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Illinois is the first state in the country to require students to learn about Asian American history. The new law doesn't specify a particular curriculum and, as Susie An of WBEZ reports, teachers are ...

Beijing says Toronto locations are ‘services stations’ to renew licenses – but China watchers say they monitor and pressure country’s diaspora
At a strip mall convenience store sandwiched between a hotpot restaurant and hair salon on the outskirts of Toronto, a clerk serves a steady flow of customers on a drizzly autumn morning.
In an office park a few miles away, a travel agent sorts through passports, arranging visas and booking tickets for her Chinese clientele.

Darrin Johnson, 26, of Cincinnati was arrested Thursday following his indictment by a federal grand jury, the U.S. attorney’s office in the southern district of Ohio said in a news release.

In 2020, voters elected the first three Korean American women to serve in Congress: Marilyn Strickland, Young Kim and Michelle Steel. Strickland is a Democrat ...

A congressional race in Orange County has become one of the most closely watched contests this election cycle, and will likely trigger a rethink for politicos on how Asian Americans vote.

A congressional race in Orange County has become one of the most closely watched contests this election cycle, and will likely trigger a rethink for politicos on how Asian Americans vote.

Both Democrats and Republicans are eyeing the Asian American community in Nevada’s electoral battlegrounds. They hope to sway the voters on issues like abortion, crime and inflation.

By Randall Yip, AsAmNews Executive Editor More than half of the 1900 Asian American and Pacific Islander voters surveyed say they’ll vote in person tomorrow. That’s the finding of a ...

World leaders, climate groups and activists are meeting in Egypt to thrash out plans on how to safeguard the future of the planet
For almost three decades, world governments have to forge a global response to the climate emergency. Under the 1992 UN framework convention on climate change (UNFCCC), every country is treaty-bound to “avoid dangerous climate change” and find ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions globally in an equitable way.

Asian Americans have been used as a wedge against African Americans, Latinos and Native Americans — an increasingly popular conservative culture-war tactic, columnist Naomi Ishisaka writes.

An Ohio man has been charged with a federal hate crime in connection with an alleged assault on an Asian American student at the University of Cincinnati last year. Darrin Johnson, 26, of Cincinnati ...