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EXCLUSIVE: The Asian American Foundation and the Sundance Institute on Thursday unveiled the AAPI filmmakers set for the second edition of their program, the “Sundance Institute | The Asian ...

Religiously unaffiliated: In 2012, 26% of the Asian American population reported being religiously unaffiliated, but this figure has now risen to 32%. A new Pew study released Wednesday revealed that ...

The number who say they are Christian is down from 42% in 2012 when Pew last conducted a large-scale survey of Asian American religious affiliation. Outside of the U.S., within homeland Asian ...

A program that brings Chinese language and culture classes into K-12 schools was the focus of a recent congressional hearing.

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is suing Florida for anti-Asian housing discrimination over SB 264, a law aimed at restricting Chinese nationals from purchasing property in the state. The ...

The religious percentage of religious Asian Americans has declined since 2012, according to a new study. Find out more below about the study and its surprising findings.

The religious percentage of religious Asian Americans has declined since 2012, according to a new study. Find out more below about the study and its surprising findings.

Religiously unaffiliated: In 2012, 26% of the Asian American population reported being religiously unaffiliated, but this figure has now risen to 32%. A new Pew study released Wednesday revealed that ...

The respected Uyghur scholar became a powerful symbol of the devastation of that culture. Her imprisonment cannot go unchallenged
I last saw Rahile Dawut in 2016, at a we’d organised in Hong Kong. We sat in a sunny precinct, drank coffee, and enjoyed a rare moment of calm before the gathering storm. She was detained in 2017, and now we have confirmation, via the US-based rights group, that Dawut has been by China for “splittism”: a deliberate attempt to split the Chinese nation.
When we met in 2016, Dawut was already experiencing trouble. On her journey from Urumqi to Hong Kong, her plane was diverted due to snow, and she and a student checked into a hotel in Chengdu. They were woken in the middle of the night by the local police: the hotel had reported them because their ethnicity was marked as “Uyghur” on their passports, and Uyghurs no longer had the right to travel freely within their own country.
Rachel Harris is professor of ethnomusicology at Soas University of London
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The day after Cheng arrived back in Australia after three years’ detention in China, Penny Wong says she had vowed to ‘do everything I could to bring her home’
The foreign affairs minister, Penny Wong, has revealed she promised the children of the formerly jailed journalist Cheng Lei to “do everything I could to bring her home”.
Speaking a day after after three years in detention in China accused of ill-defined security-related allegations, Wong said the Australian journalist was “in extraordinarily good spirits” and was “pretty tough”.

Several American politicians want the deal scrapped entirely, claiming in an open letter that, by collaborating with Chinese researchers, America was “fuelling its own destruction.” ...

Anisa Khalifa: That’s where a multi-ethnic coalition of student groups formed the Third World Liberation Front and demanded that the school teach the histories of people of color. They called for ...