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The Japanese cabinet approved the first update to the country’s official security strategy in nine years, elevating Beijing over North Korea as the top threat.

New psychology research indicates that religion provided little protection against racism-induced mental health issues among Asian Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic. The findings have been ...

Argentina will not make any immediate military aircraft purchases, President Alberto Fernandez has said of US$664 million defence budget plan China's FC-1/JF-17 'Thunder' multi-role fighter aircraft, ...

The red flags should have been as conspicuous as a traditional Indian bride’s wedding lehenga given that the discombobulated text in the legislation establishing the council opens with discriminatory ...

GuiYing Ma and her husband immigrated to New York seeking work and adventure. She died after a vicious sidewalk attack.

As the government abandons ‘zero Covid’, it may take decades for ordinary Chinese people to recover – and many aren’t sure it was worth it
After China’s , many ordinary Chinese people are struggling to cope with the mental trauma from three years of frequent lockdowns and are demanding answers for the heavy price they have paid.
On Friday, one of the top shared posts on Sina Weibo – China’s Twitter-like platform – was an article citing medical experts as saying depression, anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder suffered by the population would probably take between 10 and 20 years to recover from.

Lawyer says Duggan maintains his innocence after US accused him of training Chinese military pilots to land on aircraft carriers
The US government has sent an extradition request to Australia for former US Marines pilot Daniel Duggan, who is accused of breaking US arms control laws by training Chinese military pilots to land on aircraft carriers.
“The US has made a formal request for extradition for Mr Duggan,” Trent Glover, a lawyer for the US government, told a Sydney local court on Friday.

The Asian American sketch troupe No MSG Added was co-founded by Eric Vue and Shinshin Yuder Tsai four years ago.

Asian advocacy organizations say an apology isn’t enough. They are calling for more action against a Purdue Northwest chancellor who recently spoke to graduates mimicking an Asian language. They say ...

One of the sketches in the new holiday show from Asian American comedy troupe No MSG Added features two musicians in the parking lot of Lee's Sandwiches, a Vietnamese bánh mì chain, in Garden ...

This will be the first Asian Festival since the pandemic's onset and the first since UTSA embarked on the Institute of Texan Cultures (ITC) Centennial 2068: Community Stakeholder Visioning process.

US welcomes doubling of military spending but critics express unease over abandoning seven decades of pacifism
Japan has approved its biggest military buildup since the second world war, warning that China poses the “greatest strategic challenge ever” and outlining plans to develop a counterstrike capability funded by record defence spending.
The plans, announced by the government on Friday, reflect growing alarm over a more assertive Chinese military and a North Korean regime that continues to improve its nuclear and ballistic missile capabilities.