An X post about an Indian Meta engineer allegedly receiving a layoff email while in Bengaluru triggered a wave of reactions about H-1B workers and immigration in the U.S. tech industry.

Internet personality Trisha Paytas drew backlash this week after critics resurfaced a 2017 tweet containing anti-Asian slurs days after she released a Korean-language pop single styled after mainstream K-pop videos.

A marketing campaign by Starbucks Korea has ignited public anger in South Korea after promotional slogans referencing “Tank Day” appeared on the anniversary of the 1980 Gwangju uprising, one of the country’s defining pro-democracy movements. The campaign quickly drew accusations that the company had invoked painful memories tied to South Korea’s authoritarian era.

Anti-Asian racism during the COVID-19 pandemic was fueled more by anger than fear of infection, according to new research from Murdoch University in Australia. The study found that people who viewed Asians as responsible for the spread of the virus were more likely to support hostile or aggressive behavior toward them. Researchers said the findings help explain why discrimination during the pandemic frequently escalated beyond avoidance into harassment and violence.

A TikTok video describing venues in South Korea that allegedly barred Filipinos and other Southeast Asians from entering has ignited renewed debate over discrimination in the country’s nightlife scene. Posted March 14 by creator @callmebelly, the clip has amassed more than 770,000 views and spread widely across social media, where users shared similar accounts involving nationality-based entry restrictions.

U.S. President Donald Trump gushed over Chinese President Xi Jinping during a Fox News interview aired during his Beijing trip last week, where Xi welcomed him with a red-carpet arrival, military pageantry and a visit to the Temple of Heaven. “He’s tall. Very tall,” Trump told Sean Hannity, adding that people in China “tend to be a little bit shorter.” The remarks carried Beijing’s summit imagery into American television after two days of tightly choreographed appearances alongside the Chinese leader.

A Washington state man accused of throwing a rock at an endangered Hawaiian monk seal on Maui never meant to harm the animal and thought he was shielding nearby sea turtles, his attorney said.

The Bronx man accused of running a secret Chinese police station in Manhattan’s Chinatown has been convicted of illegally serving as an agent of Beijing in federal court.

Asian American freshman representation has risen at the nation’s most selective colleges in the first admissions cycle following the Supreme Court’s ban on race-conscious admissions, but the gains are far from uniform across individual elite institutions, according to a new analysis of federal data.

The Justice Department has accused Yale’s medical school of illegally considering race in its admissions decisions, the second medical school finding the agency has issued in eight days.