News & Views

A peek at John McCain’s To Do list (as dictated by his communist brainwashers) should he become President

Date posted: May 5, 2008

You thought the Olympic torch had a rough trip through France? Just wait till it hits Asia!

Date posted: April 15, 2008

TMM talks with Jennifer 8. Lee, author of “The Fortune Cookie Chronicles”

Date posted: March 3, 2008

Asian-American voters deserve to know which candidate is more … “Manchurian”

Date posted: February 4, 2008 12:59 PM

A look at Chinese astrology and the U.S. elections in this month’s Postcard from Shanghai

Date posted: January 31, 2008 3:38 PM

Will assassins target Benazir Bhutto’s 19-year-old son? Not if his Facebook fans have anything to say about it.

Date posted: January 4, 2008 10:24 AM

Move over, PETA. Greenpeace now has its own self-righteous spokes-blonde

Date posted: November 6, 2007 3:26 PM

No joke! Burma’s Stephen Colbert arrested once again

Date posted: November 2, 2007 1:03 AM

Japan and China name their rockets after fairies?

Date posted: October 29, 2007 4:30 PM

America’s stop-and-go space program is no match for China’s slow and steady progress

Date posted: October 29, 2007 12:33 PM

China, Japan and India race to moon and beyond

Date posted: October 18, 2007 11:12 AM

For non-Asians, seeing so many Asian faces on campus can be intimidating and confusing. It doesn’t have to be.

Date posted: October 1, 2007 11:31 AM

An astrological take on the numbered days of Burma’s generals

Date posted: September 27, 2007 3:37 PM

Nuon Chea was Pol Pot’s deputy. The one question on everyone’s minds: What will that wacky war criminal say next?

Date posted: September 19, 2007 3:36 PM

TMM takes a look at the uncanny parallels between Britney Spears and Shinzo Abe

Date posted: September 14, 2007 12:41 PM

Unsolicited advice for turning Africa into a global brand

Date posted: August 28, 2007 7:43 PM

Just nabbed, Indonesia’s leading terrorist Abu Dujana makes TMM’s Terrorist Top 5

Date posted: June 14, 2007 2:07 PM

A Korean middle school deploys robot guards to protect students from molesters

Date posted: June 5, 2007 10:21 AM

With his fixation on “Asian whores,” GQ magazine editor joins Don Imus in the dog house

Date posted: May 15, 2007 7:33 PM

In honor of Mother’s Day, TMM pits Jewish moms against Chinese moms, head-to-head in… the Ultimate Showdown!

Date posted: May 11, 2007 2:52 PM

India’s moral police round up kissing bandits Richard Gere, Shilpa Shetty and now Ash!

Date posted: May 1, 2007 11:19 PM

Illinois high schooler Allen Lee is arrested after “violent” writings

Date posted: April 26, 2007 11:42 AM

In the wake of the Virginia Tech shootings, the racial profiling of Asian males is a legitimate fear, as one SUNY student discovered

Date posted: April 25, 2007 9:55 AM

The stereotype of the meek and mild Asian may be a thing of the past. What’s the next wacko demographic?

Date posted: April 24, 2007 2:00 PM

Channeling Chandler on the mean streets of Nagasaki, where a mobster takes out the mayor

Date posted: April 20, 2007 4:50 PM

An American expat in S. Korea sheds light on the nation’s collective shame over the Virginia Tech killer, a native son

Date posted: April 18, 2007 10:09 AM

The alien-ness and alienation of Virginia Tech spree killer
Seung-Hui Cho

Date posted: April 17, 2007 12:53 PM

Anti-Asian backlash strikes Virginia Tech student Wayne Chiang

Date posted: April 17, 2007 10:58 AM

Asia’s criminal gangs
go global

Date posted: April 2, 2007 3:23 PM

TMM’s hit list of Asian fightin’ words, from “Apu” to “Wog”

Date posted: March 18, 2007 11:00 PM

Hot-tempered, fiesty, drunk—Koreans are the Irish of Asia. But who are the Swiss, the Mexicans, the Haitians of our favorite continent?

Date posted: March 14, 2007 9:00 AM

Ann Coulter, David Duke, Kenneth Eng. How well do you know your megalomaniacs?

Date posted: March 9, 2007 8:57 PM

America thinks Kenneth Eng is the face of Asian American racism. Really, he’s just nuts.

Date posted: March 9, 2007 2:18 AM

He’s no Michael Richards, but Kal Penn is pissing off black fans with a KKK spoof

Date posted: March 6, 2007 5:50 PM

Taiwan wants independence. China wants Taiwan. How can these two mismatched lovers live in peace?

Date posted: March 2, 2007 11:51 AM

How one revealing dress set off a firestorm of moralizing in the land of prostitutes and permissiveness.

Date posted: February 28, 2007 9:52 AM

Everyone agrees genocide is bad, but what people don’t know is it’s also hard. From Pinochet to bin Laden, the least competent population-wiper-outers in history.

Date posted: February 13, 2007 5:20 PM

A new tribunal is set to try the surviving Khmer Rouge leaders, but can the judges navigate Cambodia’s crazy justice system?

Date posted: February 13, 2007 3:51 PM

Here are the Top 10 reasons why he’s really one of ours

Date posted: February 12, 2007 12:04 PM

Major meltdown for Trekkie Congressman David Wu

Date posted: January 17, 2007 5:46 PM

With two members of the Lotus Club now in Congress, will we get a day off on Buddha’s Birthday?

Date posted: January 4, 2007 5:54 PM

UN Chief Ban-ki Moon gets some astrological guidance, courtesy of TripmasterMonkey

Date posted: January 3, 2007 2:31 AM

Who knows what’s lurks in 2007? The Monkey knows…

Date posted: January 1, 2007 1:08 PM

Turkmenistan’s late president may have looked like a dictator, but his eccentric, repressive decrees were really just jokes. What’s Turkic for “Gotcha!”?

Date posted: December 21, 2006 10:41 AM

Same lessons, different wars. How Iraq and Vietnam became mirror images of each other

Date posted: December 6, 2006 6:27 PM

Fiji’s military takes over, locals yawn

Date posted: December 5, 2006 12:12 PM

Kim Jong-il made the U.S. naughty list this year, and the TMM elves have a few more ideas on what to get the Dear Leader

Date posted: November 29, 2006 1:56 PM

If only Virginia Sen. George Allen had said “maraca”

Date posted: November 8, 2006 5:34 PM

After Japan’s thrilling upset in horse-racing’s Melbourne Cup,
Asia too can claim the words “jock” and “stud”

Date posted: November 7, 2006 6:26 PM

California politican Tan D. Nguyen is a disgrace to the race

Date posted: October 21, 2006 9:57 PM

Ragging on the Dear Leader does no good. Here are 10 new ways to make fun of the Hermit Kingdom.

Date posted: October 11, 2006 11:07 AM

Don’t want to celebrate Euro-imperialism on Columbus Day? Try the Chinese version instead!

Date posted: October 9, 2006 10:21 AM

Meet the next UN chief, South Korean diplomat Ban Ki-Moon

Date posted: October 3, 2006 8:54 PM

Iva Toguri D’Aquino died this week but the myth and mystique of her radio persona Tokyo Rose continues

Date posted: September 28, 2006 5:53 PM

Japan flexed, China went dark, Cambodians raced cattle—it all happened this week in Asia.

Date posted: September 27, 2006 5:18 PM

Pakistan’s head of state (and his remarkable head of hair) appears on “The Daily Show”

Date posted: September 27, 2006 9:20 AM

An American expat’s account of Thailand’s “smooth as silk” coup

Date posted: September 25, 2006 11:14 AM

It was flowers in the streets of Bangkok as Thais hailed their new military overlords.

Date posted: September 21, 2006 1:41 PM

Expat sex bloggers are driving Asia crazy and making us wonder: Why aren’t we getting any?

Date posted: August 31, 2006 11:34 AM

New Orlean’s Vietnamese community says, No landfill in our backyard!

Date posted: August 29, 2006 9:59 AM

U.S. soda giants get popped by a small Indian environmental group

Date posted: August 27, 2006 8:53 PM

The first Australian to win the “Nobel Prize of Math” is Asian, naturally

Date posted: August 22, 2006 4:42 PM

JonBenet’s purported killer sought refuge in Bangkok, where else?

Date posted: August 17, 2006 4:51 PM

CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta practices emo-journalism at its best, one war zone at a time

Date posted: August 2, 2006 5:04 AM

Mutant Ninja Tomato Stalks Kyoto!

Date posted: July 30, 2006 9:22 PM

Chinese culture purists find new chicken sandwich ad completely tasteless

Date posted: July 20, 2006 1:51 AM

Looking East for Kofi Annan’s successor

Date posted: July 16, 2006 11:40 PM

Poor misunderstood little guy. It’s hard out there for a despot

Date posted: July 9, 2006 11:48 AM

Under China’s nose, Taiwan has become an island of shrewd capitalists and feisty democrats. PLUS: Insiong Cheng’s Lessons from 1776

Date posted: July 5, 2006 11:50 AM

The dual realities and loyalties of a Chinese-slash-Taiwanese-hyphen-American

Date posted: July 4, 2006 1:21 AM

While Captain Jack Sparrow was sashaying around the Caribbean, Madame Cheng Yisao was redefining piracy on the other side of the world

Date posted: July 3, 2006 4:46 AM

Cheng Yisao shared the high seas with other lady pirates, including Anne Bonny and Mary Read

Date posted: July 3, 2006 3:55 AM

Taiwan’s exiles keep the “Spirit of 1776” alive

Date posted: July 2, 2006 3:22 PM

Asian heads of state hit the road, with pilgrimages the Vatican and Graceland

Date posted: June 26, 2006 9:36 PM

George “Mr. Sulu” Takei takes on new role as gay-rights activist. PLUS, Gays in Space

Date posted: June 19, 2006 2:35 PM

What are the myths and motives behind our China paranoia? And more importantly—is their kung fu better than our kung fu?

Date posted: May 27, 2006 8:08 AM

An independence movement is underway to free the Hawaiian Islands from American "occupation"

Date posted: May 25, 2006 4:39 AM

The U.S. Census Bureau just released the 2006 portrait of the Asian Nation. Exciting?
You bet!

Date posted: May 18, 2006 6:54 AM