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Like a lot of people, Ellen Lo Hoffman was shocked and disturbed by the shooting death of Michael Brown, a Black teenager, at the hands of a Ferguson, Mo., police officer a decade ago this month.

Census Bureau Director Robert Santos met with Minnesota community members last month, and said his office would not change how it classified several ethnic groups.

Craze for the four-player game known as guandan may lead to the formation of cliques, Communist party warns
As recently as last year, Chinese state media was hailing guandan as the card game that “can get you a promotion in China”.
The country was holding open tournaments, and workers were encouraged to use it as a social and professional networking tool.

Manila alleges ‘harassment’ in past week, including deploying flares just 15 metres away from its aircraft in latest confrontation on strategic waterway
The Philippine government accused China on Saturday of firing flares just metres away from one of its aircraft as it flew patrols over the South China Sea in the past week.
A Chinese fighter jet “engaged in irresponsible and dangerous manoeuvres” on 19 August as the plane from the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) made a “maritime domain awareness flight” near Scarborough Shoal, the National Task Force for the West Philippine Sea said.

Anti-Asian hate incidents continue to be an issue in the US. TAAF recently released its 2024 Social Tracking of Asian Americans in the US, or STAATUS, Index, an annual survey of people's attitudes ...

A final meeting between President Biden and China’s leader, Xi Jinping, is also likely to come up.

Disclosure comes as campaigners call on UK to oppose company’s planned listing on London Stock Exchange
The online fashion seller Shein has admitted it found two cases of child labour and factories failing to pay the minimum wage in its supply chain last year, as it tries to gain backing for a potential £50bn UK stock market flotation.
The disclosure, in , comes after workers’ rights campaigners called for the government to over concerns about a lack of transparency about its supply chain and ethical questions. The British Fashion Council (BFC) has also said the listing, which could be announced as early as next month, would be a “significant concern” to the industry.

Site development work began in August on a parcel off Ridgetop Boulevard where permits are filed for a Panda Express.

The move signaled that Nepal’s new prime minister, who has cultivated ties with China, would continue on that path.

This month, some in the Asian and Pacific Islander community are looking back on 2014 as a seminal time of change.

Behind two of the best-dressed women at the Democratic National Convention this week, Michelle Obama and Ella Emhoff, were two Asian Americans designers making their mark on the political scene.

Behind two of the best-dressed women at the Democratic National Convention this week, Michelle Obama and Ella Emhoff, were two Asian Americans designers making their mark on the political scene.