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Jimmy Lai convicted as Hong Kong’s last major pro-democracy party votes to disband

Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement sustained its most serious legal and political setbacks in years over the weekend. Jimmy Lai, the outspok...

Epstein emails: Larry Summer’s pursuit of the Asian woman he called ‘Peril’

Emails released last month by Republicans on the House Oversight Committee show former Treasury Secretary and Harvard University president L...

Christine Choy, filmmaker behind ‘Who Killed Vincent Chin?,’ dies at 73

Christine Choy, the Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker who helped force a national reckoning with anti-Asian violence, died Dec. 7 in New...

How a side-eye at H Mart set off a TikTok creator pile-on

When TikTok creator Madeline posted a video about side-eyeing white shoppers at H Mart, she described it as a reflection on respect and live...

Finnish lawmakers post slanted-eye gestures after Miss Finland loses title

Finnish lawmakers from the right-wing Finns Party posted images of themselves making slanted-eye gestures after Miss Finland Sarah Dzafce wa...

Do Kwon sentenced to 15 years over Terra collapse

A Manhattan federal judge sentenced Terraform Labs founder Do Kwon to 15 years in prison on Dec. 11 following his guilty plea in the collaps...

International students self-censor amid fear of visa consequences, survey finds

International students in the U.S. are self-censoring, avoiding political activity and limiting their public presence due to fear of surveil...

Ultra-rich 0.001% control triple the wealth of poorest half of humanity: report

Global wealth has reached a level of concentration that researchers describe as extreme, according to the World Inequality Report 2026. The ...

Miss Finland condemned after photo shows alleged racist gesture toward Asians

Reigning Miss Finland Sarah Dzafce faced intense backlash after a photo surfaced online showing her pulling back the corners of her eyes, a ...

Japan scientist develops AI system that turns brain activity into sentences

A scientist in Japan has created a technique that uses fMRI brain scans and artificial intelligence to generate sentences describing what a ...

Husband of China’s first cryogenic patient criticized for new relationship

The husband in China’s first cryogenic preservation case faced criticism in Jinan last month after acknowledging he has a partner while his ...

Astronaut Jonny Kim returns to Earth after 245-day ISS research mission

NASA astronaut Jonny Kim, the first Korean American astronaut to fly to space, returned to Earth Tuesday after completing a 245-day mission ...

Jon M. Chu signs 3-year first-look producing deal with Paramount

Filmmaker Jon M. Chu is preparing to launch a new three-year first-look producing partnership with Paramount Pictures and Paramount Televisi...

Chloe Zhao, ‘K Pop: Demon Hunters’ headline strong Asian showing at Golden Globes

Filmmaker Chloe Zhao and the creative team behind “K Pop: Demon Hunters” lead a wide field of Asian and Asian American talent no...

‘Now the world will know of us’: Joshua Van becomes 1st Asian-born male UFC champ

Joshua Van became the first Asian born male UFC champion after winning the flyweight title at UFC 323 in Las Vegas on Saturday. The fight en...

WestJet agent accused of ripping up boarding passes, striking senior in check-in dispute

A Toronto family says a WestJet agent snatched their phone and ripped up their tickets after they began recording a conversation about being...

BD Wong apologizes for Instagram comment invoking ‘racist trope’

Actor BD Wong apologized on Dec. 3 after posting an Instagram comment under wildlife influencer Mike Holston’s video that compared the anima...

Model discovered at NYC subway station becomes 1st Indian to open Chanel show

Bhavitha Mandava became the first Indian model to open a Chanel runway when she led the house’s Métiers d’Art 2026 show in New York City on ...

Adults aged 45 and older are getting lonelier, survey shows

New research from AARP indicates that loneliness is affecting older Americans at a higher rate than in previous years, with 40% meeting the ...

Korean American ‘Overwatch’ actor files defamation lawsuit against WestJet

WestJet is facing a defamation lawsuit from Korean American actor Charlet Chung over a confrontation she recorded last year aboard a flight ...

Nathan Chen to enter Figure Skating Hall of Fame after record-setting career

Olympic champion Nathan Chen will be inducted into the U.S. Figure Skating Hall of Fame in 2026, honoring a career that produced two Olympic...

Kimchi can boost immune system, new study finds

A new study in South Korea found that eating kimchi powder every day can make key immune cells more alert while helping the body maintain st...

Amazon workers say AI push threatens democracy and the world

More than 1,000 Amazon employees said on Tuesday that the company’s rapid artificial intelligence (AI) rollout is putting jobs, democratic i...

Malaysia to bar children under-16s from social media

Malaysia will introduce a nationwide ban on social media accounts for users under 16 in 2026 and require platforms to block account creation...

Actor Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa dies at 75

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, the Japanese American actor who played Shang Tsung in both the 1995 “Mortal Kombat” film and the 2019 video game “Mort...

India reverses order requiring government tracking app on all smartphones

The Indian government withdrew an order on Wednesday that would have required every smartphone in the country to carry an app that critics s...

Floods across Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Malaysia kill more than 1,400

More than 1,400 people have been killed across Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Malaysia after days of heavy rain triggered severe floodin...

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang orders employees to automate all tasks with AI

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang instructed employees during a companywide meeting in Santa Clara on Nov. 20 that they should automate every task pos...

Most voters say college degree is not worth the cost, new poll finds

A new NBC News national poll finds that 63% of registered voters in the U.S. believe a four-year college degree is not worth its cost, the l...

Hong Kong targets contractors and critics in deadly fire probe

Hong Kong officials say noncompliant plastic netting used on the Wang Fuk Court scaffolding failed fire resistance tests after the blaze kil...

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...

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...

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...