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A new study has found teachers bias Asian students with higher expectations of academic performance. Conducted by Keitaro Okura, a sociology Ph.D. candidate at Yale, Okura controlled for students’ socioeconomic status and academic achievement, but found various biases from teachers.

Some key discoveries from the study include teachers reporting more positive assessments of Asian students ability and attentiveness in the classroom compared to their white peers, as well as having higher expectations on Asian students’ academic future, expecting them to obtain a college degree and recommending them for honors or advanced placement courses. 

• Family-run Chinese restaurant Kowloon in Boston has been a landmark institution since the 1950s, known for having a capacity of 1,200 seats and for its kitschy Polynesian decor.  

• Chinese immigrant parents are finding a hopeful and promising future at Yu Ming Charter School, a Chinese-language-immersion institution in Oakland.   

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• Olympic fencing medalist Ibtihaj Muhammad has called out the New Jersey second grade teacher who tried to pull off the hijab of her 7-year-old Muslim student.

• A top Chinese diplomat in the U.K. is facing backlash over alleged footage showing him kicking down a pro-democracy poster and pulling the hair of a protester before said person was dragged inside consulate grounds and beaten.

• Chinese president Xi Jinping announced new policies to combat China’s steadily declining birth rates.

• The Downtown Community Television Center in New York is opening a theater in Chinatown exclusively showing documentaries.

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• Simu Liu is set to star in the Prime Video action-adventure series “Seven Wonders” based on the novel from Ben Mezrich, with Justin Lin directing. 

• Saudi Arabia has sentenced 72-year-old U.S. citizen Saad Ibrahim Almadi to 16 years in jail for a tweet he made in the U.S.
   
• Gigantic produce from a farm in China’s Shandong province has gone viral.
   
• Activists are worried about the safety of Iranian rock climber Elnaz Rekabi, who competed in Seoul over the weekend without wearing Iran’s mandatory hijab.  
   
• A 73-year-old Buddhist monk in Thailand started a 3,145 kilometer journey, barefoot, to raise money for a hospital. 
   
• Hong Kong police have arrested a Japanese adult video actor for her involvement in a prostitution ring.