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Nine countries from South America and Asia signed a joint declaration this week o prevent the extinction of the remaining river dolphins.

The beloved, long-running Portland Night Market is back again—with a twist. The massive industrial space full of food vendors and local makers’ wares is teaming up with local organization Asian ...

German company points to ‘intense price competition’, which it sees as unsustainable
Mercedes-Benz has said the electric car market is “brutal” for carmakers as heavy competition forces them to cut prices.
Sales of electric cars are soaring in Europe and China, with the US further behind, but the rush of new launches is putting pressure on European manufacturers in particular, who are struggling to compete with cheap models coming from China.

is reportedly an aide in lecturer Harvey Dong’s course entitled “Asian American Communities and Race Relations,” according to the J. The Jewish News of Northern California. Story continues ...

Tense documentary follows the perilous ‘underground railroads’ defectors need to take to escape from the totalitarian state
The toxic anti-Shangri-La of North Korea continues to provide a rich seam of material for film-makers: the late Claude Lanzmann recounted his personal experiences there in the 1950s in and Werner Herzog discussed the North Korean reverence for Mount Paektu in . There are many more, including Álvaro Longaria’s , Ross Adam and Robert Cannan’s , Morten Traavik’s and Ryan White’s . So far no documentary film-maker to my knowledge has tackled one of North Korea’s strangest events: , the man who’d threatened him with “fire and fury”. Oddly, this otherwise excellent documentary about North Korea doesn’t mention that, despite it coming within its timeline.
Beyond Utopia is a nail-bitingly tense account of the network of safe houses and “underground railroads” used by North Korean defectors to get to freedom, run by the South Korean human rights activist and Christian cleric Pastor Kim Sung-eun. (There is real escape footage here.) Despite the well-attested ideological iron grip exerted in North Korea (no one in this film uses the pro-regime term DPRK or Democratic People’s Republic of Korea), there are in fact traffickers and brokers both there and in China who for a price are prepared to get people out.

Chinese and Japanese fried rice look look quite similar to one another, but the taste and texture can be quite different. Here are all of the differences.

Military spending is up and global conflict is looming. Intellectuals, scientists and the public must speak out for the future of the planet
In the autumn of 1914 a frantic race to build weapons and decouple economies was under way among the countries of Europe. As the war cry on both sides intensified, a young Albert Einstein, together with the astronomer Wilhelm Foerster, physiologist Georg Friedrich Nicolai and philosopher Otto Buek, signed a , inviting scholars and artists, “those of whom one should expect such convictions”, to speak against the escalation, think in terms of a common culture, transcend nationalist passions and call for a “union of Europeans” to prevent Europe from perishing in a “fratricidal war”. Few listened. Europe sank into the catastrophes of the two world wars, which led to the end of its pre-eminence.
We are in a similar situation now. This time it is the entire planet at stake, hanging between prosperity and catastrophe. The world has changed since 1914: western economic and cultural dominance is fading. A rapid and welcome global development is redistributing power. The major challenges are global. Opportunities are global as well, opened up by technological developments that have generated widespread prosperity and taken hundreds of millions out of misery.
Carlo Rovelli is an Italian physicist and writer. His latest book, White Holes, Inside the Horizon, is out this month
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The prime minister and Joe Biden’s policy discussions have been driven by questions of dominance in cybersecurity, the net zero transition and the Pacific
Anthony Albanese is in the final stages of an official visit to Washington. He wanted to engage the president of the United States, Joe Biden, on a range of policy fronts during the four-day trip. Here are the key takeaways from the visit.

The Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival will unspool Nov. 2-12 in area venues, with numerous LGBTQ+ films for audience consumption.

Jon Stewart must have known what he was getting into with Apple TV+ when he began to pursue a 'The Problem' episode critical of China.