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We all know her story. She was a beautiful, bright 24-year-old graduate student in Yale's pharmacology department who went missing just four days shy of her wedding. Her body was found on what was to be her wedding day hidden behind a wall in her laboratory, a Yale building at 10 Amistad Road in New Haven. A few days later, a 24-year-old animal technician who also worked at her laboratory was arrested for her murder.

I first read about her in The New York Times in my apartment in Manhattan. Across the globe, my brother read about her on Bloomberg News in his office in Hong Kong. We felt the pain and horror of her death and of the tragedy facing her family.

Annie Le was also Asian-American. As her story appeared all over the Internet and on 24-hour news updates, blogs, commentaries, Facebook and Twitter posts, the fact that she was an Asian-American female was to become an important part of her narrative, speaking to uniquely American anxieties about sex, violence, gender and race.

That Minority Thing - Some 93 percent of studio directors were male this year — Nora Ephron with her “Julie & Julia” and a handful of other women notwithstanding. Damien Dante Wayans, with “Dance Flick,” joined Olatunde Osunsanmi of “The Fourth Kind” as black directors with studio releases, while a few directors were Asian or part Asian.

Uniformity would seem to shut out potential viewers and revenue. But there is really no way to be sure whether sales would go up or down if the studio directing pool were more diverse.

In some ways, studio directors are looking even more uniform than in the past. In 1999, a report on diversity from the Directors Guild of America, whose statistics include nonstudio films, found African-American directors to have worked 5.4 percent of total days covered by the guild’s film contract, while women logged 7.4 percent , Asian-Americans 1.5 percent and Latinos 1.1 percent.

NAM - Last year, Frank Chang spent about $1,500 on non-surgical cosmetic procedures. This year, the 35-year-old Chinese American may go a step farther.

“I may be getting a lift for my eyes,” said Chang. “The reason I am not doing it yet is because I am a bit afraid of the pain.”

Chang said if he were happy with the results, he would continue to do more surgical procedures “in a healthy way.”

Chang is one of an increasing number of Asian-American men defying a cultural stigma to engage in cosmetic surgery in order to improve their appearances. Experts say what is motivating men to seek plastic surgery may be the need to raise their chances of surviving a job market that is increasingly favorable of younger workers, and to be competitive in romantic relationships.

Global Times - His eyes fixed again on the photos on the wall: colorful pictures of protests against CNN during last April's Olympic torch relay in the United States. They hang like trophies, souvenirs of a glorious past.

"I still feel passionate," smiled Rao Jin, 24-year-old founder of Anti-CNN. com, "but not as spirited as that time."

Rao's been busy. After a round of meetings with business partners and media-savvy advisors, he's re-branding the whole website: gone is the "combative title" of "Anti-CNN". In its place is "ACCN", short for "Access China Communication Network."

A new slogan "Just another voice" replaces "Don't be like CNN!"

Tsinghua graduate Rao, also the owner of IT company Cesky, said he wants "limited commercialization" and "modernization" of Anti-CNN into a "comprehensive community news website."

An article from Color line  looks in the past incidents involving asian males losing it and going on the rampage.

Looking back at the incident in Binghamton, a NY Vietnamese immigrant, Jiverly Linh Phat Wong or Voong shot 13 people to death before killing himself. Richard Poplawski shot and killed three Pittsburgh, PA police officers and injured two others during a standoff that lasted nearly four hours. Understanding race and gender is crucial given that one of these are anti-Asian discrimination, the other is antisemitism and white supremacy, and both in co-relation to masculinity.

Rampage & Race: Reacting to Anti-Asian Discrimination

People are unaware of the anti-Asian discrimination in the U.S, a recent example such as the tRep. Betty Brown (R-Texas) who said that Asian Americans should consider changing their name to make it “easier for Americans to deal with.” This sort of comment might be offensive enough from an ordinary citizen, but coming from an elected official with legislative power to implement her racist ideas is alarming and indicative of the kind of discrimination that Asian Americans routinely face especially in institutions.

Among women, Asian Americans have some of the highest rates of suicide in the nation. A professor who has been studying suicide since her own sister took her life links it and other mental health problems to "model minority" identity pressures.

Eliza Noh states that "Growing up in predominantly white schools in Texas, where Asian Americans were marginalized as model minorities and undesirable people, my sister dealt with body image problems," Noh said. "She hated looking Asian American."

Her sister underwent cosmetic surgery to have a European bridge put in her nose and eye-widening folds in her upper lids.

Her problems didn't ease with her change in appearance, however.

"She wrote an essay for an English class and got a B on the essay. When she inquired to her professor, he said he didn't give foreign students A's on English papers," said Noh, noting that she and her sister were born in the United States. "This is the kind of racism she would come up against. And that really depressed her."

When her sister took her life, Noh was a sophomore at Columbia University in New York. She decided then she'd dedicate her life to finding out why Asian American women commit suicide.

Jaemin Kim writes on racial inequality of asian women & social trends in the article 'Asian Women: Rape And Hate Crimes'

"Older, White Critics ... Missed the Boat" by making an issue of the interracial relationship in the movie Rachel Getting Married, posted Defamer.com last October. In rare form, the popular blog site -- known for mercilessly ridiculing celebrities and media players -- took a principled stance. The posting chided well-known film critics for focusing on race when reviewing the film. The critics were preoccupied with the fact that white Rachel was marrying a black man. In the film, however, the couple's ethnicities go unmentioned. And this is the way a "cultural melting pot" should be, Defamer rhapsodized.