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· Heather Johnson Yu
ABC Tragically Cancels ‘Dr. Ken’ After Two Seasons
“Dr. Ken“ has been cancelled after surviving for two seasons on ABC. The TV network axed several other shows this season, including “American Crime”, “Imaginary Mary”, “Secrets and Lie”s, and “The Catch”. The news comes ahead of ABC’s upfront presentation Tuesday, where they…
· Khier Casino
Adorable Little Boy Becomes NYC Police Officer For a Day Thanks to Make a Wish
Battling intestinal failure since birth, 5-year-old Eric Cao’s dream to be a police officer became a reality. Thanks to the New York Police Department and the Make-a-Wish Foundation, the young boy from Brooklyn got to live out his dream by being made a lieutenant for a day.
· Ryan General
Dennis Rodman Takes Credit for Convincing North Korea to Release Otto Warmbier
If retired NBA star Dennis Rodman is to be believed, he played a huge role in last week’s release of American college student Otto Warmbier from a North Korean prison. In an interview with ABC’s Good Morning America on Friday, Rodman claimed credit for Otto Warmbier’s freedom,…
· Khier Casino
Elephants Squad Up to Rescue Baby From Drowning at South Korean Zoo
An incredible moment passed when two adult elephants came to the rescue of a calf drowning in a swimming pool at the Grand Park Zoo in Seoul, South Korea. Surveillance footage released by the zoo on June 18 shows the baby elephant playing in the water near the adult elephants…
· Ranier Maningding
White People Made a Comedy About North Korea, Now They Want Sympathy for Otto Warmbier
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. Trigger Warning: Violence
· Khier Casino
Korean Woman Visiting Her Daughter Brutally Beaten, Robbed at California Hotel
Police are searching for three men who beat and robbed a Korean woman who was visiting her daughter in California outside a Best Western Hotel in Placentia last Friday. Officers arrived at the hotel at around 9:30 p.m. after receiving a report of a robbery and discovered the…
· Carl Samson
Man Arrested in Orange County For Assault, Attempted Kidnapping of Female Store Employee
An Asian man has been arrested for dragging a female baby store employee into a storage room this weekend. The crime, which police called an attempted kidnapping, occurred roughly before 7:20 p.m. at the Mon Beau Bebe store, a maternity and baby boutique located at 6226 Irvine…
· Khier Casino
Otto Warmbier, Student Released By North Korea, Has Died
Otto Warmbier, the U.S. college student who was detained in North Korea for more than 17 months before coming back home to Ohio last week, has died, his family said Monday. The 22-year-old former University of Virginia student was sentenced to 15 years of hard labor for stealing…
· Guy Aoki
Bill Maher Called Me a Chink, But He Apologized for Using the N-Word
I felt a sense of deja vu hearing about Bill Maher being taken to task for saying “nigger” on his “Real Time With Bill Maher” HBO series, which aired on June 2nd. You see, I debated Sarah Silverman on Maher’s previous talk show incarnation — ABC’s “Politically Incorrect“ — on…
· Khier Casino
Visiting Scholar From China Reported Missing from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
A visiting Chinese student, 26-year-old Zhang Yingying, has been missing from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus since Friday afternoon, local police reported. The Fujian-native has degrees from Peking University and Sun Yat-sen University, and arrived in the…
· Ryan General
Horrific Armed Robbery of Asian Home in California Leaves 3 Dead, 1 Wounded
Police are still investigating the case of a puzzling gunfight in East Fresno that resulted in three people dead and one person wounded. Two armed men, identified as half-brothers Xavier Williams, 23, and Elijah Mays Sr., 27, both of Sacramento, reportedly entered the home of an…
· Ryan General
Witnesses Take Videos as Philadelphia Councilman Gets Stabbed in Attempted Robbery
An Asian American city councilman in Philadelphia was stabbed by a knife-wielding man who tried to rob him near his home. According to police Lt. John Walker, the suspect approached Republican Councilman David Oh as he was emerging from his car late Wednesday night.
· Editorial Staff
‘The Asian Playboy’ Has the Perfect Response to Asian Women Who Say They ‘Don’t Date Asian Men’
In a recent Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything), JT Tran, known as a dating coach extraordinaire, university lecturer and the creator of “ABCs of Attraction“, dropped some sage advice for Asian men who face romantic discrimination in the dating world. It has long been an issue that…
· Khier Casino
Former Frat Bros Plead Guilty to Manslaughter After Hazing Pledge to Death in 2013
Four former Baruch College fraternity brothers in New York pleaded guilty on Monday to the 2013 death of Pi Delta Psi pledge Chun “Michael” Deng in the Pocono Mountains, Pennsylvania. Sheldon Wong, 24, Charles Lai, 26, Kenny Kwan, 28, and Raymond Lam, 23, have been charged with…
· Ryan General
Australia’s Best Math Teacher is a Super Fly Asian Man
An Asian-Australian math teacher’s unique teaching style has turned him into Australia’s favorite high school teacher. Co-head mathematics teacher Eddie Woo, whose parents migrated to Australia in the early 1970s, has been teaching at Cherrybrook Technology High School in Sydney…
· Khier Casino
Ken Jeong Makes Immediate Comeback, Joins Cast of ‘Crazy Rich Asians’
You’ll probably recognize him as Mr. Chow in “The Hangover” and Ben Chang in NBC’s “Community”, but Ken Jeong has now been cast in Warner Bros’ “Crazy Rich Asians”! He is the latest actor to join the all-Asian romantic comedy alongside Constance Wu, Henry Golding, Gemma Chan,…
· Guy Aoki
‘Dr. Ken’s’ Cancellation Could Mean Dark Times For Asian Americans in Television
Little did we know when Margaret Cho’s “All American Girl” debuted on ABC in September 1994 that we’d have to wait more than 20 years to get another Asian American family sitcom. It wasn’t for lack of effort. Since 1999, I’d been part of the Asian Pacific American Media…
· Khier Casino
Passengers Join Forces to Rescue Elderly Woman Trapped Between Train and Platform in China
This is the heart-stopping moment a group of commuters teamed up to save an elderly woman whose leg fell through a gap between the train and station platform in Guangzhou Metro on Saturday. Footage from the scene shows more than a dozen good Samaritans and rail workers combining…
· Heather Johnson Yu
Why ‘I Don’t Date Asian Guys’ Is Problematic (Especially When Asian Women Say It)
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past week, you’ve heard about Lily May Mac’s scandalous tweets that have landed her some seriously negative publicity. As the days go by, more and more tweets are uncovered, such as her disdain for Asian men, her likening Black…
· Ryan General
LAPD Cop in Desperate Need of a Filipino Bone Marrow Donor
A Filipino-American police officer with the Los Angeles Police Department is in dire need of a bone marrow match from someone of Filipino heritage. Officer Matthew Medina, a seven-year veteran of the police force, is reportedly suffering from aplastic anemia, a blood disorder…