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Property developer denies claims founder and chair have left country amid reports it missed key deadline
The crisis in China’s property sector deepened as Country Garden, the country’s biggest developer by sales, reportedly missed its final deadline for an interest payment on a dollar bond, putting it at risk of default.
The company, which has about and nearly $11bn in dollar-denominated offshore bonds, was due to make a $15.4m coupon repayment this week, but failed to do so, according to reports. Its share price fell 4% in Hong Kong on Thursday, and is down 74% since the beginning of the year.

Carolyn Chin is a Chinese American metro Detroit native and a communications, marketing, and development professional. The Detroit Historical Museum will host the exhibit Detroit’s Chinatown now ...

In this piece, reporter Carolyn Chin adds her voice to a growing conversation about the history and preservation of Detroit’s former Chinatown neighborhood. Erasure comes in many forms. On July 18, ...

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The recent vandalism of the Pan-Asian Community Room highlights the urgency behind more campus resources for the community.

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No move on paying super to people on paid parental leave
But so far, the government has not moved on paying superannuation to parents (mostly women) on paid parental leave.
Super, of course, is really important and it’s something we would very much like to look to in the future when the budget can afford it. But this is a very big step forward, the current arrangements, but we’ll continue to look around superannuation into the future and consider it in each budget context.
I think with the reserved period as well, we’re going to see an increase in shared care, both parents taking some time out, which is really, really important if we want to get a more equal burden of, you know, of that share of care.
So that is really important as well.

The U.S. Department of Defense has released a series of declassified photos and videos featuring dangerous aerial encounters between American and Chinese pilots. As the Pentagon points out, they ...

Asian American artists are becoming more visible, due in part to the growth of the Asian American population in the state, as well as increasing national attention to anti-Asian violence and social ...