Keke Palmer series sparks backlash for portrayal of Asian student at HBCU

Keke Palmer is facing criticism following the release of “Southern Fried Rice,” a new KeyTV series about a Korean American student raised by...

Hmong refugee pardoned by Michigan governor still faces deportation to Laos

A gubernatorial pardon in Michigan has not ended the deportation threat for Lue Yang, a 47-year-old Hmong refugee and community leader who r...

New York AG launches portal to report ICE following Chinatown raid

New York Atty. Gen. Letitia James has opened a “Federal Action Reporting Portal” to collect photos and videos of possible violations during ...

Could GOP’s outreach efforts to Asian Americans help flip New Jersey governorship?

The battle for New Jersey’s governorship may hinge on Asian American voters, with Democratic officials acknowledging the party’s uphill clim...

Harvard’s Asian American enrollment surges in 2nd year after affirmative action ban

Harvard College’s Asian American enrollment has climbed to 41% in the Class of 2029, an 11-percentage-point jump since the Supreme Court ban...

Oregon officials address burglaries targeting Asian Americans

A public safety forum drew more than 100 attendees to the Korean Presbyterian Church in Eugene, Oregon, last Thursday, where officials discu...

Rina Sawayama criticizes Sabrina Carpenter performance for mishandling Japanese culture

Japanese British artist Rina Sawayama has accused “Saturday Night Live” of mishandling Japanese cultural symbols in Sabrina Carpenter’s Oct....

Dodgers’ Yamamoto makes World Series history

Japanese pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto achieved a feat last seen more than two decades ago on Sunday, throwing his second consecutive postseaso...

Beijing creates new national observance linking Taiwan to China’s wartime victory

China has designated Oct. 25 as the Commemoration Day of Taiwan’s Restoration, a new national observance intended to reinforce Beijing’s sov...

Kamala Harris signals 2028 presidential run: ‘I am not done’

Former U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris has indicated she may seek the presidency again, telling the BBC, “I am not done,” during an interv...

Historian races to record fading memories of Japanese Americans at Topaz camp

As the number of surviving Japanese American World War II internees declines, oral historian Diana Tsuchida is intensifying her efforts to r...

Lighter skin not linked to desirability in Asian American dating, study finds

A speed-dating study by psychologisfound no evidence that lighter skin increases romantic desirability among Asian American singles. The res...

Japan elects its 1st woman prime minister — but will it advance gender equality?

Sanae Takaichi has become Japan’s first woman prime minister since the country established its modern parliamentary system 140 years ago, ye...

Trump pardons Binance founder Changpeng Zhao

President Donald Trump this week pardoned Changpeng Zhao, the convicted Binance founder whose company provides infrastructure for the Trump ...

Man convicted in execution-style killing of Chicago Chinatown grandfather

A Chicago jury on Thursday found a man guilty of first-degree murder in the execution-style killing of a 71-year-old grandfather in Chinatow...

Trump nominee withdraws over anti-Asian, pro-Nazi remarks

Paul Ingrassia, President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Office of Special Counsel (OSC), withdrew from consideration earlier this week fol...

Federal raid on Manhattan’s Chinatown sparks fear among Asian Americans

Federal agents targeting street vendors in Manhattan’s Chinatown earlier this week detained nine immigrants on counterfeiting charges, an en...

Indian American GOP political figures face racist attacks over Diwali celebrations

FBI Director Kash Patel faced a torrent of racist and Hinduphobic comments on social media earlier this week after posting Diwali greetings,...

Dylan Harper and the ‘Asian Jokić’ headline new NBA class of Asian talent

Two of the NBA’s most anticipated rookies, Filipino American guard Dylan Harper and Chinese center Yang Hansen, are set to make their regula...

Chinese American Nobel laureate who pioneered modern particle theory dies at 103

Nobel laureate Chen Ning Yang, who spent decades advancing physics in both the U.S. and China, died in Beijing on Saturday at 103 due to ill...

Why Asian American women are more likely to develop dementia than men

Asian American women may face a higher lifetime risk of developing dementia than their male counterparts partly because men are more likely ...

Japanese American descendants bring baseball back to Manzanar incarceration camp

When baseball returned to Manzanar last year after more than eight decades, descendants of incarcerated Japanese Americans took the field on...

Florida politician censured for urging deportation of all Indians in US

Following weeks of public pressure, the Palm Bay City Council voted 3-2 on Oct. 16 to censure Council member Chandler Langevin for posting a...

S. Korea preps sanctions against Cambodia scammers as US intensifies crackdown

South Korea plans to impose financial sanctions on Cambodia-based criminal organizations involved in online scams and human trafficking, a m...

Blackpink’s ‘Most Influential Women’ Asia ranking reflects rising K-pop power

K-pop’s global ascent reached a new benchmark with Blackpink securing the No. 1 position on Fortune’s inaugural “Most Influential Women” Asi...

Vietnamese mother released after 154 days in ICE detention

A Maryland woman separated from her four children for 154 days under the Trump administration’s mass deportation campaign reunited with her ...

For Asian Americans, ‘No Kings’ is about more than partisanship

Asian American leaders emerged as prominent voices in the nationwide “No Kings” demonstrations on Saturday, where an estimated seven million...

Simu Liu says ‘Sleeping Dogs’ film script is finished

Simu Liu revealed over the weekend that the first draft of the script for the live-action adaptation of cult classic video game “Sleeping Do...

Oakland’s Chinatown mural “Together, We Rise” turns unity into action during United Against Hate Week

Presented by California vs Hate, a program of the California Civil Rights Department In 2021, a 91-year-old man was shoved to the ground in ...

Daniel Dae Kim’s ‘Butterfly’ cancelled after one season

Prime Video has dropped “Butterfly,” the espionage series fronted by Daniel Dae Kim, ending one of the streamer’s largest Asia-based origina...

How Trump’s immigration policies will hit Asian workers hardest

The Trump administration’s immigration policies will reduce the U.S. labor force by 15.7 million workers by 2035, including 4.7 million from...

Author Baek Se-hee dies at 35, saves 5 lives through organ donation

Baek Se-hee, the South Korean author whose bestselling memoir candidly explored living with depression, died at age 35, the Korean Organ Don...

Immigration advocate Kent Wong dies at 69

Kent Wong, the longtime director of UCLA Labor Center and prominent advocate for immigrant and worker rights, died Oct. 8 at a Los Angeles h...

Taiwanese visitors wear badges in S. Korea to avoid anti-Chinese hostility

Taiwanese tourists visiting South Korea have begun wearing identification badges to avoid being mistaken for Chinese nationals amid escalati...

ICE plans round-the-clock social media surveillance of immigrants, activists

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is establishing dedicated social media surveillance teams at two facilities, with plans to hire ne...

Chinese scientists achieve world’s 1st successful living pig-to-human liver transplant

In a world-first, Chinese researchers have successfully transplanted a genetically engineered pig liver into a living human, proving that a ...