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Six people accused of publishing book relating to 2019 protests in move critics say has spread terror
Police in Hong Kong have raided a lunar new year shopping fair and arrested six people for selling a “seditious” book related to the 2019 anti-government protests in a move critics say has spread “terror” just days before the celebrations.
National security officers accused three men and three women, aged between 18 and 62, of producing and publishing “a seditious book about a series of riots that occurred in Hong Kong from June 2019 to February 2020”, and selling it in a lunar new year stall in a shopping centre in Mong Kok, a bustling shopping district.

Georgia’s first Asian American Pacific Islander caucus took to the podium Tuesday to roll out legislative priorities for the year. Included in the caucus’ legislative agenda are measures to increase ...

Hate, one in five Asian Americans experienced a hate incident in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, reported news portal Edsurge early this week. EdSurge Research has spent the last year ...

Former President Donald Trump says that if he retakes the White House, he will ban Chinese nationals from buying US farmland.

Aruna Miller made history on Wednesday as the first immigrant and first Asian American elected statewide in Maryland when she was sworn in as the 10th lieutenant governor of the state.

British luxury goods firm reports 1% increase in global sales in last quarter of 2022
Burberry offset a plunge in Chinese sales of more than a fifth amid Covid disruption, thanks to the return of tourists to Europe who snapped up bags, scarves and trenchcoats in the run-up to Christmas.
The British luxury goods firm reported a 1% increase in global sales in the three months to the end of December, below its 2% target and sharply down compared with the 11% growth reported in the previous quarter.

There are finally positive signs for the game, but only after three years that diminished the CSL from its global standing
There cannot be many, if any, leagues that have been affected by the pandemic as much as the Chinese Super League. It was the first to deal with Covid-19 and, with China keeping stringent restrictions on daily life longer than elsewhere, the last to operate in tightly controlled conditions. With Beijing’s so-called zero-Covid policy , the country of 1.4bn people is finally opening up and this can only be good news for its beleaguered football industry.
2019 seems like a lifetime ago. Back then the league may have been losing a little of the lustre that made it one of the most-talked about in the world and some of the financial clout that had previously had coaches such as Antonio Conte, then of Chelsea, warning of the danger from the east, but the average attendance was still higher than anywhere else in Asia, at 24,000. There were still international stars such as Ezequiel Lavezzi, Graziano Pellè, Yannick Carrasco, Alex Teixeira, Javier Mascherano, Renato Augusto and Paulinho, and plenty of quality and excitement.

A 53-year-old Cambridge man is set to appear in Boston Municipal Court in connection with two random attacks on Asian American women in Chinatown and Downtown Crossing last year. Alexander Ivanenko ...

Latest Black Panther and Ant-Man superhero flicks get February release in country famously controlling over Hollywood movies
China has ended its de facto ban on Marvel films, with superhero flicks and both locking in surprise release dates, after a three-and-a-half-year gap that has cost Disney hundreds of millions in ticket sales.
The films will be released in February, after the lunar new year, marking the first Marvel releases in the world’s second-largest theatrical market since Avengers: Endgame in 2019.

China struggled for years to curtail its rapid population growth. Now that its population is declining, economists and others fear serious implications for China and countries around the world.

New government data shows that growth for the year fell far short of Beijing’s goal. With Covid curbs lifted but the pandemic’s course uncertain, hope and fear cloud the forecast.

Former President Donald Trump says that if he retakes the White House, he will ban Chinese nationals from buying US farmland.