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Zibo has become a social media star for its distinctive barbecue style. Now the city is overrun with visitors.

Action by workers has trebled this year as the country emerges from its draconian coronavirus measures
Protests in China are often small- scale. On 17 May, a handful of workers at an air-purifier factory in Xiamen, a coastal city in Fujian province, south-east China, gathered to demand the payment of wages that, they said, were in arrears. The protest was quiet, but it was one of nearly 30 similar demonstrations this month alone.
With China’s factories reopened and draconian coronavirus measures abandoned, workers are also going on strike at a remarkable rate.

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Simon Birmingham says ‘clarity should be there before the prime minister entertains a formal state visit to Beijing’

The shadow minister for foreign affairs, Simon Birmingham, says Anthony Albanese should not visit Beijing until all trade sanctions have been lifted.
Birmingham, a former trade minister in the Coalition government, said Australia “deserves to have absolute clarity that these sanctions are going to be lifted and that clarity should be there before the prime minister entertains a formal state visit to Beijing”.

May is National Asian American and Pacific Islanders Heritage Month. Kansas City got in on the celebration of AAPI culture Saturday at the AAPIconic Festival at Columbus Square Park. Here are photos ...

May is National Asian American and Pacific Islanders Heritage Month. Kansas City got in on the celebration of AAPI culture Saturday at the AAPIconic Festival at Columbus Square Park. Here are photos ...

Brandon Tsay, the man who disarmed the mass shooter who killed 11 people and injured 9 others in Monterey Park, hosted a dance Saturday in honor of Asian American Heritage Month.

Beijing clearly target of joint statement by Quad group calling for ‘stability in Indo-Pacific maritime domain’
The leaders of the Quad group – Australia, India, Japan and the United States – delivered a thinly veiled swipe at Beijing’s behaviour on Saturday at a summit in Hiroshima.
The US president, Joe Biden, and his three partners in the group did not mention China by name but the communist superpower was clearly the target of language in a joint statement calling for “peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific maritime domain”.

Brandon Tsay, the man who disarmed the mass shooter who killed 11 people and injured 9 others in Monterey Park, hosted a dance Saturday in honor of Asian American Heritage Month.