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Michelle Yeoh, the first Asian actress to win an Oscar, is excited to introduce her friends, and the world, to a television show based on Chinese myths, “American Born Chinese.” ...

This week’s new entertainment releases include an album from Matchbox Twenty, dinosaurs coming to life in the second season of “Prehistoric Planet” on Apple TV+ and the action-comedy series “American ...

Ukraine’s leader knows he needs to win over nonaligned countries such as Brazil and India to increase the pressure on Russia
Normally G7 summits are about battling for the free world comma by comma, as diplomats parse lengthy communiques of ephemeral significance long into the night. Words, after all, constitute much of a diplomat’s work.
At the Hiroshima G7 some of the communiques emerging from the summit do matter, notably the toolbox on de-risking trade with China, but the true significance of the summit lay in Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s courtesy of a ride in Emmanuel Macron’s French aircraft.

For the Asian American community, "American Born Chinese" is the all-star equivalent of "Ocean's Eleven." The eight-part series, which starts streaming Wednesday on Disney Plus, features Oscar winners ...

The cast and creatives behind the new Disney+ series "American Born Chinese" say it's a "surreal" feeling to have the project released into the world. Ben Wang stars as a teen growing up amid pressure ...

One writer highlights 10 impactful films and TV shows from Asian American creators in honor of Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month.

US efforts to stifle China’s chip industry are thought to be part of a wider plan to hinder Beijing’s preparations for war
Signs of the burgeoning conflict between the US and China can be spotted in many different places, from balloons in the sky to videos on TikTok. But nowhere is it more apparent than on the microscopic wafers of silicon, otherwise known as semiconductors.
, or microchips, are tiny pieces of technology that power everything from microwaves to military weapons. The industry is worth more than $580bn (£466bn), but even that figure belies their importance to the global economy. Their existence powers several trillion dollars’ worth of goods and processes; without them the global economy would shudder to a halt.

There's over 20 different ethnicities represented in the Asian American community and we speak over 40 different languages," said one festival goer. "Hopefully people take this month as a chance to ...

Michelle Yeoh is truly doing everything everywhere all at once these days. Next up is American Born Chinese, which debuts Wednesday, May 24 on Disney+. The adaptation of the hit graphic novel of the ...

This Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, we’re highlighting people whose contributions have often been overlooked. Tonight, we spotlight Dalip Singh Saund, a political trailblazer who ...

British Museum, LondonFrom a colossal painted scroll to a humble handprint, this beautifully curated show of more than 300 exhibits traces the resilience, innovation and decadence of 19th-century China – and the lamentable role of the British
She wears jade earrings and a midnight blue jacket, embroidered in gold to its mandarin collar. She sits very still, staring straight back at you from her watchful closeup. You could pick her out of a crowd, this shrewd woman with the incisive look and stringently combed hair – except that she no longer exists. For this is not now.
Nor is this a photograph, as it might at first seem, skimming a face from life in some Chinese city. In fact this is an ancestral portrait from Guanghzu province, painted in ink on paper at some unknown date in the 19th century. In the past, such images were posthumous, the faces chosen from albums of generic types, accessorised with personal ornaments and displayed in family shrines. But this one is so hyperreal in its exactitude of face, clothes and pose as to be clearly based on a photograph: Chinese art in the age of the camera.

‘Anti-spying’ raids on consulting firms and attacks on tech companies are being driven by party ideology, says academic Chris Marquis
To many western investors, China under president Xi Jinping is a tough nut to crack. While Chinese leaders insist that they welcome foreign investment, the ruling party’s extension of control to companies, with crackdowns on domestic tech giants and more recently the on consulting firms, including America’s blue chip Bain & Company, are puzzling to the outside world.
Chris Marquis, author and professor of Chinese management at the University of Cambridge, believes that part of the explanation lies in the ruling party’s ideology. He says one must “dig into the Maoist roots in Chinese institutions and political economy to try to understand ideas that Xi has”.