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 films and television.

President Lai Ching-te unveiled Taiwan’s most ambitious military spending program last week, committing $1.25 trillion Taiwan dollars ($40 billion) over eight years to bolster the island’s defenses as Beijing intensifies pressure and cross-strait relations grow increasingly precarious.

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 origami-based engineering project.

Roughly 4,000 Myanmar nationals in the U.S. face deportation to a war-torn homeland after the Trump administration ended their temporary protected status (TPS) last week, claiming improvements in a country still engulfed in civil war and accused of crimes against humanity.

A California police officer is suing his department after allegedly being subjected to racist remarks by a supervisor, pressured to meet arrest quotas and retaliated against for reporting misconduct. Andrew Hwang, a Korean American officer, filed the civil lawsuit against the Glendora Police Department in Los Angeles County, where he has worked since 2023. The City of Glendora and the department have not publicly responded to his complaint.

A former Ottawa resident who admitted to terrorizing his Asian neighbors with racially motivated harassment and vandalism has narrowly avoided jail time. An Ontario court in Ottawa sentenced 37-year-old Mathew Galipeau on Tuesday to an 18-month conditional term, beginning with four months of house arrest, for the hateful acts committed in the Barrhaven suburb. The judgment concludes a high-profile case that shined a harsh light on anti-Asian sentiment and the application of hate crime legislation.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has reportedly instructed his troops fighting alongside Russian forces in Ukraine to kill themselves with grenades if they face capture. The directive was delivered through twice-weekly political sessions that highlight cases of soldiers who detonated explosives as Ukrainian units approached, according to the Seoul-based Daily NK. Ukrainian Special Operations Forces recently reported one such incident in Russia’s Kursk region where a North Korean soldier blew himself up during a confrontation.

Yue-Sai Kan introduced the world to China when the country was still largely closed off. Now, she worries that understanding is slipping away. In her new memoir, “The Most Famous Woman in China,” Kan revisits the years when she helped shape the country’s global image and offers a firsthand account of a nation on the cusp of irreversible change.

Eve Stephens, the first Asian American woman to lead any University of Texas (UT) System police department, has filed a federal lawsuit against the University of Texas at Austin and the UT System, alleging she was fired due to sex and national origin discrimination.

Rep. Young Kim (R-Calif.) recently condemned socialism with a personal take, echoing President Donald Trump’s “communist” branding of NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani as she gears up for next year’s primary in a new district.