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· Carl Samson
25-year-old college dropout is now the world’s youngest self-made billionaire
Alexandr Wang, 25, co-founder of Scale, is now the world’s youngest self-made billionaire. Based in San Francisco, Scale aims to help companies generate high-quality data for artificial intelligence applications. Wang co-founded the startup in 2016 as an MIT freshman during…
· Khier Casino
Hmong American journalist Chenue Her honors immigrant parents for putting him, 4 siblings through college
Chenue Her is celebrating AAPI Heritage Month by dedicating his and his four siblings’ accomplishments to their Hmong parents. The first Hmong male newscaster in the U.S. honored his mom Yia and his dad Seng in a Twitter thread following his younger sister’s graduation from the…
· Jane Nam
California poll: Most believe UC, CSU colleges unaffordable; 4-year degree not the only way to succeed
A California Community poll surveyed 1,220 California adults “across all racial groups, political ideologies, age, gender, income levels and geographical regions” from April 7-18. The survey results showed that 60% of California residents perceive the University of California…
· Jane Nam
Sen. Ted Cruz, over 80 GOP legislators call on SCOTUS to end discrimination toward Asian American college applicants
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) published a press release on Monday, detailing a brief that he and 84 legislators filed to the Supreme Court, calling an end to discrimination against Asian American college applicants. Cruz spearheaded the brief with Korean American Congresswoman Michelle…
· Bryan Ke
College student buys Yoshitomo Nara ashtray at thrift store for $10, flips it for $2,860 on eBay
Terrelle Brown, a 22-year-old student at Wheaton College in Illinois, bought a Yoshitomo Nara ashtray at a Goodwill store for $10 and received a 30,000 percent profit after selling it on eBay. “I was shaking with excitement because I knew the potential of it,” Brown said. “I…
· Bryan Ke
Vietnamese TikToker says she was ‘disowned’ for refusing to fund sister’s ‘lavish’ college lifestyle
A Vietnamese TikTok user has gone viral for talking about how her parents "disowned" her after she refused to pay for her sister's “lavish lifestyle” in the United States. “I just got disowned by my parents just now because I refused to fund my sister’s lavish lifestyle when…
· Ryan General
Missing San Francisco college student found dead inside rental car after going on ‘erratic’ road trip
Chris Liang, a 21-year-old University of San Francisco student, was found dead by the California Highway Patrol inside a rented Tesla in a ditch near Los Banos on Saturday and officially identified on Sunday. Chris was reported missing earlier this month after failing to show up…
· Michelle De Pacina
City College of San Francisco to hold vigil, confer honorary degree to gun violence victim David Nguyen
The City College of San Francisco is hosting a candlelight vigil tonight for David Nguyen, who was fatally shot a month before graduation while driving along Interstate 580 in Oakland, California. Nguyen was an Administration of Justice student, an eight-year veteran in the…
· Ryan General
Racist posts targeting South Asian students emerge on Boston College’s anonymous social media app
South Asian students at Boston College were targeted with hateful posts on Herrd, an app available exclusively for Boston College students. Directed at specific students and South Asians in general, the posts insulted South Asians’ physical features and compared the group to…
· Carl Samson
‘All Asians need to die’ text revealed over a year after it was sent leads to Occidental College backlash
An Occidental College student reportedly sent her friend an anti-Asian text message in late 2020. The recipient said she initially declined to report the text to give the sender a chance to do better, but the student allegedly continued to make discriminatory remarks. Following…
· Bryan Ke
Emerson College targeted by ad campaign for suspending student group behind ‘China Kinda Sus’ stickers
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), a nonprofit civil liberties group, has launched an ad campaign targeting Emerson College for suspending the school’s Turning Point USA (TPUSA) chapter in late 2021. TPUSA caused controversy in October last year for…
· Ryan General
Indonesian college student becomes millionaire after putting his selfies up for sale as NFTs as a joke
Indonesian college student Sultan Gustaf Al Ghozali, 22, earned over $1 million by selling his selfies as NFTs. Ghozali took daily photos of himself in front of his computer over the last five years for a timelapse video he was planning for his graduation. He uploaded these…
· Carl Samson
Trustees unanimously vote to save Cantonese program at City College of San Francisco
City College of San Francisco’s Cantonese program was nearly canceled in Fall 2021 as a result of budget cuts. Trustee Alan Wong, with support of over 20 Asian organizations, spearheaded a proposal to save the program. The proposal, which was passed on Thursday, will have the…
· Ryan General
Female reporter in China is doxxed, ‘slut-shamed’ for decade-old diary entries and low college test scores
Chinese reporter Wang Bingbing faced online shaming after details of her past relationships and low college test scores were doxxed. Social media users came to her defense and called out Wang’s critics for the invasion of her privacy and “slut-shaming.” Several local…
· Bryan Ke
Chinese man who ran away because he failed college is reunited with his family after 16 years missing
A Chinese man who ran away because he failed college due to video game addiction is now back with his family after finding out they reported him missing 16 years ago. He is back: A video posted by Xiashi News shows the emotional reunion between Wang, 39, and his family in Xi’an…
· Michelle De Pacina
Video of ‘scallion pancakes’ served on ‘Asian food night’ at American college goes viral
A TikTok video has gone viral after revealing an American college’s incorrect presentation of Chinese scallion pancakes during an Asian food night. The “Scallion Pancake”: In the now-viral video which was uploaded on Nov. 4, a batch of Chinese scallion pancakes can be seen…
· Jiselle Lee
University of Oxford graduate college to be renamed for Vietnam’s richest woman
A University of Oxford college is planning on changing its name to Thao College after receiving £155 million from a Vietnamese investment group. Donation: Linacre College signed a memorandum of understanding on Oct. 31 with SOVICO group to receive a donation of £155 million…
· Bryan Ke
Survey: 34% of white college students lied about their race to improve their admission, financial aid odds
A recent survey has found that 34% of its white respondents admitted to lying about being part of a racial minority to boost their chances of getting accepted into college. Taking advantage: The survey, which questioned 1,250 white college applicants aged 16 and up, discovered…
· Bryan Ke
‘Xenophobic weapons’: Emerson College and conservative group fight over ‘China Kinda Sus’ stickers
Emerson College officials are investigating Turning Point USA (TPUSA), a conservative nonprofit group from the college’s Boston campus, for handing out stickers that allegedly criticized the Chinese government. What happened: The stickers, which contain a character from the…
· Carl Samson
Asian Americans in elite colleges would rise by 2 percentage points if admission is only based on tests, study says
Editor’s Note: The headline of this article has been updated from its original version to say that the number of Asian American students would increase, not decrease if tests alone were used in college admissions. Nearly a quarter of Asian Americans accepted to elite colleges…