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News
5 Vietnamese Americans elected to Oregon House
Newly elected representatives Dr. Hai Pham (D, OR-36), Dr. Thuy Tran (D, OR-45), Hoa Nguyen (D, OR-48), Daniel Nguyen (D, OR-38) and incumb...
Ryan General
Crime
Portland man behind series of anti-Asian attacks charged with third bias incident for assault and robbery
Dylan Kesterson, 34, is now facing a total of 23 charges after it was discovered that authorities had also linked him to a third bias incid...
Bryan Ke
Portland court dismisses bias crime case against man who kicked Asian woman due to public defender shortage
A court in Portland, Oregon, has dismissed the bias crime case against a man accused of kicking an Asian American woman and spewing racial s...
Oregon City mayoral candidate says the city’s homeless will live like ‘the Japanese’ if he wins
Oregon City mayoral candidate Leslie Wright said he wants the homeless in his city to live like “the Japanese people” by placing them in a ...
16-year-old charged with the murder of Milana Li, 13-year-old girl found dead in an Oregon stream
Daniel Ryan Gore, a 16-year-old juvenile, has been charged with murder in the first degree for the death of Milana Li, a 13-year-old girl w...
Michelle De Pacina
Death of missing 13-year-old girl found in an Oregon stream is ruled a homicide
Milana Li, a 13-year-old sixth-grade student, was found dead in a park in Beaverton, Oregon, on May 10, about 24 hours after her mother rep...
Hundreds of students at an Oregon high school walkout to protest racist anti-Asian, Black, Muslim video
Hundreds of students at an Oregon high school walked out of class in protest on Wednesday after their peer posted a video in which they used...
Sarah Yukiko
Politics
Rep. Pham, daughter of Vietnamese refugees, comes ‘full circle’ to welcome Afghan refugees to Oregon
An Oregon state representative wants to give a proper welcome to the Afghan refugees who will be arriving in the state early next year. A pr...
Viral
‘What about stray people?’: Chinese TikToker shocked by number of homeless people after living in US for 2 years
A Chinese woman recently took to TikTok to express how shocked she was after seeing the staggering number of homeless people living on the s...
Entertainment
Oregon has been luring tourists with Studio Ghibli-style animated ads for years
A new video from a long-running tourism ad campaign contains the right blend of whimsy and pastel colors to make it seem like a teaser for a...
Chinese American congressional gold medal awardee Fred Cheong Lee dies at 96
A Chinese American WWII army veteran, who received the Congressional Gold Medal in 2019, recently passed away after succumbing to prostate c...
Oregon woman tells Filipino man to ‘go back to the Philippines,’ yells the N-word
A viral video on Twitter shows an Oregon woman spewing anti-Asian comments at a couple, telling them to ‘go back to Philippines’ before drop...
Daughter of WWII Concentration Camp Detainee Becomes First Asian American Female Episcopal Bishop
A 61-year-old woman, whose family suffered during World War II due to their Japanese ancestry, became the first Asian American woman consecr...
Asian American Man Punched in Hate Crime Asks for Attacker to Get Restorative Justice, Not Jail
A Portland man has agreed to participate in a restorative justice resolution instead of facing jail time for attacking an Asian American man...
College Student Kicked, Racially Abused by 2 Men in Oregon
An Asian woman in Salem, Oregon was allegedly pushed and kicked by two men in an attack now under investigation as a possible hate crime. Th...
Carl Samson
Oregon Bar Gets Review Bombed on Yelp Over Racist ‘China Virus’ Sign
A bar in Oregon has drawn backlash over its use of anti-Asian message on its electronic billboard. The Trophy Club in Medford recently adve...
Man Charged With Hate Crimes After Kicking, Spewing Racial Slurs at Asian Woman in Portland
A man in Portland, Oregon has been charged with bias crimes after allegedly kicking and racially attacking an Asian American woman last week...
Feature
Portland Man Charged With Hate Crimes, Robbery After Attacking Afghan Store Owner
A man in Portland, Oregon is facing bias crime charges after attacking an Afghan American store owner last Friday. The incident, which was c...
Portland Man Charged With Hate Crime After Punching Asian American at Train Station
A man in Portland, Oregon has been charged with a hate crime after allegedly punching an Asian American commuter earlier this month. The inc...
Man Charged for Fatal Stabbing of Portland Kimchi Entrepreneur
A 30-year-old man has been charged in the fatal stabbing of an entrepreneur credited for popularizing kimchi in Portland, Oregon. Matthew Ch...
Kimchi Company Co-Founder Fatally Stabbed in Portland Home
A man credited for popularizing kimchi in Portland, Oregon died after getting stabbed in his home over the weekend. Matthew “Matt̶...
Civil Rights
Oregon State Rep Candidate Called a ‘Chink’ in Racist Note
A Republican candidate for state representative in Oregon received a shockingly racist hand-written note on one of his campaign letters in t...
Ziye Wang
Oregon Woman Apologizes for Racist Tirade Against Filipina-American After Going Viral
Sierra Measelle, the woman behind the racist tirade against a Filipino American in Oregon, is apologizing for the “ignorant, hateful comment...
Racist Oregon Woman Accuses Asian Woman of Being Illegal, Threatens to Call the Cops
A woman in Portland, Oregon took to Facebook to expose a racist lady who accused her of illegally “crossing the border” with her family. Sel...
The U.S. is Keeping 123 South Asians Seeking Asylum in an Oregon Prison
The U.S. government detained 123 migrants hoping to seek asylum in a federal prison in Sheridan, Oregon, over the last month. Most of the de...
2 Men Arrested for Money Laundering, Possession of Over 100 Child Porn Videos in Oregon
Two men, identified as Fong Lee and Ying Moua, were arrested at the Portland Amtrak station on Dec. 7 after authorities discovered they were...
Asia
Oregon Man Who Sexually Abused Children Arrested in Shanghai
Toby Mendenhall, a man from Portland, Oregon who is accused and wanted for child sex crimes, was recently extradited back to the country fro...
Asian Doctor Reveals Heartbreaking Stories About Treating Neo-Nazi Patients
Meet Esther Choo. She is a doctor based in Oregon, where a lot of White nationalists are based. ...
Editorial Staff
Activists Publicly Expose White-Owned Restaurants Guilty of Cultural Appropriation All Over Portland
Two white women closed down their pop-up burrito shop in Portland, Oregon after receiving public backlash for cultural appropriation and all...
Khier Casino
Oregon Restaurant Cleaner Refuses to Serve ‘Orientals’, Claims They Don’t Discriminate
Chef Han Ly Hwang of Kim Jong Grillin and Chef Kyo Koo of Danwei Canting in Portland, Oregon claimed they were discriminated against after t...