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Damning report cites human rights violations against Uyghur Muslims in north-west Chinese province
China has committed “serious human rights violations” against Uyghur Muslims in province that could amount to crimes against humanity, the outgoing UN human rights commissioner has said in a long-awaited and .

An Asian American attorney based in Darien, Connecticut, has launched a federal lawsuit against her former employer for allegedly discriminating against her due to her race and sex. Michelle Lee, who ...

Funding still needs to be approved but could offer breathing space amid country’s economic turmoil
The International Monetary Fund has tentatively offered Sri Lanka a $2.9bn (£2.5bn) loan to help the country recover from since it gained independence from Britain in 1948.
The funding is meant to provide some breathing space for Sri Lanka, which is scrambling to restructure nearly $30bn in debt to creditors including China, India and a string of international banks.

The Chinese Exclusion Act was finally repealed in 1943, but the Chinese and other Asian American communities continued to be shut out of many neighborhoods in this country. Racist incidents ...

The report’s assessment that China’s crackdown in Xinjiang could amount to “crimes against humanity” gives new momentum to a campaign to pressure Beijing.

Having completed the approval process from the Village of Skokie, entrepreneur Ghani, a Morton Grove resident, plans to open his third Bonchon Korean fried chicken restaurant at 5237 Touhy Ave. in ...

A successful deal to restrain Iran’s nuclear program would mean that Washington lifts tough sanctions on Iran’s oil and gas exports. But it may already be too late for that to help this winter.

The organization’s human rights office delivered its much-delayed report minutes before Michelle Bachelet, the U.N. high commissioner for human rights, was to leave office.

Action near islet comes after Taipei vowed to take tough measures to deal with increase in such intrusions
Taiwan’s military has shot down for the first time an unidentified civilian drone that entered its airspace near an islet off the Chinese coast, after the government vowed to take tough measures to deal with an increase in such intrusions.
Beijing, which claims Taiwan as its own against the objections of the Taipei government, has around the island since early last month in reaction to a visit to Taipei by the US House of Representatives speaker, Nancy Pelosi.

T hey were not the first American warships to sail through the Taiwan Strait in defiance of Chinese warnings. Nor were they the biggest to navigate the waters between mainland China and the ...

Have you ever been told that the Chinese culture is rich and has the best morals? With people working hard towards their goals and leading the country to success, there are holes that make their ...