Winsome goof Joe Biden, giving a commencement address at the Ivy League's University of Pennsylvania on May 13, delivered a few China barbs that probably shouldn't have come from a US vice president. "It was a humiliating experience," Chinese citizen Zhang Tianpu, a graduating Wharton senior, told SCMP. "And how can a graduation speech be this political?" ...

Bo Jiang, the suspected Chinese spy who was pulled off a plane on March 16 just as it was preparing to fly him out of the country, downloaded more than just classified NASA documents and sensitive information, as revealed by Bloomberg. Actually, let's back up a bit. Did he actually possess classified NASA documents and state secrets? In late March, US Magistrate Judge Lawrence Leonard released Jiang from cu ...

A week after a pair of bombs placed near the finish line at the Boston Marathon killed three, wounded 183 (including 13 with lost or maimed limbs) and ignited a weeklong manhunt that culminated in a violent standoff with a pair of ethnic Chechens, Lu Lingzi, the 23-year-old Boston University graduate student from Shenyang who was killed in the blasts, was remembered Monday night at an emotional service at B ...

New York Fucking City. Goddamnit. I warn you in advance, everything that follows is merely the work of Envy, so it may not be appropriate for all audiences. A rich fucking woman bought a prestigious New York City property recently, an apartment in the unifinished One57 tower on 57th St. between Sixth and Seventh Aves. For her piece of shit toddler. From the Telegraph: "We were running around the city lookin ...

The US Justice Department has filed charges against a Chinese researcher it nabbed off a China-bound airplane on Saturday night as it was pulling away from the gate at Dulles International Airport. Bo Jiang, who is suspected of spying, held a one-way ticket and lots of sensitive information, according to CBS News. He will appear for a detention hearing on Thursday. ...

You don't have to brand yourself, of course, because that would be racist. But this is very interesting, via Vancouver's Straight.com via Reddit: On the ICBC website, the public auto insurer notes its official "L and N signs let other motorists know you're a new driver or motorcycle rider". Apparently, some drivers are going one step further and letting people know that they're a Chinese driver. I'd be will ...

Yichun Xu, 19, was charged with vehicular homicide in Des Moines, Iowa Washington on November 10 for speeding through a stop sign and crashing into a car full of people, one of whom later died from her injuries. Xu was driving four female passengers and reportedly going up to 70 miles per hour in a residential neighborhood. As reported, Xu was visiting the US for eight weeks to attend Puget Sound Community ...

By most accounts, Chinese children adopted by American families live better lives than they would have back home. It's not really even close, in many cases, as the difference is quite literally that between a first-world country and a third-world environment. You can scan this adoption network's FAQ to get an idea of the conditions from which many children are plucked. But not all adoption stories have happ ...

If you're an Asian woman seeking love on the interwebs, or living in China (or many places in Asia, while we're at it), perhaps you can relate. There are only two posts on this new Tumblr, Creepy White Guys, but give it time. Surely there are more white men out there who love martial arts and anime and believe Asian girls are like lotus flowers, docile and submissive. Chrysanthemums, Mulan, tiger moms, dain ...

In a Super Bowl filled with moments, including Jacoby Jones's 108-yard kickoff return, Colin Kaepernick's touchdown scramble (longest TD run by a quarterback in Super Bowl history) that pulled the 49ers within two from 22 points down, Ed Reed's interception, double-murderer Ray Lewis's missed tackles, THE POWER OUTAGE (that enabled all of us to play Power [Outage] Hour), etc. etc., the biggest moment -- at ...

Calling southern California's maternity hotels "underground money-making schemes," a Los Angeles lawmaker wants them shut down in order to restrict the inflow of pregnant Chinese women seeking to give birth on American soil. Via Reuters: Los Angeles County Supervisor Don Knabe asked colleagues to approve a series of steps designed to ultimately close the hotels - typically single-family homes carved into be ...

Jay Chou would never, ever get away with walking down any street in China without getting mobbed, but he could in the US. The average American would turn his or her head, surely, because Chou's a megawatt superstar, but would he be recognized? Maybe not yet, but that could change, especially if he appears in any more great segments like this one from a recent Jimmy Kimmel episode. ...

AP reports: An Arkansas 911 operator did not enter a call into a computer system that would have notified police and fire dispatchers of a mother and son trapped inside a vehicle in a pond, authorities said Wednesday. The woman died hours later, and her 5-year-old son was in critical condition Wednesday, police said. The Little Rock operator who handled the call from 39-year-old Jinglei Yi has been placed o ...

In November, Angry Asian Man noticed a very peculiar Android app that was being sold in Google Play: "Make Me Asian." The program works by superimposing straw hats and fu manchus on user-uploaded pictures, which, um... yeah, don't do that. Oh hells no. At the risk of giving this damn thing more attention than it deserves, behold this ridiculously racist Android app ...

Does the above look familiar? It should. The exterior and interior, in one way or another, has appeared in such movies as Men in Black III, Seinfeld, The Fisher King, Mickey Blue Eyes... And it most likely only exists on a Hollywood sound stage. As the movie location scout who runs the blog Scouting New York notes, the classic stereotypes we hold about what a Chinese restaurant in America should look like o ...

This is a nice story, which you should check out if you're into that kind of thing. At the famous New Year's Day Rose Bowl parade on Tuesday in Pasadena, California, 57 middle school students from Beijing marched alongside San Jose's Valley Christian High School. CNN has the inspiring story of how it all came together: A few years ago, when [band director Troy] Gunter and the band returned from a trip to Ca ...

A Chinese national trying to buy iPhones in Nashua, New Hampshire was tasered outside an Apple Store last Friday. A cell phone video shows 44-year-old Li Xiaojie being held to the ground before police knocked her unconscious with tasers. Her 12-year-old daughter was with her. Li was at Pheasant Lane Mall to buy her third and fourth iPhones, after she had purchased two the previous day. She said it was for f ...

Are you sick of Christmas yet? The tawdry lights, varnished commercialism, snowy cliches? Has the inner cynic in you roused like the rough beast slouching toward Bethlehem? Then this story is for you. Via the Washington Post: To celebrate the Sackler Gallery’s 25th anniversary, Cai Guo-Qiang, the Chinese artist famous for his Olympic pyrotechnics display and his gunpowder art, plans to ignite a daytime fire ...

Yongda Huang Harris, you're not doing it right. You're not doing it right at all: A Boston-bound man wearing body armor, flame retardant leggings and knee pads under his trench coat arrested at Los Angeles International Airport after a Customs and Border Protection officer found a smoke grenade and several weapons in his checked luggage is facing a federal charge for transporting hazardous material on an ai ...

Patrick Epino and Stephen Dypiangco are a pair of Los Angeles-based filmmakers who want to bring joy to your life. Consider: an action-comedy Web series involving some of your favorite Asian baddies, such as characters from Karate Kid 2 and basically every movie Al Leong's done. If that's something you might be interested in, check out their Kickstarter, Awesome Asian Bad Guys, which needs just over $18,000 ...