Lucy Liu says Hollywood racism stalled her career for decades

Lucy Liu says long-standing racial bias in Hollywood created what she describes as a “strange lull” in her career after her early success in...

Taiwan’s 2027 defense push reflects deepening U.S.-China-Japan strategic competition

President Lai Ching-te unveiled Taiwan’s most ambitious military spending program last week, committing $1.25 trillion Taiwan dollars ($40 b...

Trump orders migration freeze from ‘Third World Countries’

President Donald Trump pledged to “permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries” following a deadly shooting in Washington, D....

NYC teen turns origami into award-winning disaster relief innovation

Fourteen-year-old Miles Wu of New York City won the $25,000 top prize at the Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge for his or...

Myanmar refugees face return to civil war after Trump admin ends protection

Roughly 4,000 Myanmar nationals in the U.S. face deportation to a war-torn homeland after the Trump administration ended their temporary pro...

California officer’s lawsuit accuses colleagues of racially harassing him

A California police officer is suing his department after allegedly being subjected to racist remarks by a supervisor, pressured to meet arr...

Ottawa man sentenced for hate-motivated harassment of his Asian neighbors

A former Ottawa resident who admitted to terrorizing his Asian neighbors with racially motivated harassment and vandalism has narrowly avoid...

North Korean troops in Ukraine ordered to die before capture

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has reportedly instructed his troops fighting alongside Russian forces in Ukraine to kill themselves with gr...

Yue-Sai Kan: The woman who helped give color to a colorless nation

Yue-Sai Kan introduced the world to China when the country was still largely closed off. Now, she worries that understanding is slipping awa...

UT Austin’s first woman, Asian American police chief files discrimination suit

Eve Stephens, the first Asian American woman to lead any University of Texas (UT) System police department, has filed a federal lawsuit agai...

Rep. Young Kim condemns socialism as she prepares for GOP primary

Rep. Young Kim (R-Calif.) recently condemned socialism with a personal take, echoing President Donald Trump’s “communist” branding of NYC Ma...

SF man faces life in prison for fatal beating of Asian American grandmother

A 25-year-old man convicted of killing an elderly woman as part of an anti-Asian crime spree in 2019 will likely receive a life sentence wit...

Trump request puts ‘Rush Hour 4’into development at Paramount

“Rush Hour 4” is now in active development at Paramount Pictures after Donald Trump personally urged the studio to move forward with the lon...

Google’s CEO can afford to lose his job to AI. We can’t.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai was smiling in a BBC interview aired last Tuesday when he suggested that “what a CEO does is maybe one of the easie...

‘Godfather of AI’ warns of AI’s dangers

Computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton, widely known as one of the “godfathers” of artificial intelligence (AI), urged policymakers ...

Navy vet’s daughter released after 8 months in ICE detention

Alma Bowman, a Filipino American activist, regained her freedom this week after Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) held her for eight...

She is Alabama’s first Asian American mayor

Ranae Bartlett, 58, is Alabama’s first Asian American mayor, winning more than 56% of the vote in the City of Madison’s mayoral race in Augu...

Social media giants knew platforms were ‘addictive drug’ for teens, court filings reveal

Internal communications from Meta Platforms Inc., TikTok, Snap Inc. and YouTube, revealed in a 5,807-page federal court filing unsealed this...

Stanford sees Asian enrollment spike after affirmative action ruling

The Supreme Court’s June 2023 decision ending race-conscious admissions has reshaped Stanford University’s incoming class, with Asian and wh...

Eating alone linked to higher frailty risks among older adults, global review finds

When did you last share a meal with your grandparents? A new review of international studies published in 2025 finds that older adults who r...

Anti-Asian hate crimes remain nearly triple pre-pandemic levels

Anti-Asian hate crimes in the U.S. reached 379 incidents in 2024, according to a new analysis of FBI data released on Thursday by Asian Amer...

How this viral walking trend from Japan actually changes key fitness markers

A walking technique developed in Japan is gaining attention on social media as users attempt a routine built on fixed three-minute intervals...

Bollywood icon Dharmendra dies at 89

Indian cinema lost one of its most influential figures on Monday, when Dharmendra died at his home in Mumbai at age 89. He had recently been...

Asian immigrants face growing fears under Trump, new poll shows

Fears of detention or deportation have surged by 15 percentage points among Asian immigrants, according to a survey of 1,805 immigrants cond...

DOGE quietly disbands after delivering fraction of promised savings

President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has disbanded with eight months remaining on its mandate, ending a high-...

Simu Liu calls out renewed decline of Asian representation in Hollywood

Simu Liu is urging the film industry to confront what he calls a troubling reversal in Asian visibility on screen. In a widely shared social...

Forget the turkey: Asian American families reinvent the Thanksgiving table

Roast duck has become a stand-in for turkey in many Asian American households, and pancit or kimchi often fills the space usually held by ma...

Ohtani bat fetches $300,000 at auction

A Shohei Ohtani bat photo matched to five home runs during his 2024 season led SCP Auctions’ 2025 Fall Premier sale in Laguna Niguel, Califo...

Prominent MAGA influencers on X exposed as foreign actors

A new transparency feature on X has revealed that numerous prominent MAGA influencers are actually foreign actors, with many accounts traced...

Met Museum returns 18th Century Buddhist painting to South Korea

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has returned a Buddhist painting from 1798 to a South Korean temple, acknowledging the work was believed take...

Immigrants sue DHS, ICE over ‘inhumane’ conditions at California detention center

Seven immigrants detained at California’s largest ICE facility filed a federal class-action lawsuit last week against the Department of Home...

Kash Patel under fire for providing girlfriend FBI detail

FBI Director Kash Patel faces another round of backlash following reports that his girlfriend receives an elite FBI security detail despite ...

Japan eyes tripling departure tax to combat overtourism

Japan is weighing a plan to triple its departure tax from 1,000 yen ($6.40) to 3,000 yen ($19.20) per person as record visitor numbers fuel ...

Chinese mother’s tearful plea in Texas court sheds light on border desperation

A Chinese woman arrested last week after crossing the Rio Grande wept in federal court as she explained her desperate journey to support her...

It’s time to teach our parents how to spot AI fakes

As artificial intelligence (AI) tools develop at an unprecedented rate, it is becoming more and more difficult for people to tell digital fa...

Korean masterworks make US debut at Smithsonian

More than 200 rare works from Korea’s most significant private art donation opened to the public on Saturday at the National Museum of Asian...