Senator Tammy Duckworth has spoken out against the escalating violence towards Asian Americans. Speaking to CBS, the Illinois senator said she is calling for a federal response to address anti-Asian racism and partly blames former President Trump. “Remember that a lot of the rise of Asian– anti-Asian violence started because of efforts by the far-right media and also by then President Trump,…
Nigel Ng has said Stop AAPI Hate needs to be rebranded to “Yellow Lives Matter”. Ng, who is known for his Uncle Roger character, made the comments during a Rice To Meet You podcast. “I still think we need a catchier catchphrase okay,” Ng said about discussing hate crimes towards Asians. “Yellow lives matter that should a thing.” “I’m gonna keep hopping on this…
Six Dr Seuss books will no longer be published due to racist imagery. In a statement, Dr Seuss Enterprises confirmed that And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, If I Ran the Zoo, McElligot’s Pool, On Beyond Zebra!, Scrambled Eggs Super!, and The Cat’s Quizzer will be shelved indefinitely. “These books portray people in ways that are hurtful and wrong,”…
An Australian rapper has filmed himself spewing racist hate towards an Asian woman in Sydney. The rapper, who is known as Fleks City, filmed himself on a Sydney train racially harassing the woman. “How about you fuck off to China,” he is heard saying. “You invaded our country.” The video footage, which shows the woman being held back by male friend,…
A Buddhist temple in Los Angeles has been set on fire and vandalized. Higashi Honganji Buddhist Temple in Little Tokyo, LA, was left with broken windows, damaged lanterns and burnt property. CCTV footage showed a man jumping over the fences on Thursday night and foot-high glass window with a rock. He then pulled two metallic lanterns from their concrete bases and set…
The suspect who stabbed an Asian man in Manhattan Chinatown will not be facing hate crime charges. 23-year-old Salman Muflihi stabbed the 36-year-old victim in an unprovoked attack outside the federal courthouse on Thursday. Muflihi told police he stabbed his Asian victim in the back because he “didn’t like the way he looked at him.” The suspect is charged with second-degree attempted…
A Chinese good samaritan has died after being stabbed whilst he tried to stop a robbery in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. Yong Zheng, 46, was celebrating the lantern festival on Friday when he saw an Asian man being viciously attacked and robbed outside an illegal gambling den. Zheng attempted to intervene to end the fight but was fatally stabbed by William Smith, 45….
A university lecturer has been attacked by a gang of men in Southampton. Dr Peng Wang was jogging during the daytime when four men shouted racist abuse from a car. They were saying things like Chinese virus, get out of the country and dirty words,” Wang recalled. After Wang responded by shouting back, the men got out of the car and…
Minari has won the Best Picture Foreign Language award at the Golden Globes. Starring Steven Yeun, Minari is a semi-autobiographical film by director Lee Isaac Chung which tells the tale of a Korean American family moving to rural Arkansas. Yeun plays the father of the household, Jacob. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) had come under fire for categorising the drama in the foreign-language category as American…
Chloé Zhao has made history by becoming the first Asian woman to win Best Director Motion Picture at the Golden Globe Awards. The Chinese director won the award for her 2020 film Nomadland. She is only the second woman to win the award. Barbra Streisand was the first in 1984. Based on the 2017 non-fiction book Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century by Jessica Bruder, Nomadland centres on…
