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· Ryan General
Disturbing Massachusetts Bill Pushes for Data Collection of Asian-Americans
A bill that seeks to collect data from Asian-American and Pacific Islander ethnic groups in Massachusetts has been met with outrage from the concerned communities in the state, with many calling the proposal a “racist bill”. Introduced by Democratic Rep. Tackey Chan of…
· Khier Casino
United Airlines Sued For Kicking Asian Toddler Out of Paid Seat
Shirley Yamauchi, who was forced to hold her 2-year-old son on her lap in late June after United Airlines gave the seat she paid for to a standby passenger, is suing the carrier. The 47-year-old mother, who teaches at Kapolei Middle School in Hawaii, hopes that the lawsuit will…
· Ryan General
Japan’s First Lady Avoids Talking to Trump By Pretending Not to Know English For 2 Hours
Japan’s First Lady won major internet points after finding a way to avoid talking to Donald Trump at the recent G20 summit — by pretending not to speak any English. Akie Abe, the wife of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo, was seated next to the controversial POTUS at a dinner on…
· Heather Johnson Yu
United Forces Asian Toddler Out of Paid Seat Because Flight was Overbooked
Has United Airlines learned nothing? According to Hawaii News Now, a teacher from Hawaii was forced to hold her toddler throughout the entirety of their three and a half hour flight even though she had purchased a ticket for him. The reason? United Airlines had given away his…
· Carl Samson
Meet The Chinese-American Who Made $500 Million For His Startup Last Year
Kenneth Lin, founder and CEO of Credit Karma, has announced that the personal finance company increased revenues by about 50% to $500 million last year. It was 2007 when Lin started Credit Karma as a means of helping people make financial progress. Five years later, the company…
· Khier Casino
Meet Two Incredibly Badass Asian Americans Who Could Be NASA’s Next Astronauts
Dr. Jonny Kim and Raja Chari are two impressive Asian Americans who made it into NASA’s 2017 astronaut candidate class, having been chosen from a pool of over 18,000 applicants. The top 12 astronaut candidates, whose names were announced on Wednesday, will report to Johnson…
· Hannah Tran-Trinh
What It’s Like Having All White Friends in College
Editor’s note: This post originally appeared on Amherst Wire. Only 25 percent of University of Massachusetts Amherst students are people of color.
· Ryan General
Why ‘Future Internment Camp’ Signs Are Popping Up All Around the U.S.
Signs containing the message “Future Internment Camps”, purportedly signed by U.S. President Donald Trump, have sprouted in different construction sites all around the United States. The alarming notices appeared in various U.S. cities over the weekend of March 4th. As realistic…
· Ryan General
Malaysian School Under Fire For Encouraging Religious Discrimination in Children
Since racism and other prejudices are learned at a young age, coming across any school activity that perpetuates stereotypes and profiling can understandably cause parents alarm. That was the case of a school test in Malaysia the basically encouraged religious profiling by…
· Khier Casino
Man Crashes Funeral to Make Racist Comments on Asian Woman’s Death
The funeral for 65-year-old Carol Tan Wong was interrupted by a stranger who made derogatory remarks about “incense at Asian churches” being the cause of her death. On March 18 at a funeral home in Quincy, Massachusetts, Wong’s son, Adrian, delivered a eulogy for his mother, who…
· Khier Casino
China’s Air Will Soon Be Only Second in the World for Air Pollution Deaths
India has surpassed China as the most polluted nation in the world with about 1.1 million people dying from PM2.5-related health problems — and the death toll continues to climb, according to the State of Global Air Report 2017. Since 2010, air pollution levels have risen…
· Ryan General
Meet the Filipina-American Actress Who’s DC Comics’ Newest Star
A Filipina-American is currently playing the recurring role of Martian M’gann M’orzz (Miss Martian in the DC Comics lore) in this season of ‘Supergirl’. Sharon Leal, a 44-year-old actress (yes, you read that right) who played roles in other American TV series such as “Legacy”,…
· King Malleta
Japanese Psychic Ordered to Pay $850,000 to Client She Forced into Sex Work
A fortune teller has been ordered to pay a massive amount of money to a female client after she forced her to become a sex worker. Fortune telling is something you shouldn’t really take seriously as there is no strong basis for such predictions, but while other people do it for…
· Carl Samson
China Will Have 415 Million New Tech Jobs in by 2035
While robots have started replacing workers in China, 415 million jobs are expected in the country by 2035 — and they’re all in tech. If it sounds promising, employees might want to start learning skills that are not easily replaced by artificial intelligence as soon as…
· King Malleta
Why Foreign Students Struggle to Find Work in the U.S. After Graduation
Getting a job nowadays is hard, but it is made more difficult for foreign students who are hoping to get hired after graduating from a university in the U.S. According to Market Place, many foreign graduates face a lot of challenges once they get out of the university. A report…
· Benny Luo
Donnie Yen is Cool, But His Mother is MUCH Cooler
Donnie Yen has been making some huge strides in mainstream entertainment. From his breakout roles in the “Ip Man” movies to his recent role as Chirrut Îmwe in “Star Wars: Rogue One”, it’s safe to say that Yen is (and has been) making quite a name for himself. However, there’s…
· Khier Casino
Asian American Author Orders the Saddest Caesar Salad of All Time, Twitter Erupts
A tweet by New York Times bestselling author Celeste Ng went viral when she posted a photo of an underwhelming salad that she was served at a hotel in New Orleans. Ng, the author of “Everything I Never Told You,” accompanied the picture with the caption, “This is not what I…
· Editorial Staff
Neo-Nazi Blogger Declares New Balance ‘The Official Shoes of White People’
People have been burning their New Balance sneakers after a white supremacist website, the Daily Stormer, dubbed the athletic gear “the official shoes of white people.” Andrew Anglin’s alt-right website supported New Balance over the weekend, writing in a blog post that he’s “a…
· Ryan General
Robots, Not the Chinese, Are Taking American Factory Jobs
Factory production in America has maintained a steady growth over the past few decades, making the country No. 2 in the world just behind production powerhouse China. However, as machines begin to take over and do much of the manufacturing work, factory jobs have declined…
· Max Chang
Japanese BBQ Joint Puts White Guy Between Two Asian Girls Because It’s More ‘Marketable’
American-Japanese BBQ chain Gyu-Kaku happily announced the opening of their third Florida restaurant in Orlando with some Asian fetishism. Gyu-Kaku, which specializes in “authentic Japanese Yakiniku,” exists in over 35 locations around the United States in cities like Los…