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For more than three months now, ordinary Iranians from all walks of life have taken to the streets to vent their rage.

Earth’s longest-lived people follow what author Dan Buettner calls blue-zone diets—and now he’s found more of them in the United States.

Just after Thanksgiving, we wrote on these pages about the courage of people in China, Iran and Ukraine, and how they were seeding the hope for freedom ...

China was able to contain the spread of the Covid virus quickly, and the Chinese people were able to live their lives just as usual.

Scores of people have contacted the Guardian to share their reaction to protests against zero-Covid policy
People living in China have expressed feelings of shock at the last week, with hopes that they continue, mixed with reservations about how successful they can be expected to be in challenging the one-party system.
The protests have led to a shift in China’s zero-Covid policy, with the government staging an abrupt turnaround to emphasise the as well as pushing vaccination and personal mitigation measures.

Daniel Duggan was arrested on return from China at the request of the FBI. Six weeks of high-security custody later, the charges against him remain sealed
Planes are Daniel Duggan’s passion. His professional life has been spent and training others. His social media is filled, almost exclusively, with from around the world.
But a man so often untethered to the ground has now spent 45 days in segregated and high-security custody in New South Wales. He still does not know the charges against him.

Virginia's draft history standards include the Japanese American incarceration during World War II but avoid mentioning the racism that led to it.

People opposing Beijing over issues like Hong Kong, Taiwan or the persecution of Uyghurs see the moment as an opportunity to find common cause.

In short, the Department of Justice and other federal agencies are targeting Chinese and Chinese American scientists, looking for evidence of spying. Unfortunately, they are making terrible mistakes ...

California Supreme Court Associate Justice Goodwin Liu said the shift in motivations has happened in the backdrop of the pandemic and social and political issues, such travel restrictions to the U.S.

(Reuters) - A new study has found that Asian American attorneys continue to be underrepresented in the top echelons of the legal profession, but are making progress in federal courts, in-house legal ...

PNG prime minister tells west ‘your enemy is not our enemy’ as he tries to steer clear of geopolitical struggle gripping the Pacific
The prime minister of Papua New Guinea has warned that his country will not be caught in a “standoff” between the US, Australia and China, as geopolitical tensions in the Pacific increase, warning the global powers to “keep your fights to yourselves”.
“Our nation is still an emerging economy, we cannot afford the standoff between our trading partners,” James Marape told the Guardian while on a visit to Sydney for a petroleum and mining conference.