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Entertainment
‘Such a slap in the face’: IVE fans lose it after main vocal gets less time in new song
Fans of K-pop girl group IVE are venting on social media over what some have described as an “unfair” line distribution in the sextet’s late...
Carl Samson
Crime
NYC woman jailed for anti-Asian attack now arrested for same-day murder, arson
A woman who shoved and hurled racial slurs at an Asian man on a New York City subway in 2021 has been arrested once again on Friday, this ti...
‘Star Trek’ producer teases Michelle Yeoh’s ‘Section 31’ spinoff
A “Star Trek” producer has provided an update on Michelle Yeoh’s long-anticipated franchise spinoff, “Section 31.” The series, which continu...
Ghibli Park guests apologize for taking lewd photos with characters
Three men who admitted to posting obscene photos taken with display characters in Japan’s Ghibli Park reportedly apologized to local officia...
‘John Wick: Chapter 4’ tops box office with franchise-best $73.5 million debut
“John Wick: Chapter 4” crushed its competition to lead the weekend box office with a record opening. In just three days, the Keanu Reeves-le...
Canada
‘What are you?’: Vancouver’s ‘serial racist’ filmed in another anti-Chinese rant
A man now dubbed as Vancouver’s “serial racist” has been caught in yet another anti-Chinese rant, this time at a new dessert shop in the Can...
China
Chinese official ‘corrects’ foreign reporter: ‘no such thing as Taiwanese president’
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin denied the existence of a Taiwanese president on Thursday, reiterating Beijing’s position ...
TikTok CEO dodges questions on Uyghur persecution during House hearing
TikTok CEO Shou Chew did not directly answer questions about China’s Uyghur persecution and possible Taiwanese invasion at a House committee...
‘Chinese Zodiac Killer’ who claimed to eat his victims hit with new weapons charges
A New York man accused of mailing threatening letters in which he claimed to murder and eat his victims has been charged with weapons counts...
Education
Michigan university accused of racism for holding ‘segregated’ graduation events
Grand Valley State University (GVSU), a public university in Allendale, Michigan, is being accused of racism for organizing complementary gr...
‘EEAAO’ producer Jonathan Wang returns rented Tesla late, invites owner to see his Oscar
“Everything Everywhere All at Once” producer Jonathan Wang met the owner of the Tesla he had rented to get to the Oscars last week after the...
Health
East Asians more likely to have stomach cancer due to lower alcohol tolerance, study finds
East Asians are more likely to develop a rare type of stomach cancer due to a genetic predisposition to lower alcohol tolerance, a new study...
Teen filmed beating Asian security guard in San Francisco mall brawl
A video showing a teenager shoving and beating an Asian security guard in San Francisco’s Stonestown Galleria has gone viral on Twitter. The...
Vanessa Hudgens to honor Filipino heritage in new travel documentary
Vanessa Hudgens is slated to shoot a travel documentary in the Philippines, the home of her mother, Gina Hudgens. The untitled project, whic...
Art
Mindy Kaling, Vera Wang, Amy Tan and Joan Shigekawa receive National Arts, Humanities Medals
Four Asian American creatives will be awarded with national medals for the arts or humanities at the White House this afternoon. Actor and ...
‘The White Lotus’ star Will Sharpe to direct ‘Crying in H Mart’ movie adaptation
Will Sharpe is set to direct the highly anticipated feature film adaptation of “Crying in H Mart,” the best-selling memoir of Japanese Break...
Asian families warned of targeted burglaries in Maine
Police in Portland, Maine, issued a warning Friday about a group of men involved in a series of burglaries that have targeted Asian families...
‘She panicked’: Woman arraigned after extradition from Thailand for Michigan hit-and-run
Tubtim “Sue” Howson, the 57-year-old woman who fled to Thailand after allegedly killing a university student in a Michigan hit-and-run, has ...
2 men wanted, 1 woman arrested in Houston double murder case
Houston police are looking for two men allegedly involved in a pair of murders in the Heights area earlier this year. Polie Phan, 26, and Ja...
Social Media
‘BBC Dad’ shares update photos to mark 6 years since kids crashed live interview
An academic who went viral after his kids crashed his live BBC News interview six years ago has shared new photos of his family. Robert E. K...
Culture
Mom says teacher called her son’s kimchi lunch ‘distracting,’ ‘inappropriate’ in viral Reddit thread
A preschool teacher purportedly banned a student from eating a lunch that included kimchi because it was “distracting” for his classmates an...
Atlanta spa shooter’s death penalty hearings delayed to May
As the nation commemorates the second anniversary of the deadly Atlanta-area spa mass shootings, gunman Robert Aaron Long still faces the de...
Business
NYC Koreatown restaurant shut down after couple reports they found dead rat in soup
A restaurant in Manhattan’s Koreatown was shut down Wednesday following an inspection triggered by a customer’s report of a dead rat in soup...
Biden admin threatens nationwide TikTok ban unless Chinese owners sell their shares
The Biden administration has threatened to implement a nationwide ban on TikTok if its Chinese owners do not sell their stakes in the compan...
Georgia US senators commemorate 2-year anniversary of Atlanta spa shootings
On Wednesday, Georgia U.S. Sens. Rev. Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff commemorated the second anniversary of the deadly Atlanta-area spa shoo...
Exiled Chinese billionaire with ties to Steve Bannon charged in $1 billion fraud scheme
Billionaire businessman Guo Wengui, a political dissident exiled from China, has been arrested and charged in connection with a conspiracy t...
Man with ‘animosity toward South Asians’ found guilty of fatally stabbing cab driver in Canada
A man accused of killing a South Asian cab driver was convicted of second-degree murder by a Canadian court Tuesday. Okoth Obeing, 23, fatal...
Food
Chef Ming Tsai apologizes for controversial ‘roofie,’ #MeToo comments
Celebrity chef Ming Tsai has apologized after taking heat over controversial remarks he made during an onstage interview with a local news o...
Issues & Racism
Woman videoed spewing anti-Asian, anti-lesbian rant at Miami Starbucks
A woman was kicked out of a Starbucks in Miami after going on an anti-Asian and anti-lesbian rant against other customers. The incident, whi...
2 arrested and charged for burglarizing Chinese restaurant in South Carolina
Two men have been arrested and charged in connection with a burglary that left a Chinese restaurant in South Carolina ransacked over the wee...
Japanese woman groped in viral Holi video breaks silence: ‘I love everything about India’
A Japanese woman at the center of a disturbing video that shows her being nonconsensually groped by a group of males in New Delhi, India, ha...
Boy, 13, accused of stabbing sister multiple times in Queens home for ‘bothering’ him
A 13-year-old boy in Queens, New York City, has been charged with felony assault after allegedly stabbing his 14-year-old sister multiple ti...
Twitter goes wild as Michelle Yeoh appears to slam controversial Don Lemon comment in Oscars speech
Michelle Yeoh delivered a powerful message for women in her Oscars acceptance speech, with many viewers convinced that she took a swipe at C...
‘Call me daddy’: OnlyFans creator Titus Low reveals baby girl
Singaporean OnlyFans creator Titus Low and his Malaysian influencer wife Cheryl Chin welcomed their baby girl this week. In a TikTok post Th...
Chinese man accused of murdering Nigerian ex-girlfriend says he ‘didn’t mean’ to kill her
Geng Quanrong, the Chinese national accused of slaying his Nigerian ex-girlfriend, has accused the latter of injuring his genitals and denie...
New video shows mob of masked teens in elevator after trashing Queens Chinese restaurant
New York police have released a new surveillance video of the mob of masked individuals who ransacked a Chinese restaurant in Queens on Marc...
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