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Crime
‘Chinese Zodiac Killer’ who claimed to eat his victims sentenced to 16 months in prison
The LaFargeville, New York, man who identified himself as the “Chinese Zodiac Killer” in dozens of threatening letters sent to multiple stat...
Carl Samson
Houston woman says a family trespassed into her home, locked her out and squatted for weeks
Trespassers who claimed to have paid $6,000 to rent a home in Houston, Texas, have been evicted after their lease was proven to be fake by p...
Michelle De Pacina
Yoo Ah-in issues first public apology amid ongoing drug scandal
South Korean actor Yoo Ah-in issued an apology on social media a day after he was questioned by the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency over al...
Ana Yoo
Swedish man sentenced for running porn network that preyed on over 4,000 Thai women, children
A 23-year-old Swedish man who ran a criminal network selling pornographic images and films of over 4,000 young girls and women in Thailand h...
Japanese man who licked soy sauce bottle indicted in landmark case against ‘sushi terrorism’
A man has been indicted for tampering with a restaurant’s conveyor belt sushi in Japan, marking the first known case against a participant i...
Teen accused of paralyzing woman in Houston robbery confesses in jailhouse phone calls
Joseph Harrell, the 17-year-old teen who was arrested in connection to a violent robbery that left a Vietnamese mother paralyzed last month,...
China
Chinese influencer claims Dilraba Dilmurat fans attacked him for AI kissing video
A Chinese influencer claimed several angry fans of actor Dilraba Dilmurat stormed his office and attacked him for an edited video he posted ...
Bryan Ke
Chicago
Asian senior killed in Chicago Chinatown crash, leaves behind paralyzed wife
A 78-year-old Asian man has died after being hit by a van in Chicago’s Chinatown more than a week ago. Guo Ning Li, a Chinese immigrant, was...
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...
S. Korean cult featured in docuseries ‘In the Name of God’ sues Netflix for $231,000
The religious group Baby Garden has filed a 300 million won (approximately $231,000) lawsuit against Netflix for damages allegedly caused by...
N. Korean women and girls sold as sex slaves at Chinese border: report
North Korean women and girls who have fled to China in search of freedom and safety have found horror instead, according to a new report fro...
Ryan General
Oakland Chinatown businesses demand more police presence after string of burglaries
Business owners in Oakland Chinatown, California, are calling for more police presence after a string of what they believe to have been targ...
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...
S. Korean prosecutors seek Do Kwon’s extradition after Montenegro airport arrest
South Korean prosecutors are working with Montenegro authorities to extradite Do Kwon to South Korea, but the United States is also chasing ...
‘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...
Fan assaulted by 2 women at JJ Lin’s Hong Kong concert after telling them to get down from table
A JJ Lin fan was assaulted by two women during the Singaporean singer’s concert in Hong Kong last week after she called them out for o...
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...
29-year-old scientist who posed as teen to attend high school sought ‘place of safety,’ says lawyer
The 29-year-old woman charged with presenting a false birth certificate in January to pose as a high school student has pleaded not guilty t...
Ines Shin
Man murders wife before killing himself in latest Hmong domestic violence tragedy in Minnesota
In the latest domestic violence tragedy involving the Hmong community in Minnesota, a man murdered his wife before committing suicide in an ...
‘Mocked like animals’: Teens in England filmed spewing racial slurs at Nepalese British sisters
Police in England are searching for a teenager who was captured bullying and spewing racial slurs at two Nepalese British sisters in a video...
Canada
Brutal group attack on Sikh student in Canada denounced as ‘absolutely horrendous’
A Canadian city councilor has spoken up after a Sikh international student was brutally beaten by a group of people on his way home in what ...
Teen accused of violent robbery that left Houston woman paralyzed is arrested
A 17-year-old along with his 19-year-old accomplice have been arrested in connection to a violent robbery that left a Vietnamese mother para...
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...
Thai woman accused of fatal hit-and-run of Michigan student receives $1 million bond
The Thai woman who fled to Bangkok after allegedly hitting a Michigan State University student with her car and leaving him for dead has rec...
‘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 ...
Mother of woman who made up story about Asian grooming gang is accused of not returning donation money
Allison Johnston, a now-suspended Labor Party member on Barrow Borough Council, has yet to return the money donated to her daughter Eleanor ...
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...
Mỹ Lai massacre: 55 years since one of the US Army’s worst atrocities of the 20th century
On March 16, 1968, more than 500 unarmed civilians were brutally killed in a mass murder committed by U.S. troops in South Vietnam during th...
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...
Australia
Sydney man accused of drugging, filming his sexual assaults of Korean women
A man described as a “prominent member” of Sydney’s Indian community is currently on trial for 13 counts of rape, among multiple other sex c...
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...
3 men falsely accused of sexual assault by Eleanor Williams testify they attempted suicide
Four men who were falsely accused of rape by Eleanor Williams have spoken out about the severe impact her lies had on their lives, including...
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...
Biden announces gun control executive order in visit to Monterey Park 2 months after mass shooting
President Joe Biden has announced new measures that would strengthen background checks on gun purchases in the country following a recent se...
California ‘Teacher of the Year’ faces 15 charges for ‘inappropriate relationship’ with 13-year-old student
An elementary school teacher in National City, California, was arrested and charged for an “inappropriate relationship” with her 13-year-old...