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By Allyson Pang (Editor note: This story is a joint project between AsAmNews and AARP and is funded by AARP) How can a person care for their family even when they're thousands of miles away? Nepali American immigrant Bijay Khanal has found a way. At 18 years old, Khanal moved from the...

Hundreds of young Nepali men have been drafted into a war thousands of miles away: the Russia-Ukraine war.  According to The New York Times, most of the Nepali men who have gone to fight have enlisted in the Russian army. They have agreed because of the Russian government’s promise of...

Hasta Gautam, a 52-year-old Nepali man residing in Texas, was arrested on charges of trafficking 200 Nepali people to various countries under false pretenses of job opportunities.  He allegedly collected over 20 million Nepali Rupees (around 150 thousand US Dollars) from the people he trafficked. According to NepalNews, the Human Trafficking...

By Yunfei Liu Trupti Patel has been working as a server in local restaurants in D.C. since 2011. Transitioning from one shift to another, she packs up her lunch before her work to save money and experiences the strain on her knees after working shifts that can extend from 6...

by CalMatters, CalMatters Network September 20, 2023Stay up-to-date with free briefings on topics that matter to all Californians. Subscribe to CalMatters today for nonprofit news in your inbox.Guest Commentary written byPrem PariyarPrem Pariyar is a Nepali Hindu Dalit social worker and a regional director for the National Association for...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJTXq8WA9Js A recent landmark Supreme Court ruling in Nepal allows same-sex couples to legally register their marriage, marking a huge win in LGBTQ+ rights in Asia, reported Human Rights Watch. Nepal is now the second country in Asia to register same-sex marriage. The first to do so is Taiwan in...

By Sunita Sohrabji, Ethnic Media Services In 2014, Prem Pariyar’s father, who lives in Kathmandu, rented a truck for a day at a cost of 50 Nepali rupees. He asked the owner of the truck to come back the following day to get the payment, the equivalent of 38 cents...

By Lindsay Wang, AsAmNews, Maya Seo & AsAmNews Staff and Volunteers (AsAmNews updated this guide originally published May 1, 2022 on April 30, 2023) In 2021, AsAmNews published what is arguably the most comprehensive guide ever to supporting the Asian American community. This year to kick off AAPI Heritage Month, we...

By Randall Yip, AsAmNews Executive Editor Asian American youth living on the margins in New York City will be the direct beneficiaries of $1.5 million in funding from the The Jeremy Lin Foundation in collaboration with The Asian American Foundation (TAAF). The seed money announced today will go to nine...

By Jessica Xiao, AsAmNews Contributor WASHINGTON, D.C. - On Saturday, just over forty years since the murder of Vincent Chin, hundreds of people gathered on the National Mall for unity amongst communities of color against racism, in a burgeoning attempt to grapple with AAPI identity in social justice movements and...

By Lindsay Wang, AsAmNews, Maya Seo & AsAmNews Staff and Volunteers (AsAmNews updated this guide originally published May 1, 2022 on April 30, 2023) In 2021, AsAmNews published what is arguably the most comprehensive guide ever to supporting the Asian American community. This year to kick off AAPI Heritage Month, we...

Prem Pariyar, 37, a Nepali immigrant, is considered Dalit, the lowest run of the caste system. He's one of a growing number of South Asians pushing for awareness of the caste system in the United States and urging universities to take action against it, reported USA Today. According to...

By Rhiannon Koh, AsAmNews Despite being part of the United States’ story, the Asian American community and their diverse experiences have been largely ignored and sanitized in educational materials. This limited narrative has had devastating consequences, especially since the highly politicized outbreak of COVID-19. Paired with the social justice protests...

South Asians are at four times greater risk of developing heart disease, reports the American Bazaar. According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, South Asians make up 60% of all heart disease cases worldwide. In the United States, that's lead to increase attention to the risks. “It’s part of my genetics, for...

Photo by Shrimpo1967 retouched by Papa Lima Whiskey 2 via Wikimedia Commons A Hong Kong school teacher set the record as the fastest female climber to scale Mount Everest, People reports. Tsang Yin-hung, 45, scaled the world's highest peak from the base camp in 25 hours and 50 minutes. The...

By Lindsay Wang, AsAmNews Associate Editor Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community has experienced an exponential growth in anti-AAPI hate and violence. Every week, social media feeds are flooded with news reports of assaults and attacks on the elderly, the...

President Joe Biden sent warm wishes to Indian Americans, South Asians and Southeast Asians on the eve of their New Year, Hindu Business Line reports. “(First Lady) Jill (Biden) and I send our warmest wishes to the South Asian and Southeast Asian communities who are celebrating Vaisakhi, Navratri, Songkran and the incoming...

By Nathan Reddy, Community Works I am Indian American. That statement does not represent the amount of time and experience it has taken for me to break that to you. The identification came about through my just completed participation in Cornell’s The Public Service Center Scholars Program. Two years ago,...

By Shirley Lew “CelebrAsian” was this year’s theme for the 40thanniversary of the Asian Pacific Heritage month festival on New York City's Mott Street, organized by the Coalition of Asian Pacific Americans (CAPA). It was a hot day, but that didn’t deter many from enjoying the musical performances, demonstrations...

Views from the Edge By 2065, Asian Americans are on track to be the largest immigrant population in the U.S.  Much of that remarkable growth is driven by the South Asian population which grew a staggering 40% in seven years, from 3.5 million in 2010 to...