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Stop AAPI Hate: Industry Heavyweights, Activists On Hollywoods Responsibility Matt Donnelly, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Flabbergasted on a Zoom call, “Nomadland” director Chloe Zhao accepted the Golden Globe for best director on Sunday night. Between gratitude and marveling over the historic moment, as the first person of Asian descent and second woman ever to win the prize, came a somber question. Zhao was asked for her thoughts on increased violence against Asian American Pacific I...

Brandon Yu March 4, 2021Updated: March 4, 2021, 3:47 pm Kelly Marie Tran (left, with Daisy Ridley in 2019’s “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker”) is the lead voice of the new Disney animated film “Raya and the Last Dragon.” Photo: Jonathan Olley, Lucasfilm Ltd. In 2018, months after Kelly Marie Tran had appeared onscreen in the latest installment of the “Star Wars” franchise, she wrote an opinion piece for the New York Times. It was at once a raw account of the quiet ra...

The U.S. Is Seeing a Massive Spike in Anti-Asian Hate Crimes Photo: Oakland Chinatown Chamber of Commerce Last week, actors Daniel Dae Kim and Daniel Wu announced that they were offering a $25,000 reward to anyone who could help identify the person who was caught on camera shoving a 91-year-old man in Oakland’s Chinatown. The attack came amid a sudden and massive rise in the number of hate crimes against Asian Americans across the country, a phenomenon many activists argue is ...

The #StopAsianHate movement was born out of increased violence against Asian Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic. Here, Henry Golding and more on how to help.

King Arthur isn’t just any old story; it is one of those foundational myths of English identity that make you groan whenever you hear someone’s doing a new version – like Robin Hood or Sherlock Holmes or Winston Churchill. (Next up is Dev Patel in David Lowery’s delayed Arthurian head-trip The Green Knight, and even as we speak, news is breaking that Zack Snyder is working on a “faithful” King Arthur retelling). Arthur’s re-emergence at a time of national upheaval, less than a yea...

2021/02/28 21:33 (CNA photo) TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Meteorologist Daniel Wu (吳德榮) said on Sunday (Feb. 28) that temperatures in Taiwan will range from highs of 28 to 31 degrees Celsius across the country on Monday (March 1). Wu forecast partly sunny conditions nationwide for Monday, but he noted another cold air mass will move south on Tuesday, causing the mercury to drop to around 18 degrees for daytime highs in northern Taiwan, CNA reported. Tempe...

Top political leaders promised support and tougher action against racially-motivated attacks on Asian Americans.

As the number of violent attacks against Asian Americans escalates, former NBA star Jeremy Lin said he has experienced racism while playing basketball.

Tech company issues statement after Bay Area job posting requires applicants be non-Asian KGO Share: SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- A now removed Bay Area job posting by a tech company on LinkedIn has drawn immense criticism for requiring applicants to be "non-Asian." Stephen Lis girlfriend was on LinkedIn earlier this month when she noticed a posting by the tech company Aptude. Upon closer inspection under "job requirements" were the words "non-Asian". "My girlfriend found it and was so shocked and sh...

Burma Superstar offers $5,000 reward as ABC7 receives reports of additional attacks on Asian Americans KGO Share: SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- After receiving dozens of stories of attacks on the Asian American community ABC7 News anchor Dion Lim began noticing a trend: very few are actually reported to the police. In recent days, Dion received videos showing a woman getting dragged through an Oakland street in a strong-armed robbery as she clung to her purse. Less than five minutes away, another woma...