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· Ryan General
Warning: This article contains spoilers from the film “Star Wars: The Last Jedi”. Paige Tico, played by actress Veronica Ngo, pulled off an incredibly moving act of sacrifice in the action-packed opening of “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” that is so perfect it makes up for her very…
· Max Chang
Last week, Warren Chan, former transition team member for Democratic New York City Councilman Justin Brannan, made headlines for a FaceBook comment he left on Assemblywoman Yuh-Line Niou’s page. Chan’s comment received heavy criticism, and he was subsequently dismissed from…
· Carl Samson
Ah, MSG. With these three letters, pause for a moment and recall everything you feel about them strung together. What pops into your head?
· Editorial Staff
Meet Kelly Marie Tran. Unless, you’ve been living under a rock, she plays mechanic “Rose Tico” in “Star Wars: The Last Jedi”.
· Kevin Nguyen
Editor’s Note: Kevin Nguyen is a Vietnamese-American blogger. The views expressed in this piece are solely his own. Have you ever wondered why Asian men are seen as unattractive in Anglo Saxon countries? It’s because we are minorities in a larger pool of people. It’s high school…
· Max Chang
In the aftermath of the Alabama Senate Race, Democratic Assemblywoman Yuh-Line Niou, like many netizens, took to social media to post her thoughts on the matter — specifically, the trending statistics that showed Black men and women overwhelmingly voted for Doug Jones in the…
· Ryan General
As Japan’s high life expectancy contributes to its rapidly aging population, the government has reportedly been making sure that its elders are looked after better than its Asian neighbors. Based on the 2015 Global AgeWatch Index figures, Japan ranks first in Asia for reporting…
· Carl Samson
A racist crowd fell silent after mocking an Asian player during a high school basketball game earlier this month. Freshman Yuuki Okubo, who plays for Crossroads High School’s Roadrunners, stands at 5 foot 5 inches tall.
· Carl Samson
We’ve all seen at least one person who just can’t stop shaking his or her legs. Odds are that could even be you. In that case, chances are someone has asked you to stop doing it.
· Anna Gracia
“You’re hapa!” the girl shrieked, running at me with arms open. “What?” I replied, confused as to both what “hapa” meant and who this girl was.
· Carl Samson
Ethnicity happens to have something to do with earwax, in case you haven’t heard yet. As a matter of fact, Whites and Blacks have earwax that’s yellow and sticky, while Native Americans and East Asians have white and dry earwax.
· Heather Johnson Yu
A woman from Nanjing, Jiangsu province, China has been offered two refunds after both her iPhone X devices were unlocked by her colleague through faulty facial recognition. The woman, who wishes to be referred to by her last name, Yan, told the Jiangsu Broadcasting Corporation…
· Doug Kim
At the age of 22, I graduated from a top U.S. university and was about to start a career in a coveted industry of management consulting in New York. On top of that, I won millions of dollars at the main event of the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas. By all accounts, I had…
· Carl Samson
A 29-year-old Sydney man feels disgusted after killing his own niece out of sexual attraction. Derek Barrett previously pleaded guilty in the murder of 25-year-old Mengmei Leng, whom he stabbed multiple times in two days of torture last year.
· Max Chang
An Asian man has been caught on camera hurling racial abuse at another Asian person and even threatening them with a bat over a parking spot. The incident, which took place by Union Square in San Francisco, was recorded by one of the driver’s passengers and uploaded to World…
· Carl Samson
I started doodling at the age of 3. I can vividly remember the euphoria that came with gripping a fresh set of crayons, each color filling the void of blank papers with strokes I thought were genius. The world was at my fingertips, and with school starting the following year, I…
· Editorial Staff
San Francisco Mayor Edwin M. Lee, who championed affordable housing and the tech boom in Silicon Valley, has passed away at 65. Lee collapsed suddenly while shopping at a local Safeway grocery store near his home in Glen Park at around 10:30 p.m. on Monday, according to SF Gate.…
· Heather Johnson Yu
Yahoo Entertainment released an article on the untimely death of Wu Yongning, a social media star known for his daring stunts on Chinese skyscrapers; unfortunately, they used a photo Wu Vanness, a Taiwanese drama star married to Singaporean heiress, Arissa Cheo. In an archived…
· Editorial Staff
A Los Angeles Police Department Officer has been hailed a hero after rescuing a cat in a neighborhood affected by the Skirball Fire. Officer Tae Kim was going door to door in Bel-Air when he came across a cat that appeared to be in distress. The cat was in a house with the front…
· Ranier Maningding
Editor’s Note: Ranier Maningding is a copywriter and mastermind behind the social justice page “The Love Life of an Asian Guy”. The opinions expressed in this piece are solely his own. So you’re at the dinner table on Christmas night, laughing with your cousins who you haven’t…
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