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The city of Meizhou reported a “once-in-a-century” flood, with at least 38 people dying in one county alone.

Bailey Anne Kennedy was crowned the new Miss Maryland USA in June, becoming not only the first transgender woman to win the title but also the first Asian American to achieve the coveted honor. With ...

Clearance for fast-fashion chain from FCA and CSRC could take around three months as Labour support emerges
Shein confidentially filed papers with Britain’s markets regulator in early June, according to two sources, kicking off the process for a potential London listing by the online fast-fashion retailer later in the year.
The China-founded company, which was valued at $66bn in a fundraising round last year, began to explore a listing on the London Stock Exchange early this year, Reuters , citing sources. Shein’s original plan to list in New York came unstuck after opposition from US lawmakers.

WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, UNITED STATES, June 24, 2024 /EINPresswire / -- The highly anticipated 2024 Fourth Chinese American convention is just three days away, running from June 27 to June ...

The U.S. should welcome more students from China, but to study the humanities rather than sciences, the second-ranked U.S. diplomat said on Monday, noting that U.S. universities are limiting Chinese ...

The U.S. should welcome more students from China, but to study the humanities rather than sciences, the second-ranked U.S. diplomat said on Monday, noting that U.S. universities are limiting Chinese ...

The Treasury Department offers more detail on a prohibition on the use of U.S. funds help develop tech with possible military applications in "countries of concern." ...

The Austin Asian American Film Festival (AAAFF) is back, and it’s bigger and better than ever! From June 26 to 30, the AAAFF will light up the AFS Cinema (located at 6259 Middle Fiskville Rd, Austin, ...

Heavy rainfall in Guangdong causes flooding, landslides and mudslides, while northern China gripped by heatwave
Guangdong province in southern China has once more experienced severe flooding, two months after the late April floods and landslides led to more than 50 deaths.
On Sunday 16 June, heavy rainfall affected the area, with an average of 199mm falling in Pingyuan county. The town of Sishui experienced the highest rainfall totals of 367mm, with three others in the area recording more than 300mm.

Freddie Mac found that over the past 20 years, the homeownership gap between the AANHPI population and whites closed by 6 percentage points.

GeoGPT developed as part of Chinese-funded earth sciences programme aimed at researchers in global south
Geologists have raised concerns about potential Chinese censorship and bias in a chatbot being developed with the backing of the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS), one of the world’s largest scientific organisations and a Unesco partner.
The GeoGPT chatbot is aimed at geoscientists and researchers, particularly in the global south, to help them develop their understanding of earth sciences by drawing on swaths of data and research on billions of years of the planet’s history.

My poems were written in anger after Tiananmen Square. But what motivates most prison writing is a fear of forgetting. Today I am free, but the regime has never stopped its war on words. By Liao Yiwu