For Asian-Americans, by Asian-Americans
A mid-air axe attack. Sharp turns and sudden plunges toward the ground. What exactly happened during the attempted hijacking aboard a flydubai flight departing from Dubai? The Boeing 737 MAX was carrying 170 people, including staff and passengers, nearly all of whom were Israeli. Flydubai flight FZ1073 departed from Dubai International Airport, en route to…
On Friday, September 18th, a vehicle bomb tragically exploded at a police complex in northwestern Pakistan, killing at least 21 and injuring nearly 80 others. The coordinated assault was the latest in a wave of violent attacks near the Pakistani-Afghan border. “Pakistani Taliban militants have increasingly targeted police and other security forces,” and consequentially, the…
At a glance, it looks like any other American suburb, with cookie-cutter houses, softball fields, and Christmas lights. But this is nowhere in the United States. This is Dharan, a 22.5 square mile compound on the east coast of Saudi Arabia, built for American expatriate workers of Aramco, the biggest oil company in the world.…
As July 2026 came to an end, the United States made a historical intervention to help the plummeting value of the Japanese yen. The yen dropped to a 40-year low compared to the US dollar in early July. Earlier, the Japanese government tried to prop up the yen, but failed to halt the backslide. Pedestrians…
Nauru, a small island in the remote South Pacific, is the world’s third smallest country. It has a population of just 12,000—less than half the population of Greenwich Village in New York City. Colonized by Germany and then administered by Australia, the nation gained independence in 1968, with “phosphate mining creating huge wealth on the…
On August 7, 2026, the nations of Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Turkey signed the Mecca Joint Defense Agreement. This joint defense agreement states that an attack on one nation is an attack on all, with associated consequences. Following a year of negotiations, the pact was signed in Mecca, an Islamic holy site. Pakistan has “provided…
The thumbnail of the Shen Yun 2024 official trailer on YouTube. You may have seen YouTube ads for “Shen Yun,” a dance performance that tours the world, advertising itself as “China before communism.” Shen Yun is sponsored by Falun Gong, a new religious movement that emerged in China in the 1990s. The Falun Gong’s emblem,…
President Trump announced in the evening of Tuesday, April 7th, that a ceasefire proposed by Pakistan had been agreed to by the US and Iran. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has also confirmed that Iran had agreed to the deal. The news came just hours before President Trump’s deadline for a deal with Iran. If…
This article was written by Melinda Liu. In a time when China is increasingly at odds with the Western world, it may be surprising to learn that much of its younger generation holds quite positive views towards China. For example, one needs to look no further than the “chinamaxxing” trend, a showcase of a growing…
This article was written by Melinda Liu. -The war on Iran is estimated to have so far cost 3.7 billion dollars in its first 100 hours – that is 90 million dollars a day. This is owed to the use of massive amounts of munitions, stealth bombers, and advanced weapons systems, Washington-based think tank the…
-American stealth bombers will soon land in UK bases, The Telegraph reports. While the UK had initially denied American requests to carry out strikes from its bases, on Sunday, it relented and would allow use for “specific and limited defensive purposes.” US troops pose with a B-2 stealth bomber – a model that may soon…
This article was written by Melinda Liu. Day 5, March 4 -An American torpedo fired from a submarine hits an Iranian warship off the coast of Sri Lanka, in the Indian Ocean, US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth claims. While Hesgeth stated that the ship had been sunk on Tuesday and that it “died a…
This article was written by Melinda Liu. -The IDF strikes a building in Tehran where the 88-member Assembly of Experts was meeting to choose Iran’s next supreme leader. No injuries or death have been reported yet, but Iranian media stated that the building was “flattened.” -The US Embassy in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, is hit by…
This article was written by Melinda Liu. Day One, February 28 – 1:15 am ET: US Central Command announces via X (formerly Twitter) that American forces, alongside Israeli ones, are launching Operation Epic Fury with “large-scale coordinated strike campaign against Iranian military and regime targets.” A missile launching from a U.S. vessel in the Middle…
This article was written by Melinda Liu. The basis of the cyberpunk literary genre is oppressive megacorporations and advanced yet dystopian cities. A subgenre of science fiction that first emerged in the 1970s, exemplified by Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Blade Runner (1982) marked the genre’s first breakthrough. An iconic hit,…
This article was written by Melinda Liu. Editor’s Note: This article was written during the October-November 2025 government shutdown, but food security among Asian-Americans is such an underrepresented yet critical topic. It’s October 1st, 2025, at midnight. The U.S. government has entered a shutdown because Republican and Democratic lawmakers in Congress are locked in a…
This article was written by Melinda Liu. The United States adopts more children from abroad than any other country, in an act known as international adoption. 13% of adopted children are adopted internationally, and of those, more than half (51%) are from Asia. China, specifically, made up 29% of all internationally adopted children – more…