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He spent 25 years in prison for campaigning for Taiwan’s independence and democratization. After his release, he led protests to oust one its presidents.

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I think this project will bring Chinatown inspiration,” said Wellington Chen, executive director of the Chinatown Business Improvement District, who predicted the project would better link the ...

Biggest reduction since December 2021 will allow 1tn more yuan to be released in form of new loans
China’s central bank has announced a surprise cut to the amount of cash that banks must hold in reserve, hoping to boost the lending available to households and businesses as policymakers try to steer the economy through a fragile recovery.
Pan Gongsheng, the governor of the People’s Bank of China (PBOC), said on Wednesday that the reserve requirement ratio would be cut by 0.5% from 5 February, the deepest cut to the rate since December 2021. The move will allow about 1tn yuan (£110.8bn) to be released in the form of new loans.

Concerns raised about interference or censorship after documents showed writers were barred despite receiving enough nominations
A prestigious literary award for science fiction, which was hosted in China for the first time, has come under fire for excluding several authors from the 2023 awards, raising concerns about interference or censorship in the awards process.
The New York Times bestseller , an episode of the Netflix drama The Sandman and the author Xiran Jay Zhao were among the works and authors excluded from the 2023 Hugo awards, which were administered by the World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon) in Chengdu in October.

Chinese gaming stocks soared after news that the country's video game regulator had seemingly scrapped proposed rules aimed at curbing "obsessive" gaming. Proposals cause slump: In Dec. 2023, China's ...

Melissa Dalton, President Biden's nominee for Air Force Undersecretary, was grilled on the border and the Chinese spy balloon before the Senate Armed Services Committee.

thinking that by doing so everyone would view me as a legitimate American. But it didn’t matter if I could speak English without an accent as I looked like a foreigner and was viewed as one. My ...

“These data really confirm what those who’ve been paying attention to Asian American political and public opinion have known for some time,” said Janelle Wong, senior researcher at data and civic ...

An exhibition at Eric Firestone Gallery spanning the late 1980s to present day delves into their multidisciplinary output.