Chinese actress Xin Zhilei won the Volpi Cup for best actress at the 82nd Venice Film Festival in Italy on Sept. 6, for her performance in Cai Shangjun’s drama “The Sun Rises on Us All.” The honor made her the third Chinese actress in the festival’s history to receive the award, following Gong Li in 1992 and Deanie Ip in 2011.

Tennis star Naomi Osaka reached her first Grand Slam semifinal since 2021 at the U.S. Open in New York on Sept. 5, and though she lost to Amanda Anisimova, she called the run a fulfillment of her dreams.

Haru Urara, the Japanese racehorse who became a national symbol of endurance after finishing winless in all 113 of her races, died on Sept. 9 at age 29 at a farm in Chiba Prefecture. She completed her only recorded victory in a 2019 time trial event held years after her retirement.

Kim Jong Un’s daughter, widely identified as Kim Ju Ae, made her first public appearance abroad on Sept. 3, when she joined him at a military parade in Beijing commemorating the 80th anniversary of Japan’s World War II surrender. Believed to be 12 or 13 years old, she stood directly behind her father and ahead of senior North Korean officials, prompting speculation she is being positioned as the potential heir to the position of supreme leader.

Liu Jun, one of the world’s leading statisticians and a Harvard University professor since 2000, has left the U.S. to join Tsinghua University in Beijing. His appointment as Xinghua Distinguished Chair Professor on Aug. 30, underscores a growing brain drain from American institutions, as other countries ramp up efforts to recruit top researchers.

The Trump administration’s new $250 “visa integrity fee,” set to take effect Oct. 1, threatens to further reduce international travel to the country, particularly impacting visitors from Asia and Latin America as overseas arrivals continue their fifth consecutive month of decline.

Two years after the Supreme Court banned race-conscious college admissions, Asian American students face a complex landscape of shifting enrollment patterns. Yale University’s Class of 2029, for instance, shows a 6% increase in Asian American enrollment to 30%.

Community leaders and family members are demanding stronger crime prevention measures after an 88-year-old jewelry store owner was assaulted and hospitalized in a coordinated robbery in San Jose, California, last week.

A University of Hawaii oral history initiative is spotlighting how Korean prisoners of war vastly outnumbered Japanese Americans at the Honouliuli Internment Camp during World War II — about 2,700 Koreans compared to 400 Japanese Americans.

Ken Mar, a World War II veteran, turned 100 on Thursday, celebrating with members of the Gung Ho American Legion in Sacramento. The event recognized his service as one of roughly 20,000 Chinese Americans who fought in the war.