nonprofit organization created a clever advertising strategy that both provides a safe way for an abused child to call for help as well as highlight the deceptive nature of families that house child abuse.  The ad, using lenticular…
Jamestown Cannibalism: 3 Most Horrifying Cannibal Incidents in History
By Angel Au-Yeung
Newly found fragments of a 400-year-old skeleton confirm the first permanent English settlers in North America resorted to cannibalism in the winter of 1609–1610, known by academics as the Starving Time. The settlers turning to cannibalism is…
Christina Regusters: Daycare Worker Charged With Kidnapping, Raping 5-Year-Old
By Angel Au-Yeung
A 20-year-old Philadelphian day care worker was indicted this week for kidnapping a 5-year-old girl from her school by posing as her mother, raping her, and leaving her at a playground in the middle of the night barely clothed. Christina Regusters…
UN Torture Expert Denied Visit to Bahrain: What Are They Hiding?
By Angel Au-Yeung
The Bahraini government indefinitely postponed a United Nations torture expert’s mission trip to their country, giving no reasons and proposing no alternative dates. This is the second time Bahrain has blocked a planned visit from U.N. Special…
Sunil Tripathi: Wrongly Accused Boston Bomber's Body May Have Been Found in River
By Angel Au-Yeung
The police found a body pulled from a river that could be missing Brown University student Sunil Tripathi, who fell victim to a Reddit-facilitated witch-hunt and was inaccurately named as a suspect for the Boston bombings last week. His persecution…
Alan Gendreau Gay: NFL Doesn't Care About Kicker's Sexuality, We Shouldn't Either
By Angel Au-Yeung
The LGBT community continues to face marginalization to this day, but they may have finally found true and unbiased acceptance in the unlikeliest of places — the National Football League. If it weren’t for Alan Gendreau’s sexual orientation, his…
A.J. Clemente: North Dakota Anchor Fired After Saying "F*cking Sh*t" During First Broadcast
By Angel Au-Yeung
A rookie news man made his debut this week as an anchor for Bismarck, North Dakota NBC affiliate KFYRTV channel. To say that it did not go as planned would be an understatement. As if things couldn't get worse for A.J. "Fuckin' Shit" Clemente, it…