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The Netflix series showcases one of the country’s most successful works of culture, a rare cultural export. Instead, social media is condemning it.

Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month is observed from May 1-31. This month is dedicated to honoring and celebrating the many contributions and accomplishments of Asian Americans and ...

Several ASUC senatorial candidates are running for a subcommunity within the larger Asian community on campus, but these two candidates are explicitly running to support Asian American student organiz ...

Environmental and animal welfare groups call on lender to phase out support for ‘industrial’ livestock operations
The private sector arm of the is facing claims that it contributes to global heating and the undermining of animal welfare by providing financial support for factory farming, including the building of pig farming tower blocks in China.
A coalition of environmental and animal welfare groups is calling on the World Bank to phase out financial support for large-scale “industrial” livestock operations. More than $1.6bn was provided for industrial farming projects between 2017 and 2023, according to an analysis by campaigners.

As the organisation’s anniversary nears, borders around the world are closing again
When trade ministers gathered in the Moroccan city of Marrakech 30 years ago this month to sign the agreement creating the World Trade Organization (WTO), the mood was celebratory. The Berlin Wall had come down only recently, communism had collapsed, and there was optimistic talk of how the body would prise open new markets and act as the arbiter when disputes broke out between countries.
The atmosphere today is much darker than it was in April 1994. Any enthusiasm for groundbreaking trade liberalisation deals disappeared decades ago and has been replaced by covert – and often overt – protectionism.

Brexiters’ Asia hopes have foundered amid economic woes and hardline nationalism; it’s time to look at markets in our own backyard
The world has changed since, post-Brexit, “Global Britain” set itself to “pivot” from sclerotic Europe towards booming Asia. Always a fanciful idea that disregarded Asian realities, it has now become farcical. Neither China nor India are proving the easy pickings on which “buccaneering” Britain could ride to economic success, denied through being tied to the “corpse” of an EU economy allegedly shackled by regulation and tax. Brexiter ambitions are turning to ashes.
Instead, there is China, run by an ever more openly dictatorial and militarily ambitious communist government. Its economy is plagued by politically inspired production targets: everything from building flats to EV batteries outstripping any likely demand. There is growing youth unemployment and a once fevered, now overblown, property market retrenching to such an extent it threatens the viability of the vastly over-extended banking system.

Almost a month ago, 73-year-old Xinmin Liang was attacked unprovoked while trying to fish on the Eastbank Esplanade.

Almost a month ago, 73-year-old Xinmin Liang was attacked unprovoked while trying to fish on the Eastbank Esplanade.

Community leaders including Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt met with 18 organizations from the Asian American community on Saturday to discuss s ...

U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said that upcoming U.S.-China talks will tackle a top Biden administration complaint that Beijing’s trade practices put American companies and workers at ...

While the US flounders in a conflict it did not foresee, emerging powers see a chance for new voices to join the top table
Not long ago a picture circulated from inside Gaza showing smoke billowing from the explosion of a US-supplied bomb, and discernible in the background was the outline of eight black parachutes dropping US aid in precisely the same neighbourhood. It was suggested that the picture would make an ideal cover for any book about the confused world disorder that the six-month war in Gaza have spawned – a disorder that as yet has no dominant player, value system or functioning institutions.
The great powers compete, coexist or confront one another across the region but none, least of all at the UN, is able to impose its version of order any longer. “Forget talk of unipolarity or multipolarity,” the journalist Gregg Carlstrom recently wrote in Foreign Affairs. “The Middle East is nonpolar. No one is in charge.”

U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said that upcoming U.S.-China talks will tackle a top Biden administration complaint that Beijing’s trade practices put American companies and workers at ...