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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' ...

A towering fence and a recently installed giant gateway now all but obscure the school where Tim Walz spent a year teaching English on the cusp of China’s economic boom.

Despite the relatively small numbers of Chinese immigrants, rhetoric focused on the effects of a Chinese “invasion” as well as a global narrative of a “yellow peril” that could result in Western ...

Despite the relatively small numbers of Chinese immigrants, rhetoric focused on the effects of a Chinese “invasion” as well as a global narrative of a “yellow peril” that could result in Western ...

Kamala Harris’ vice-presidential pick taught in the country and has a history of supporting human rights in places considered sensitive by Beijing
In November 2016, the Democrats were in disarray. Donald Trump had just been declared the winner of the US presidential election, and congresspeople and staffers alike were panicking about the future of American democracy – and their own jobs. It was a tricky time to organise an event about Hong Kong, a Chinese city that few people in the Capitol had given much thought to .
For a while, it seemed that no one from Congress would turn up to meet Joshua Wong, the who was flying to Washington for a briefing organised by the Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC), a government agency.

The leading mayoral candidates are racing to hire influential activists in the city’s large Chinese community and looking for every opportunity to reach Chinese-speaking voters.

Korean cheerleading Film ‘Victory’ sets North American, Asian theatrical releases following NYAFF opening slot.

The recently established U.S.-China Financial Working Group is set to meet for discussions about financial stability and curbing the flow of fentanyl.