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Bao Li and Qing Bao will be the first pandas to reside at the Smithsonian zoo in Washington DC since last fall
Two new giant pandas will arrive at the Smithsonian’s National zoo in Washington DC later this year, marking a very welcome return after the zoo’s remaining pandas returned to China last fall.
The Smithsonian announced on Wednesday that the pandas, named Bao Li and Qing Bao, would arrive in the US capital by the end of the year. Both pandas currently reside in China, but Bao Li already has a connection to Washington as his mother Bao Bao was born at the National zoo in 2013.

Every week, seniors at Jin Se Nian Hua Adult Day Care Center in Chinatown learn how to play the erhu to help Asian American seniors feel closer to home.

A Philadelphia musician is using an ancient Chinese instrument to help Asian American seniors connect with their heritage. Madeleine Wright reports.

Administrators at a Virginia school say a "segregation game" that targeted an Asian American 5th grader was "inappropriate" role play following a social studies lesson. WRC's Aimee Cho reports.

A Virginia mom says a group of white students allegedly told her fifth-grade son, who is Asian American, that he had to sit at a "segregated" table at lunch.

The negligible sanction on the Tian Xiang vessel provoked the ire of Peru’s National Society of Artisanal Fishing (Sonapescal), which called the penalty “laughable” and said the fine does not repair ...

In part two of of our series on AAPI mental health. We examines culturally-sensitive responses to supporting Chinese American seniors in San Francisco and Oakland.

LAist Studios’ new podcast “Inheriting” explores Asian American and Pacific Islander families and their histories, where the past is personal. The show came out May 23, and listeners can now listen to ...

May is Asian and Pacific American Heritage Month, a time when Americans celebrate the profound contributions of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders—a group that is commonly abbreviated as AAPI—to U.

We are raiding the Guardian Long Read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors.
This week, from 2021: During the second world war, Chinese merchant seamen helped keep Britain fed, fuelled and safe – and many gave their lives doing so. But from late 1945, hundreds of them who had settled in Liverpool suddenly disappeared. Now their children are piecing together the truth. By Dan Hancox

The Examiner spoke to roughly a dozen Asian American leaders and community advocates across The City’s political spectrum who acknowledged an escalating fracture inside the community — one that ...