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Catherine Ceniza Choy, author of the book “Asian American Histories of the United States,” will introduce her work and engage in a dialogue with Studium Generale Coordinator Kate Reavey on Thursday.

In celebration of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, the Multimedia Services Department in Mullins Library has compiled a list of streaming videos available to all students, staff and ...

The consulting firm Capvision Partners is the latest to be raided in the name of national security, sending a chill through the foreign business community.

Also, protests in Pakistan after the arrest of Imran Khan.

Berkeley artist and fifth-generation Chinese Californian Aimee Baldwin had long known of her ancestors’ experiences facing exclusion and discrimination, but until a few years ago, much of what she ...

Six anti-monarchy protesters were detained on day of coronation but Met later admitted they ‘regretted’ their arrests. This live blog is closed
Rishi Sunak has recorded a clip for broadcasters in Southampton. Asked about the arrest of some anti-monarchy protesters at the coronation, for which the Met has now apologised, Sunak refused to criticise police for what they did.
Asked if the arrests made him feel uncomfortable, Sunak said the police were “operationally independent of government”. He went on:
They make the decisions on the ground in the way they see fit.
It wouldn’t be right for me to interfere with their operational decisions, but it is right for the government to give the police the powers to tackle serious disruption.
With regard to protest, of course people have the right to protest freely but peacefully, but it is also right that people have the ability to go about their day-to-day lives without facing serious disruption.
What the government has done is give the police the powers that they need to tackle instances of serious disruption to people’s lives.
Pharmacies in Wales have been able to prescribe certain medicines for a year now, so this is just the government stealing a Labour policy again. Why does the media happily report everyone Tory slur on the Welsh NHS but never point out the positives? As another example, there have been several stories in the Guardian recently about pregnant women being chased for prescription charges because they didn’t do the correct paperwork, but no mention that this would not have happened in Wales, where all prescriptions are free!

New genetics study finds some of the first arrivals came during the last ice age, and shortly after, in two distinct migrations
Some of the first humans to arrive in the Americas included people from what is now China, who arrived in two distinct migrations during and after the last ice age, a new genetics study has found.
“Our findings indicate that besides the previously indicated ancestral sources of Native Americans in Siberia, the northern coastal also served as a genetic reservoir contributing to the gene pool,” said Yu-Chun Li, one of the report authors.

Russell Jeung, a co-founder of Stop AAPI Hate and a professor of Asian American studies at San Francisco State University, speaks at a rally organized by the Asian American Christian Collaborative.

Xu Zaozao’s case is widely followed in a country where women’s rights have become increasingly prominent
A single Chinese woman has begun an appeal in her legal battle for the right to freeze her eggs, a procedure only available in China to married couples.
Xu Zaozao took legal action in 2019 after but a Beijing court

As the nation marks Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, a new study is giving insight into the experiences and attitudes of Asian Americans. It's the largest nationally-representative ...