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The upcoming Asian American feature film “Chopin,” starring Eddie Liu (“Kung Fu,” Never Have I Ever, “Silicon Valley”) and Violett Beane (“God Friended Me,” “The Flash”), officially wrapped a 25-day ...

A couple visit an island to celebrate their one-year wedding anniversary. The wife’s disappearance sparks a dizzying display of double takes and plot pivots
This mystery drama twist-a-thon from China was a huge hit on home turf recently (far outperforming the latest Indiana Jones feature) and has been picked up for distribution in the UK and the US. Although the 180-degree plot pivots start to get a little ridiculous by the end, the script (credited to writer-producer Chen Sicheng, Shuyi Gu and Yixiong Yin) zips along with such gleeful mischievousness that the ride is too fun to resist. Intriguingly, it is supposedly based on a 1990 Russian film called A Trap for Lonely Man, which was itself an adaptation of a stage play by French writer Robert Thomas for which . You can see traces of what Hitch might have liked about it, because it’s all about dopplegangers, femmes fatale and paranoia spoiling what should have been a nice holiday abroad.
The unlucky holidaymakers in this instance are Chinese couple He Fei (Yilong Zhu, in an outstandingly good performance) and his wife Li Muzi, who come to Belandia, a fictional south-east Asian island-nation, to celebrate their one-year wedding anniversary. However, Li Muzi goes missing just days after they arrived. With his tourist visa about to run out, He Fei is first met frantically trying to convince the local police to look for her, but with little success.

Gal Luft, director of a Washington-based organization is accused of recruiting and paying a former adviser to Donald Trump
The head of a US thinktank has been charged with acting as an unregistered agent of China, as well as seeking to broker the sale of weapons and Iranian oil, federal prosecutors in Manhattan said.
Gal Luft, a citizen of the United States and Israel, is accused of recruiting and paying a former high-ranking US government official on behalf of principals based in China in 2016, without registering as a foreign agent as required by law.

Solomons’ prime minister, Manasseh Sogavare, meets with leaders as part of week-long visit to China
China and Solomon Islands have signed a deal on police cooperation as part of an upgrade of their relations to a “comprehensive strategic partnership”, four years after the Pacific country switched ties from Taiwan to Beijing.
The police cooperation pact was among nine deals signed as the prime minister of Solomon Islands, Manasseh Sogavare, met with the Chinese premier, Li Qiang, in Beijing, underlining the Solomons’ foreign policy shift.

President Biden hopes the diplomatic trips this summer by his aides lead to frank talks with Xi Jinping and other Chinese officials before the 2024 U.S. elections.

Sunday daytime delivers more films at the Eaton Workshop before the festival wraps with closing night film “The Accidental Getaway Driver” at the AFI Silver Theatre in Silver Spring, Maryland, with ...

Unfair and Dysfunctional Xie Xiaoliang is one of Harvard’s premier scientists, a biophysical chemist known for his work on DNA. He’s leaving Harvard to ...

At least two people have died and six more have been injured after a fire ripped through a building on Monday.
Footage shared on social media showed people trying to escape as flames took over the surrounding buildings and plumes of smoke rose in the air.
Local media reports said the fire took place in Xijiang Qianhu Miao village in Leishan county.
Emergency responders said the fire broke out at about 9.50am and was put out 30 minutes later. The cause is under investigation.

Chinese-American singer Coco Lee battled breast cancer before her death early this month. South China Morning Post reported that her sister Nancy made the revelation, adding that Lee had her tumor ...

Several new voting laws in mostly Republican-led states like Florida impose criminal penalties or fines for helping people register to vote, which particularly affect Asian American and Asian ...

Beijing is source of ‘systemic challenges’ but alliance members are divided on how to engage
Nato leaders and their allies are heading to Vilnius, Lithuania, this week, for two days of meetings starting on Tuesday. Among them is Yoon Suk Yeol, South Korea’s president, who will give one of the opening speeches.
The summit will be dominated by discussions about the alliance’s relationship with Ukraine. But Yoon’s attendance reflects a growing interest among members in stepping up their dialogue with countries in the Asia-Pacific.

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