Month: October 2024

A new Barbie will help celebrate the largest Indian festival of the year. Mattel announced the release of its first “Barbie Diwali doll” on Friday in an homage to the…

SEOUL, South Korea — An 81-year-old South Korean fashion model fell short in her bid to become the oldest Miss Universe contestant after competing in the country’s national pageant against…

A longtime aide to embattled New York Mayor Eric Adams has stepped down. Winnie Greco, the city’s director of Asian Affairs, resigned Monday after more than a decade working closely…

For all that comedian Ali Wong talks about sex onstage, her first three specials came from a place of inherent sexual constraint: a long-term, monogamous marriage. In “Single Lady,” her fourth, self-directed…

South Korea’s “haenyeo,” or women divers, say that they’ve become inseparable from their deep blue environment. In Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai’s first executive-produced film, she explores the divers’…

Longtime WNBA coach Natalie Nakase has made history. Nakase, assistant coach of the Las Vegas Aces, was announced Thursday as the head coach of the expansion Golden State Valkyries, who…

Spanish tennis star Paula Badosa apologized after being accused of racism for pulling her eyes back with chopsticks in a photo posted to Instagram by her coach, Pol Toledo. The…

A longtime aide to embattled New York Mayor Eric Adams has stepped down. Winnie Greco, the city’s director of Asian Affairs, resigned Monday after more than a decade working closely…

In the first college admissions process since the Supreme Court struck down affirmative action last year, Asian American enrollment at the most prestigious U.S. schools paints a mixed, uneven picture.…

In Forsyth County, Georgia, Kannan Udayarajan, 42, sends his kids to local public schools that are now majority Indian American. The area, nearly all white 20 years ago, has since…