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President Biden is to sign an executive order on Wednesday to strengthen cybersecurity of US ports, with a focus on Chinese-manufactured shipping cranes.

India found itself embroiled in a unique espionage situation after catching a pigeon suspected of being a Chinese spy.

The Australian writer was found guilty on espionage charges in February after spending five years in prison
Australian writer Yang Hengjun will not appeal against the suspended death sentence imposed by a Chinese court, with his family saying further legal challenges would be detrimental to his welfare.
Yang was found guilty on espionage charges in China in February after spending five years in prison.

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The administration announced on Wednesday that President Joe Biden will sign an executive order to revamp maritime security, citing potential risks over Chinese-owned cranes now in use at American ...

The Supreme Court passed on reviewing a challenge against admissions practices at an elite public high school in Northern Virginia Tuesday, drawing an impassioned dissent from Justice Thomas Alito.

A new analysis by the National Association of Realtors (NAR) revealed an increase in homeownership rates among minorities in the U.S. over the past year, with Asian Americans leading the homeownership ...

The United States and Somalia on Feb. 15 signed a memorandum of understanding that would commit the U.S. to build five bases for Somalia’s Danab Brigade at a projected cost of $100 million. That ...

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday denied a petition by a group of mostly Asian American parents to review a case about whether an elite Virginia high school's admissions policy ...

The U S Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal challenging an elite Virginia high school s admissions policy that opponents believe discriminates against Asian American applicants ...

A golden era of Chinese cinema was brought to a halt by Xi Jinping’s regime, but now, thousands of miles away, a rich world of banned documentaries and dramas is being studied and celebrated
On the wall of an unassuming second- floor room in Newcastle University sits a map, Blu-Tacked, unframed. At first glance it looks like any other map of China. But on closer inspection, the cities labelled on the map are not just the major urban centres. They are the places that have hosted important film festivals over the years, the details of which are annotated in colour-coded text.
Covering the final years of the so-called golden era of the scene, shows dozens of film festivals that used to be active across China. There was the China Independent Film Festival (Ciff) in Nanjing, the Beijing Independent Film Festival (Biff), and the Yunnan Multiculture Visual Festival (Yunfest), among others. In 2024, China’s film community is a shadow of its former self. All these festivals – and more than a dozen others – have been forced to close in the years after Xi Jinping, China’s ultra-repressive leader, took office in 2012.

It is an adaptation of the 1958 Rodgers and Hammerstein Broadway musical of the same name, which was based on the 1957 novel by Chinese American author Chin Yang Lee. The film stars Nancy Kwan, James ...