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Asian American women deal with being seen as overly compliant, as “tiger moms” and as hypersexualized in the workplace.

Dancers in red, yellow and blue skirts spin across the plastic-floored rehearsal room on a Saturday afternoon in July. Their instructor stands still in the corner while conducting the dancers ...

But banh mi is now so ubiquitous that last week it was added to Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary alongside 370 other words. “Omakase,” the Japanese concept of chef’s choice dining, and “maitake,” a ...

While it does not explicitly mention Xinjiang, the western Chinese region where Uyghurs are believed to be pressed to work in camps, the proposal is widely seen as being aimed at Beijing.

Disney+ Michelle Yeoh in a scene from the upcoming show "American Born Chinese." Michelle Yeoh has been busy acting in a slew of upcoming projects and accepting awards celebrating her long career.

Grief and pain go to the bone in the Chinese director’s simple, beautifully shot tale about an escaped prisoner and an orphan
In 2019, this film from Chinese director Zhang Yimou because of, ahem, technical problems. The real reason, , was likely to have been politically motivated: the Chinese Communist party’s displeasure with the film’s portrait of the Cultural Revolution. Now, re-edited and partially reshot, it’s finally getting a release. And with all the tinkering and tweaks, what censors haven’t been able to expunge is the torment and suffering on the face of Zhang Yi’s political prisoner; this is a deeply felt film, grief and pain go to the bone.
Zhang Yimou has described One Second as a “love letter to cinema” and his story revolves around a mobile cinema touring Chinese villages in the early 1970s. Zhang Yi is an unnamed prisoner who has escaped from a labour camp after being told his teenage daughter appears in a newsreel being shown at the start of the film – he hasn’t seen her in years. But when he arrives in town, the prisoner is too late for the show. Setting off on foot for the next village, he spots a scruffy kid stealing a metal canister of celluloid film from the projectionist’s motorbike: this is Liu, an orphan, played by Liu Haocun with bird’s nest hair and ragged clothes, an urchin straight out of Dickens.

Ukraine setback weakens Russian position as leaders prepare to jostle for regional influence in Uzbekistan
Major setbacks for Moscow’s forces in Ukraine will further test the “limitless partnership” between China and Russia when their leaders meet this week for the first time since the invasion, analysts have said.
The meeting of Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin, scheduled for Thursday at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, is likely to involve jostling for influence in central Asia, where the two global powers have long waged a “quiet rivalry”.

Gan Yao carries a photo of the family of four shot to death at their home in Cypress during a vigil for them Saturday, Feb. 8, 2014, in Houston. A vigil was organized by the Houston Chinese Alliance ...

Plus a kangaroo killed a man in Australia and “Squid Game” made history at the Emmy Awards.

At least 22 Asian American candidates are running for county, state and federal offices in the November election and the city elections next year.

A man accused of slaughtering a Chinese American family in their north Harris County home in 2014 has finally been arrested, bringing some closure to friends and law enforcement officers who have been ...

A New York court has junked a lawsuit accusing city officials of discriminating against Asian American students during the 2018 selective high school admissions process in the city. According to the ...