Family of mentally ill man shot dead by LAPD in Koreatown demands answers

The family of Yong Yang, a man fatally shot by the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) in Koreatown last week, is speaking out and demandin...

Woman diagnosed with ‘love brain’ after calling boyfriend 100 times in a day

A Chinese doctor recently shared a case about a patient she diagnosed with “love brain,” who became heavily dependent on her boyfriend and e...

Woman videoed angrily smashing robot in Chinese hospital garners sympathy online

In a video widely circulating on social media, a Chinese woman can be seen destroying a robot at a hospital. The footage, which was uploaded...

Suspect in murder of elderly Asian man in LA had mental issues that ‘came out of nowhere’, uncle says

Keonte Woods, 25, is accused of fatally stabbing 70-year-old Dal Lee in Los Angeles’ South Main Street on May 5. Lee was sitting inside hi...

Customer kicked out for not wearing pants smashes windows, doors of Chinese restaurant in Queens

A man booted out of 4 Choices & A Soup on Roosevelt Avenue in Flushing, Queens, retaliated by smashing glass windows and doors at the r...

Hong Kong mother pleads guilty to fatally strangling, slashing wrists of her 16-year-old daughter

A 54-year-old mother in Hong Kong, Kwok Lin-choi, pleaded guilty before the High Court to manslaughter for drugging, strangling and slashin...

Sujata Day, Ritesh Rajan of ‘Definition Please’ on normalizing South Asian stories and erasing mental illness shame

“Definition Please” stars Sujata Day and Ritesh Rajan spoke with NextShark about normalizing South Asian American stories and erasing the s...

Ruling that man who killed three Asian men with hammer is ‘not responsible’ due to mental illness angers victims’ widows

Arthur Martunovich, 37, was transferred to a maximum security psychiatric hospital Thursday after Brooklyn Supreme Court Judge Danny Chun d...

Taiwan-Born Lawyer Receives Hate Mail for Defending Man Accused of Attacking 75-Year-Old Woman in SF

Eric McBurney, a Taiwan-born public defender from San Francisco, has received hate mail for representing Steven Jenkins, the 39-year-old hom...

Man in China Held Captive By Family For 12 Years Because of Mental Illness

Wang Zhiqiang has spent over 10 years of his life chained and locked up in a tiny room outside his mother’s house. Zhiqiang, who was b...

Japanese Woman Dies After Being Imprisoned for More Than 15 Years By Her Parents

A 33-year-old Japanese woman reportedly froze to death in her tiny windowless room where she was confined by her parents for more than 15 ye...

Chinese Patients Suffering From Serious Mental Illness Rising at Alarming Rate

More and more people in China are being diagnosed with serious mental health issues, recent government data has revealed. According to the ...

Japanese Companies Must Now Hire More Workers With Mental Health Issues

Japanese companies are starting to hire more people with mental health issues in preparation for a new law addressing the employment of thos...