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TikTok is again available on app stores in the US after President Donald Trump delayed a ban on the app.

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - A film about the late New York photographer and activist Corky Lee is making its way to Hawaii. Filmmaker Jennifer Takaki and producer Linda Lew Woo say they created ...

Australian defence department says it is monitoring three Chinese ships in the Coral Sea
Australia has rejected Chinese allegations an Australian airforce plane “deliberately intruded into China’s airspace” and undermined its national security, saying the actions of a Chinese navy fighter pilot who released flares near the Australian aircraft were “wrong … and very very dangerous”.
Australia’s defence department accused the Chinese navy of an “unsafe and unprofessional” incident by allegedly dropping flares dangerously close to an Australian patrol flight on what it described as routine operations in the South China Sea on Tuesday.

The US president has repeatedly threatened to tax imports at the same rate those countries impose on US goods
has once again threatened to impose a wave of tariffs on US imports, stepping up his bid to overhaul the global economic order.
On Thursday, the US president said he plans to , ensuring the US imposes the same taxes on its imports from the rest of the world that American goods face in other countries.

‘We’re all spending a lot of money that we could be spending on other things,’ the US president said
said that he wants to restart nuclear arms control talks with Russia and China and that eventually he hopes all three countries could agree to cut their massive defense budgets in half.
Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office on Thursday, Trump lamented the hundreds of billions of dollars being invested in rebuilding the nation’s nuclear deterrent and said he hopes to gain commitments from the US adversaries to cut their own spending.

Yang effortlessly displayed his versatility by playing his violin in a powerful, striking, rhythmic way in conjunction with the string section of the orchestra. He was also able to evoke the sweetest ...

Foreign secretary says ‘we will discuss issues where the UK and China do not always see eye to eye’ as he meets Wang Yi, Beijing’s foreign affairs minister
Keir Starmer has been forced to cut short a visit to a housing development after a protest by farmers, PA Media reports. PA says:
A group of tractor-driving protesters staged a noisy demonstration as Keir Starmer visited a housing development in Buckinghamshire.
The vehicles could be heard sounding musical horns while the prime minister spoke to workers at the site.

The U.S. is deporting unauthorized migrants from Africa and Asia to Panama, a major diplomatic breakthrough for the Trump administration's mass deportation efforts.

States are increasingly banning DeepSeek AI on government devices, citing cybersecurity and data privacy concerns. Some cybersecurity experts question if the state bans will do enough to protect ...

The scholarship provides Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander artists working in film and television with professional development resources and opportunities to connect with peers ...

The Asian American Foundation and the nonprofit Sundance Institute have partnered for a third year of the Sundance Institute and The Asian American Foundation Fellowship and Scholarship.

Canberra says a Chinese fighter jet released flares in front of an Australian surveillance plane.