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Two American athlete groups sent a letter to the top U.S. government anti-doping official calling for a “truly independent” investigation of the case that led to 23 Chinese swimmers not being ...

23 years later, Li is trimming the shaggy tops of a wild fennel plant on a side street in San Francisco. It’s a sunny spring morning, and her shoulder bag is already full with tender bunches of ...

The star of the spy thriller and the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist discuss the strides made — and tensions felt — by Asian American storytellers ...

The cookbook’s title grabbed me: “A Very Chinese Cookbook: 100 Recipes from China and Not China (But Still Really Chinese)” (America’s Test Kitchen). With a dose of culinary humor, the moniker ...

The cookbook’s title grabbed me: “A Very Chinese Cookbook: 100 Recipes from China and Not China (But Still Really Chinese)” (America’s Test Kitchen). With a dose of culinary humor, the moniker ...

Deal to use mapping data from web search giant Baidu is a big step towards launching driver assistance tech in world’s biggest car market
Elon Musk’s visit to China has reportedly reaped immediate rewards with a deal for Tesla to use mapping data provided by web search company Baidu, a big step in introducing driver assistance technology in the world’s largest car market.
Musk made an over the weekend. The billionaire posted a picture of his meeting with the Chinese premier, Li Qiang, on X, the social network he took over in 2022.

The month of May is Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) Heritage Month and the 26th Annual Asian American Celebration kicks off at the Greater Richmond Convention Center this ...

At least 33 people were left injured and factories damaged after a tornado in the capital of Guangdong province
At least five people were killed and 33 injured after a tornado struck the Chinese city of Guangzhou over the weekend, state media reported, in the latest bout of extreme weather to hit the country’s industrial heartland.
China’s official Xinhua news agency said that the tornado hit the Guangdong province capital, in the country’s south on Saturday. About 140 factories were damaged, but there were no reports of collapsed houses.

With tourists struggling to access the two primary digital payment apps, Alipay and WeChat pay, Beijing has put measures in place to make cash payments easier
For 18 years, Liu Yau-li has been bringing tourists to China. In that time she’s seen the full evolution of China’s digital payment system. Twenty years ago, she says, everyone used cash. But today it’s not unusual to find places that can’t or at all, particularly after the pandemic when much of the world grew wary of handling shared items.
If visitors want to enjoy convenient travel, she says, they’re better off downloading one of the major payment apps and hoping it works for them.

Tim Loughton had sanctions imposed on him in 2021 by Beijing, which has close ties to east African country
A former government minister who has had sanctions imposed on him by China has said he was detained and deported by Djibouti as a “direct consequence” of the east African country’s close ties with Beijing.
Tim Loughton, the Conservative MP for East Worthing and Shoreham since 1997, said he was held for more than seven hours at the airport earlier this month, barred entry to Djibouti, and told he was being removed on the next available flight.

Chinese food is one of the most popular varieties of dine-in and takeout cuisine in Cambridge and beyond. But this was not always the case.

You can’t even buy a Chinese -brand car in America right now, but already the threat posed by Asian automakers is causing a headache for U.S. firms. And American buyers’ awareness of China’s EVs ...