Michelle Yeoh has scored a major win for Asian Americans in Hollywood by becoming the first Malaysian-origin woman to win awards at the Golden Globes, Screen Actors Guild and then finally becoming the second woman of color to win Best Actor at the Oscars. In an op-ed titled “The Crisis That Changed My Life 8 Years Ago Keeps Happening” for The New York Times, Yeoh revealed that she wanted to shift all the praise and attention that was being showered on her towards a cause that was deeply close to her heart: the earthquakes in Turkey and Syria. Yeoh opened up about how she saw first-hand the tragedies of the 2015 earthquake in Nepal, where she had been visiting with her partner Jean Todt. Witnessing the ruin and destruction around her had pushed the Asian-American actress to become a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Development Program in order to help with the relief efforts. When devastating earthquakes struck Turkey and Syria in February, mass destruction and havoc follow...