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American Airlines and Delta Air Lines will both add more flights to China this fall and winter as geopolitical tensions between the U.S. and China begin ...

Figure fell from 1.15 in 2021 to 1.09, the lowest of any country with a population over 100 million
China’s fertility rate dropped to an estimated record low of 1.09 in 2022, the lowest of any country with a population over 100 million, according to government data.
Demographers from the China Population and Development Research Centre, a Chinese government research institution, released data indicating that last year’s fertility rate fell to 1.09 from 1.15 in 2021, below Japan’s rate for the same time period and only slightly higher than South Korea’s, which was estimated to be 0.8.

Analysis by Human Rights Watch finds the country’s major platforms ‘do not routinely address’ pervasive online racism
Chinese social media is littered with racist videos, particularly content that mocks black people or portrays them through offensive racial stereotypes, research by Human Rights Watch (HRW) has found.
The watchdog analysed hundreds of videos posted on Chinese social media since 2021 and found that major platforms, including Bilibili, Douyin, Kuaishou, Weibo and Xiaohongshu, “do not routinely address racist content”.

Photo by Lanna Apisukh for Thrillist While the notion of dangling off a 50-foot wall would make almost anybody’s palms sweat, for avid rock climbers it’s the closest thing to nirvana. What you’ll hear ...

A trailblazing World War II veteran, renowned for her feats as both a physicist and pilot, is set to be inducted into California's Hall of Fame this month. Asian American luminary: Margaret “Maggie” ...

A trailblazing World War II veteran, renowned for her feats as both a physicist and pilot, is set to be inducted into California's Hall of Fame this month. Asian American luminary: Margaret “Maggie” ...

A man from New Jersey was sentenced to 50 months in prison for his involvement in a series of residential burglaries that targeted Asian and Asian American homeowners. Barr’s sentencing: Vauxhall ...

Two Lehigh Valley men have also been charged as co-conspirators for allegedly being part of the eight-man crew that carried out the spree.

The streaming service is capable of interesting works for children, with this one based on 16th century novel Journey to the West featuring an irritating protagonist
Despite recent budget cuts, Netflix’s in-house animation division continues to produce lively, interesting works that, if released theatrically, might be diverting some of the applause that gets automatically lavished on Disney and Pixar’s currently mediocre output. Not that this is anywhere as rich and strange as the streaming service’s last big title, the Oscar-winning . The latest in a 10,000-mile-long line of adaptations of Journey to the West, the 16th-century Chinese novel attributed to Wu Cheng’en, bounces along energetically, and has some exceptionally fun frills around the edges, such as a flouncy vocal performance from Bowen Yang as spiteful, effete baddie the Dragon King, who gets to sing the film’s best musical number. (Vowing to flood the world as revenge for being mocked for his dry skin condition that can only be treated with an amphibian lifestyle, he sings: “Since then I’ve realised there’s nothing wrong with being moisturised.” Surely this is a metrosexual anthem in the making.)
Sadly, the Dragon King only gets wheeled in sporadically, as the lead protagonist is the considerably less endearing Monkey (Jimmy O Yang). A cocksure braggart who was born from a rock and is afflicted with an acute narcissistic personality disorder, Monkey steals the Dragon King’s all-powerful multi-use Stick – whose voice sounds like a didgeridoo and is a bit like a magical Swiss army knife – which he uses on a quest to obtain immortality. Some of the adventures – peach stealing, meeting the omnipotent Buddha – will be familiar to those who remember the wonderful late-1970s Japanese live-action that the BBC used to screen. (This was the show that really popularised Journey to the West beyond Asia, while also entertaining stoners worldwide who chanced on it while channel-surfing late at night.)
The Monkey King is released on 18 August on Netflix.

Hackers from overseas are targeting government officials, aiming to get inside information from emails and potentially sensitive documents. Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb., said Tuesday that he was the victim ...

James Harden was shocked after his Chinese fans bought 10,000 bottles of his personal brand of wine in just 10 seconds, as fellow NBA superstar Andre Iguadola praised him for a “great move” ...

Suppose the greatest threat posed by China is an economic implosion, What would be the global impact? The answer is probably catastrophic.