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Climate change, living costs and China ties in focus as president Taneti Maamau seeks to extend his tenure in the Pacific country
Polls opened in the Pacific country of Kiribati on Wednesday, after an election campaign dominated by the cost of living, rising sea levels and questions about the benefit of deeper ties with China.
A nation of 115,000 residents, Kiribati is considered strategic despite being small, because it is relatively close to Hawaii and controls more than 3.5 million sq km (1.4m sq miles) of Pacific Ocean.

And you wish there was more creativity involved,” said Howard Chen, an ESPN producer who played an integral role in pulling off a surprise for two longtime friends last week at the Asian American ...

Asian Americans are not an enormous group. They made up 4 percent of the national electorate in 2020. Latino voters, by contrast, make up about 15 percent of the electorate. Black voters, who are ...

San Francisco Mayor London Breed has gone from being a verbal punching bag because of her inability to steer the city out of its pandemic downturn to a tough-on-crime candidate who is finally ...

China has been hit with two major crises as their financial and real estate sectors collapse simultaneously. Explore more details here.

The pandemic has compounded the already wide wealth gap among Asian Americans and given rise to long-simmering anti-Asian sentiment. Asian American–owned businesses are vandalized, and our elders are ...

The Abington Township Police Department reported two recent burglaries targeting Asian American business owners in Meadowbrook and Huntingdon Valley in Pennsylvania. Authorities in Montgomery County ...

The Abington Township Police Department reported two recent burglaries targeting Asian American business owners in Meadowbrook and Huntingdon Valley in Pennsylvania. Authorities in Montgomery County ...

An ambitious police detective attempts to solve a series of murders from a disused cinema in director Wei Shujun’s crime drama
Wei Shujun’s new film, adapted from a novella by Yu Hua, is a deadpan existential riddle presenting as noir crime, set in provincial China and taking its cue from Albert Camus’s Caligula: “There’s no understanding fate, therefore I choose to play the part of fate …” It’s a movie that wryly questions the thriller genre’s assumptions about the essential knowability of motive and agency; the idea that people commit crimes for clear reasons and their means and opportunity are governed by the equally explicable conditions of the physical world. But in this drama, chaos and meaninglessness keep peeping through – I can imagine David Lynch directing an alternative version. (There is also the plot-muddle tradition of classic Hollywood noir that sometimes uses China as a somewhat racist trope for exotically opaque murkiness, as in The Lady from Shanghai or Chinatown.)
Zhu Yilong plays Captain Ma, a smart and ambitious young officer brought in to solve the murder of a woman whose corpse has been found by a riverbank, and his superiors set up an incident centre in – of all the postmodern places – a disused cinema. Interrogations take place in the projection room, as two more people are killed and a secondary suspect takes his own life. Overworked Capt Ma falls asleep at one stage and his dreams about the crimes are projected on to the screen; later events may or may not be more cinematic dreams or hallucinations.

The two countries have held joint exercises near Alaska, Taiwan and Japan in defiance of the United States and its alliances.

This award honors a local or community news outlet for outstanding continuing coverage of AAPI topics, issues, and subjects. Non-English-language media and English-language outlets were all eligible ...

About 30 educators from Austin ISD, Killeen ISD and beyond, participated in an inaugural Asian American Academy over the summer. They heard directly from Round Rock ISD students who took Texas' ...