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The two-day programming lineup, Jan. 21-22 at The Shop, will feature a 20th anniversary celebration of ‘Bend It Like Beckham,’ which premiered at Sundance in 2003.

China has remained a significant, if largely silent, counterweight to the international censure of Russia.

A longtime teacher at Fresno City College, Lee Herrick is inspired by his home state — and hopes to move young people to write about it, too.

“The power of theater is in the conversations it creates, how one play leads to the next,” the playwright Lloyd Suh said of the newfound opportunities for Asian American artists.Credit ...

Hong Kong action star Jackie Chan revealed why he “gave up on American showbiz” in a recent episode of the reality TV show “Memories Beyond Horizon.” The martial artist and acting legend, who appeared ...

With relatively low vaccination rates and a lack of reliable data, 60% of the population may soon be infected
The Chinese government has changed its approach from “zero Covid” to “living with Covid”. This is largely because the virus has become too transmissible to contain: new variants have emerged that cause . As part of this shift towards “living with Covid”, entire cities are no longer in lockdown, restrictions have been lifted on domestic travel and people who test positive can now isolate at home instead of at government facilities. Testing has become voluntary, and asymptomatic cases of Covid-19 are no longer being counted. Meanwhile, the government is urging vaccine uptake among elderly people and vulnerable groups.
What is baffling global health experts is why China took so long to vaccinate these groups, and why the government such as the mRNA vaccines, which proved to be the most effective at preventing severe illness. The US director of national intelligence, Avril Haines, said Xi Jinping seemed “unwilling to take a better vaccine from the west, and is instead relying on a vaccine in China that’s just not nearly as effective against Omicron”. China’s government insisted on trying to develop its own vaccine, which caused a costly and deadly time delay. While many other nations vaccinated their populations in 2021 and boosted in 2022, rates of vaccination in China are comparatively low: only about have received three shots.
Prof Devi Sridhar is chair of global public health at the University of Edinburgh

First Australian minister to visit Beijing in three years raised sensitive issues, declaring region wants China and the US to manage tensions
Australia’s foreign affairs minister, Penny Wong, has raised human rights, detained citizens and “trade blockages” in talks with her Chinese counterpart in Beijing on the 50th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the two countries.
Wong, the first Australian minister to visit China in three years, brought up the sensitive issues while declaring that small and medium-sized countries in the region wanted China and the US to responsibly manage their tensions.

The latest Chinese aggression against India is yet another reminder of why a strong Indo-US security partnership is crucial to their national security, top American lawmakers have said. The Chinese ...

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Long delays on M7 at Prestons in Sydney
Traffic is banked up on the M7 in Sydney. Chanel 7 is reporting that a truck crash has caused the long delays.
They’re sharing their emotions and their grief because they believe this should never have happened.
It’s really important for us to have that public support. It inspires us to continue to do our job.
They’ve also lost two colleagues … so they are hurting incredibly.
A lot of work to be done to assist them as we move into the future because the pain will never go away.

"I'm stunned that people are still reading it," Yang tells EW. "I was actually just in Boston a month ago talking about this book, and in a lot of ways I feel very fortunate for the support that I ...