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· Carl Samson
Police in the Canadian city of Richmond are searching for an Asian driver who allegedly struck an 11-year-old boy and left him to fend for himself on Wednesday. The incident reportedly occurred in the area of Number 1 Road and Tucker Avenue just before 9 a.m. The child was…
· Bryan Ke
Saudi Arabia announced on Tuesday that it won the bid to host the next Asian Winter Games in 2029 at its planned TROJENA resort that will be completed in 2026. The resort is part of Saudi Arabia’s futuristic $500 billion NEOM project. “TROJENA will have a suitable infrastructure…
· Bryan Ke
Constance Wu revealed during Facebook Watch’s “Red Table Talk” on Wednesday that Marvel star Simu Liu once joked about her controversial “Fresh Off the Boat” tweets during Character Media’s Unforgettable Gala – a few months after her suicide attempt in 2019. “At that time, there…
· Carl Samson
Mohammed Majidpour, 35, is now wanted Canada-wide for allegedly attacking a 19-year-old Asian woman in downtown Vancouver on Sept. 27. The victim, who is a student, was walking near Dunsmuir and Cambie Streets at around 9:50 a.m. when a man hit the back of her head with a pole,…
· Ryan General
Researchers from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention analyzed the data of 70,000 Asian Americans sampled from the U.S. Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System surveys conducted from 2013 to 2020. The new study…
· Khier Casino
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Fielding School of Public Health researchers have been awarded $3 million to study the sexual and reproductive health of Asian immigrant women in the U.S. The five-year study, which will be conducted in New York, Georgia and…
· Michelle De Pacina
Duchess of Sussex Meghan Markle discussed the “toxic” stereotyping of Asian women in the latest episode of her podcast, “Archetypes.” Along with journalist Lisa Ling and comedian Margaret Cho, Markle broke down the trope of the “dragon lady” and criticized films such as “Austin…
· Carl Samson
Lathan Johnson, 37, is facing robbery and hate crime charges after allegedly targeting South Asian women in a two-month robbery spree in the San Francisco Bay Area. Beginning in June, Johnson snatched approximately $35,000 worth of necklaces off of at least 14 women in San Jose,…
· Michelle De Pacina
An investigation is underway after a man was captured in a viral video hurling racist remarks at an Asian couple in Bolton, England, during an altercation. The incident took place shortly after the couple and the man were involved in a collision. The man, an employee of the…
· Khier Casino
A 70-year-old woman was assaulted and robbed of her life savings by three men pretending to be utility workers in Daly City, California, according to her granddaughter. Surveillance footage at the elderly woman’s home showed what appeared to be a man wearing a construction…
· William Yuk
Conflated together yet culturally fragmented, oppressed and rarely acknowledged as so, the AAPI experience can be a frustratingly punishing play on paradoxes. For political strategist and designer-turned-director Frank Chi, the conflict of his career is a similar situation that…
· Khier Casino
Designer OHT has called out Forever 21 for copying their designs after customers sent the New York City-based brand photos and videos of similar necklaces found in-store and online. In an Instagram post last week, OHTNYC founder and designer Jinsol Woo and his business partner…
· Daniel Anderson
A new survey of 1,000 mainland Chinese citizens found that a majority had “little to no interest” in U.S. travel. The biggest reasons all involve perceived anti-Asian violence and discrimination in the U.S., with 57% citing violent crime, 52% citing terroism and 44% concerned by…
· Michelle De Pacina
Asian American TV reporter David Louie has retired after 50 years of working at ABC7 in San Francisco. He was one of the first Asian American journalists to be hired by a TV news outlet in the Bay Area, and has been on air the longest. Over the years, Louie took on many of the…
· Carl Samson
Gov. Tom Wolf’s Advisory Commission on Asian Pacific American Affairs and the American Jewish Alliance launched the Pennsylvania Asian Pacific American Jewish Alliance (PAPAJA) on Thursday. United by shared experiences of increased violence in recent years, the alliance seeks to…
· Carl Samson
Chicago police are looking for a man and a woman in connection with a Red Line train robbery that left an elderly Asian man bleeding profusely from his head. The incident, which was caught in a now-viral video, occurred near the 95th/Dan Ryan stop at 15 W. 95th St. at around…
· Michelle De Pacina
A 19-year-old Asian student was hit on the back of her head with a pole by a man on Tuesday in what police are investigating as a racially motivated attack in downtown Vancouver. The perpetrator allegedly hurled anti-Asian racial slurs before fleeing the area. The victim…
· Michelle De Pacina
The Association of Asian American Investment Managers surveyed more than 600 women who identify as Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders and work in investment management from different backgrounds. About 60% of Asian American women who work in the financial sector say their…
· Carl Samson
Tammel Esco, 42, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to first-degree assault as a hate crime in connection with a brutal attack on an elderly Filipino woman in Yonkers, New York, on March 11. Esco and the victim reportedly lived in the same apartment building where the incident took…
· Khier Casino
Japanese Twitch streamer and Dota 2 player Xiinya has gone viral for taking the toxic comments she receives online and turning them into an electronic dance music (EDM) bop. Xiinya lists out the vulgarities she hears while going live on the Southeast Asian server in the…
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