They dropped a dizzying 12% in just 11 minutes after Asian markets opened Sunday evening Eastern U.S. time.

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It was a marked escalation from minor disturbances on Saturday night, apparently sparked by white youths attacking an Asian taxi driver with a hammer the previous evening.

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Cosmo, an Asian-style buffet restaurant, sold the statue in aid of the Derby Evening Telegraph's Give Us a Break appeal.

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The producers of the evening are a music collective called Demal(ph), made up of mostly South Asian Americans.

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