Seventy-nine percent of 2016 Asian American voters wanted Hillary Clinton for president, while a majority supported stricter gun control laws, comprehensive immigration reform, and laws that protect the LGBT […]
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How A Single Trump Sentence Enraged South Korea
U.S. President Donald Trump’s apparently offhand comment after meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping — that “Korea actually used to be a part of China” — has enraged many […]
Filipino American Becomes Chess Champion
Checkmate. After three attempts since 2015, Filipino American Wesley So has won the 2017 U.S. Chess Championship, which took place from March 29 to April 10 in St. Louis. […]
North Korea Accuses US Of Creating Situation For Nuclear War
UNITED NATIONS — North Korea’s deputy U.N. ambassador accused the United States on Monday of turning the Korean Peninsula into “the world’s biggest hotspot” and creating “a dangerous situation […]
United Says No One Will Be Fired For Dragging Incident
United Airlines executives said Tuesday that it’s too soon to know if last week’s dragging of a man off a plane is hurting ticket sales. The chief executive said […]
Breast Cancer Rates Are Up Among Asian Americans
Asian American women have experienced steadily increasing breast cancer rates over the past 15 years, according to a study conducted by the Cancer Prevention Institute of California. The study […]
Evicted United Passenger Identified As Backlash Against Airline Grows
The man who went viral after videos of him being forcibly removed from a United Airlines flight sparked widespread outrage has been identified as physician David Dao. Dao, seen […]
Airbnb Host Says No Rooms For Asians: ‘It’s Why We Have Trump’
Airbnb has reportedly removed one of its hosts in Running Springs, California, after a woman — Korean American Dyne Suh — accused a host of canceling her cabin reservation […]
United Flight Drags Bloodied Man From Overbooked Flight
On Sunday, passengers of an overbooked United Airlines flight in Chicago watched a bleeding man being forcibly dragged out of a plane by a police officer. The unidentified man […]
Hawaii Attorney General Douglas Chin On The Harm Of The Travel Ban
Hawaii, one of the states against President Donald Trump’s revised travel ban — which restricts travel from six Muslim-majority countries — has been fighting the executive order ever since […]
Park Arrested And Jailed Following Impeachment
South Korea’s disgraced former President Park Geun-hye was arrested and jailed Friday over the corruption allegations that already ended her tumultuous four-year rule and prompted an election to find […]
Indian American Community Gifts $100,000 To Bar Shooting Hero
An Indian American community group in Texas gifted a $100,000 check to Ian Grillot, the 24-year-old man who was shot and hospitalized after intervening to help two Indian men […]
‘Run Arabs Out Of Our Country’: Man Attempts Arson On South Asian-Owned Store
A convenience store in Port St. Lucie, Florida, was nearly set on fire Friday by a man who thought its owners were Muslim and who wanted “to run the […]
South Korea Ousts President Park Geun-hye For Corruption
SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea’s Constitutional Court removed impeached President Park Geun-hye from office in a unanimous ruling Friday over a corruption scandal that has plunged the country […]
Senators Condemn Discrimination In Resolution Commemorating Japanese Internment
On the 75th anniversary of the issuance of Executive Order 9066, which led to the internment of over 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II, Hawaiian Senator Mazie Hirono […]
