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The Spanish tennis star Paula Badosa has apologised after she was accused of racism over a photo that appeared to show her pulling her eyes back with chopsticks while in China for a series of tournaments.
Following her defeat on Saturday in the semi-finals of the China Open, Badosa’s coach, Pol Toledo, posted the photo on his Instagram, tagging the official China Open account. Comments soon began pouring in, .

In swing states like Georgia, growing numbers of South Asians could make a difference this election. So how do they feel about the woman some call "Lotus POTUS?" ...

Researchers in China say their suture can speed up wound healing and reduce risk of infection by producing a charge
The humble stitch plays a crucial role in surgery, holding a gash together while tissues repair. Now scientists have created a type of suture they say can help speed up wound healing and reduce the risk of infection.
Researchers in China have created a suture that when put under strain – as occurs during movement – electrically stimulates the wound.

Winnie Greco, the city’s director of Asian Affairs, resigned Monday after more than a decade working closely with Adams as a liaison between him, in his different capacities, and the Asian American ...

Winnie Greco, the city’s director of Asian Affairs, resigned Monday after more than a decade working closely with Adams as a liaison between him, in his different capacities, and the Asian American ...

Los Angeles-based Cedars-Sinai is participating in the National Cancer Institute's first long-term national study of cancer among Asian Americans. Led by the University of California San Francisco, ...

Four Chinese American scholars were honored recently in Washington by a civil rights group for their bravery in successfully fighting to prove their innocence after being targeted by accusations of ...

It’s almost painful to watch this oppressive autobiographical film, pieced together from footage the director shot in her family’s Chinese home
Chinese film-maker Wenqian Zhang makes her feature debut with this amazingly intimate, emotionally painful and personal film about her dysfunctional family; completed in 2022, it is only now getting its UK debut. Since then, she has completed Remains of the Hot Day, a short film () that is clearly based on the same real-life family pressures we see building up so unbearably here.
This documentary has enough characterisation and backstory for an entire 21-episode soap opera. Zhang has just returned home from study in the US and records the oppressive atmosphere at length from various fixed positions; she has set up cameras in the family home, a big apartment with small bedrooms in which people incubate their sadness and frustration.

"I didn’t really take it seriously." A new study from MedStar Health shows the majority of women aren’t getting their annual mammograms. And according to the American Cancer Society, breast cancer ...

The government is again trying to insert itself into women’s childbearing decisions, knocking on doors and making calls with questions some find downright invasive.