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· Carl Samson
‘NO G**KS’: San Leandro man arrested for vandalizing neighbor’s home with anti-Asian graffiti
Nicholas Swyers, 25, was arrested on Monday for allegedly spray-painting a home in San Leandro, California, with anti-Asian graffiti. The property, which is being sold, first experienced vandalism on Saturday night with a “NO G**KS” message painted on its for-sale sign. The same…
· Carl Samson
SF Mayor London Breed proposes $500,000 budget for Asian victims with limited English proficiency
San Francisco Mayor London Breed has proposed a $500,000 budget to expand services for Asian crime victims, particularly those with limited English proficiency. Nearly half of the budget ($240,000) will be used to fund trauma recovery clinical services in Cantonese for victims…
· Carl Samson
Florida woman charged with hate crimes, held on $20,000 bail for anti-Asian pepper spray attack
Madeline Barker, 47, has been charged with hate crimes in connection to a pepper spray attack against four Asian women in New York City’s Meatpacking District on June 11. Part of the incident was caught in a now-viral video, which shows a woman in pink threatening people around…
· Khier Casino
Not just for ‘rich, white, jacked gay men’: Stars of ‘Fire Island’ on body positivity for Asians and LGBTQ
Fire Island is a place where “rich, white, jacked gay men” travel to for vacation, but the cast of the new Hulu film of the same name say there is more to it than that. “Fire Island” is a romantic comedy that follows a group of gay men who spend a week-long trip at the queer…
· Ryan General
New research reveals Central Asia, rather than China, as origin of the Black Death
An international team of researchers pinpointed the start of the Black Death to the unusual surge of deaths in Kyrgyzstan in Central Asia in the late 1330s. The bubonic plague, considered the most fatal pandemic known to humankind, caused the death of around a third of Europe’s…
· Celine Pun
Honoring my scallions: How my Asian parents’ food waste made me an environmentalist
Growing up as a low-income, first-generation Asian American, I was motivated by my immigrant parents’ food insecurity to fight for our planet. I was born into an American culture of honoring consumption. I was never shy, taking extra servings of catering food home from school…
· Bryan Ke
American food YouTuber goes to Singapore’s Chinatown Complex to try ‘exotic Asian meats’
American YouTuber Sonny Side, whose real name is Will Sonbuchner, recently went to Singapore’s Chinatown Complex to try local hawker dishes, including pig’s trotter and fallopian tubes. The 38-year-old food vlogger uploaded a video on June 11 titled “Exotic Asian Meats!!…
· Ryan General
Man who pepper-sprayed group of Asian men for speaking Cantonese in Brooklyn arrested
On Nov. 2, 2021, Isaiah Jordan started mocking three middle-aged Asian men outside a restaurant in Brooklyn, New York, before punching one of them in the face and then pulling out a knife and a pepper spray canister. Surveillance video released by the New York City Police…
· Carl Samson
Johnston & Murphy stirs Instagram firestorm over anti-Asian DMs, ‘#ChingChong’ in bio
Footwear brand Johnston & Murphy is in hot water after several Instagram users exposed racist, anti-Asian comments and messages they received from its verified account this week. The firestorm appears to have started after Pughaus founder Jason Wong received comments from the…
· Maina Chen
NYPD looking for woman seen in video pepper-spraying four Asian women in broad daylight
The New York City Police Department is searching for a woman who pepper-sprayed four Asian women in the Meatpacking District on Saturday. The Asian women, who chose to remain anonymous, told NextShark that the attacker hurled racial insults and then charged at them with the…
· Rebecca Moon
Redditor alleges her 6 y/o was forced to eat alone for ‘distracting’ peers with ‘smelly’ Asian food
A Reddit user posted to the subreddit r/AmItheAssh*le on Monday, where she alleged that her daughter was ostracized by her homeroom teacher during lunch for her “foreign” food. The homeroom teacher purportedly forced the Reddit user’s 6-year-old daughter to sit alone in a room…
· Editorial Staff
Woman filmed spewing racist slurs at Orlando restaurant’s Asian staff after refund disagreement
Seafood restaurant King Cajun Crawfish took to social media to expose a woman who hurled racist abuse at its Asian staff on Monday afternoon. The woman’s tirade allegedly started after she finished her meal and demanded a refund, claiming the shrimp were spoiled. In a cell phone…
· Bryan Ke
Right-hand man of ‘Asia’s El Chapo,’ 6th on Australia’s most wanted list, extradited from Thailand
Chung Chak Lee, 66, known as the right-hand man of “Asia’s El Chapo,” was extradited to Melbourne, Australia, from Thailand on Saturday. “The extradition of someone we allege to be high on the pecking order of this serious criminal syndicate is a significant milestone for the…
· Rebecca Moon
‘Lightyear’ producer vows no cuts amid film’s ban in several Asian countries over same-sex kiss
Disney Pixar’s film “Lightyear” has been banned in 14 Middle Eastern and Asian countries due to the depiction of a same-sex couple who share a kiss. Children under the age of 16 will be unable to watch the film in Singapore where Infocomm Media Development Authority gave the…
· Ryan General
Biden signs national Asian Pacific American museum commission bill
President Joe Biden officially signed the “Commission To Study the Potential Creation of a National Museum of Asian Pacific American History and Culture Act” into law on Monday. “It's about time for a national museum to capture the courage, the character, the imagination and…
· Michelle De Pacina
Filipino family attacked at North Hollywood fast food drive-thru by man who called them ‘so Asian’
A Filipino family was threatened and physically attacked at a fast food drive-thru in North Hollywood, California, on May 13. Nerissa Roque and her daughter, Patricia, were pulling up to a drive-thru when a Jeep allegedly bumped the back of their car. The driver, who told them…
· Grace Kim
Michelle Yeoh to lead all-Asian cast in new Netflix drama series ‘The Brothers Sun’
Netflix announced the cast for the upcoming series “The Brothers Sun” on Monday. Michelle Yeoh has been set to lead as Mama Sun, along with Justin Chien as Charles Sun, Sam Song Li as Bruce Sun, Highdee Kuan as Alexis and Joon Lee as TK. The eight-episode series is described as…
· Ryan General
‘Asia’s first’ exorcism center being built in the Philippines by Archdiocese of Manila
The Archdiocese of Manila is building an exorcism center in the Philippines, calling it “first of its kind in Asia, if not the world.” Upon completion, the Saint Michael Center for Spiritual Liberation and Exorcism will serve as the official headquarters of the Philippine…
· Rebecca Moon
TikTok video of 2 Asian shoppers picking green pieces off of lettuce at grocery draws criticism
A TikToker user shared a video on June 4 of two Asian women pulling the outer green leaves off of several heads of iceberg lettuce in the produce section of Coles. While one woman pulls off the leaves, the other woman places them into bags. Some internet users defended the…
· Michelle De Pacina
Authorities search for hit-and-run driver that killed an Asian grandmother in Oceanside, California
Cecilia Shu, a 68-year-old grandmother, was walking on a sidewalk in Oceanside, California, when a black Honda SUV drove onto the sidewalk and struck her on June 5. The driver then made a U-turn and drove away. Paramedics pronounced Shu dead at the scene. Authorities are still…
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Kikkoman
Kikkoman is how Japanese flavor went global — the soy sauce that became a default condiment on Western tables and made 'umami' a kitchen word.
Company · Singapore · NASDAQ:GRAB
Grab
Grab is the everyday super-app of Southeast Asia — rides, food, and payments in one wallet across eight countries, the way hundreds of millions actually move and eat.
Company · Singapore · NYSE:SE
Sea Ltd
Sea is Southeast Asia's culture-and-commerce giant — Garena's Free Fire defined mobile gaming for the region while Shopee reshaped how it shops.
Company · Japan · TYO:4911
Shiseido
Shiseido is the standard-bearer of J-beauty — a 150-year-old house whose skincare rituals and prestige brands shape beauty across Asia and beyond.
Company · China · HKEX:0700
Tencent
Tencent ties gaming, messaging, streaming, and social habits to one of Asia's biggest internet companies.
Company · China · NASDAQ:TCOM
Trip.com Group
Trip.com Group is Asia's largest online travel agency — the booking layer behind the region's outbound tourism boom, from Ctrip in China to Skyscanner worldwide.
Alibaba · Platforms · NYSE:BABA
The Grammys created an award for Asian pop. BTS said no.
Alibaba is China's commerce-and-entertainment backbone — Taobao and Tmall shopping habits fund Youku streaming and Alibaba Pictures, tying online spending to what China watches.
Jollibee Foods Corporation · Food · PSE:JFC
Jollibee is turning nostalgia into stores.
This shows up when a meal that feels like home is no longer just your hometown stop but the same Jollibee run you can repeat in more places across Southeast Asia.
Explainer · Jollibee Foods Corporation
If Jollibee feels like home, that feeling is spreading across Southeast Asia.
This shows up when a meal that feels like home is no longer just your hometown stop but the same Jollibee run you can repeat in more places across Southeast Asia.