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One flyer showing up in mailboxes across North Carolina has a picture of President Joe Biden and says the government wants to replace white and Asian workers with Black and Latinx workers.

Beijing ‘resolutely opposes’ official exchanges between Taipei and UK government, says foreign ministry
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China has criticised the British government for sending the trade minister Greg Hands to Taiwan and said the UK must cease “sending the wrong signals” to pro-independence forces on the self-ruled island that Beijing regards as its territory.
Hands began a two-day visit to Taipei on Monday, during which he is scheduled to meet the democracy’s president, Tsai Ing-wen, and co-host the 25th annual UK-Taiwan trade talks.

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.