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A trio of Michigan state senators joined with Asian-American and Pacific Islander leaders on Monday in Detroit to toast $1 million in state funding to help fund streetscape improvements and infuse ...

Sam Quah brings real artistry to a story of buried guilt and conspicuous violence, but his neat contrivances tie things up rather too easily
Sam Quah’s Chinese remake of his own Malaysian thriller from 2022 is a film literally dripping in sin. It’s set in 2006 during the clean-up after the tsunami, with the ceiling at the local high school leaking due to the incessant rain. After the pupils punt origami boats out on the college lake, mute loner Tong (Shengdi Wang) is smeared in glue and tortured by the resident girl gang. So if liquid-sloshing Quah hasn’t seen Hideo Nakata’s Dark Water, by the time a mackintosh-sporting psycho is dicing up the bullies it’s clear he must be a fan of I Know What You Did Last Summer.
Tong’s mother, willowy school cleaner Li Han (Ning Chang), is one suspect on the police’s list – though seemingly off the hook when her daughter also goes missing. Quah came out as a Hitchcock admirer in his with its cinephile protagonist; he aims to give this follow-up a similar dexterity. Li Han is revealed to have an abusive past, the police chief is covering for the school principal who is father to one of Tong’s tormentors – and there’s the secret the local philanthropist is harbouring regarding Lin (Wang Chuanjun), a worker at his foundation.

The Rice Rockettes are the “premiere all-Asian drag troupe in San Francisco.” Although the nightlife that fed their rise in popularity stalled after the pandemic, the group has taken ...

The two governments said the moves were a response to growing aggression by China, whose rapid military buildup has many leaders worried.

The Rice Rockettes are the “premiere all-Asian drag troupe in San Francisco.” Although the nightlife that fed their rise in popularity stalled after the pandemic, the group has taken

The new centre, staffed by Australians, will enable sharing of information and help Pacific island governments regulate important undersea cables
Australia is stepping up its attempts to limit China’s influence in the Pacific, with the establishment of a new “cable connectivity and resilience centre” designed to boost connectivity for Pacific nations.
The foreign Minister, Penny Wong, will announce the centre while in Japan for the Quad foreign ministers’ meeting alongside counterparts from the United States, Japan and India.

Hundreds of protesters marched from Foley Square to Cadman Plaza Park on Sunday to back a Brooklyn councilwoman charged with biting an NYPD deputy chief during a protest this month.

Raids at Ohio factory and 27 other locations come as Chinese business delegation visits US ‘to consolidate economic and trade cooperation’.

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Swift response by Renmin University to student’s post creates shockwave in a country where accusers are often ignored or sued
Public allegations of sexual harassment are rare in China. Swift responses to punish the accused are rarer still. So a recent case at one of China’s top universities, in which a student posted a video online accusing her supervisor of sexually harassing her, leading to his sacking, has created shockwaves.
On 21 July, a woman who identified herself as Wang Di posted an hour-long video on Weibo, in which she accused her PhD supervisor at Renmin University in Beijing, Wang Guiyuan, of physically and verbally abusing her for more than two years. The professor, a former Chinese Communist party representative at the university, threatened to block her graduation prospects, Wang Di said.

Chinese athletes say they compete "clean" despite positive drug tests in 2021 that were kept secret. Diplomatic tensions over the case continue to escalate as U.S. officials push for reform.

Some Asian American leaders are rooting for Kamala Harris to become the first Asian American president. But she is not widely known as Asian American, reflecting the complexity of the identity.