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Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Chinese Defense Minister Li Shangfu met face-to-face and shook hands Friday during the opening dinner of the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore.

China has pushed to set the terms of its re-engagement with the Biden administration, rebuffing a request for a defense meeting while urging Washington to drop sanctions.

Prime minister also seeks to reassure regional nations wary about Australia’s reasons for acquiring nuclear submarines under Aukus pact
Anthony Albanese has warned against “harmful” assumptions that the US and China are heading towards an inevitable war, and called for “practical structures to prevent a worst-case scenario”.
The Australian prime minister said a war in the Indo-Pacific would be “devastating for the world” and used a keynote speech to a regional security summit in Singapore to urge all countries to uphold peace and stability.

Asian American groups are calling for the resignation of San Francisco Board of Education (BoE) President Kevine Boggess for purportedly supporting a “racially discriminatory” selection process for ...

Asian American groups are calling for the resignation of San Francisco Board of Education (BoE) President Kevine Boggess for purportedly supporting a “racially discriminatory” selection process for ...

Asian American groups are calling for the resignation of San Francisco Board of Education (BoE) President Kevine Boggess for purportedly supporting a “racially discriminatory” selection process for ...

An Asian American woman has gone viral on TikTok after showing her experience being fetishized on the dating app Hinge. Uploaded by TikTok user Katie (@katiednos) on Sunday, the short 13-second clip ...

An Asian American woman has gone viral on TikTok after showing her experience being fetishized on the dating app Hinge. Uploaded by TikTok user Katie (@katiednos) on Sunday, the short 13-second clip shows a series of screenshots summarizing her experience “installing Hinge as an Asian on the East Coast.

Amid usual scrubbing for Tiananmen Square anniversary, searches for bridge where protest was held in 2022 return no results
Chinese censors scrubbing the internet of any words or symbols that could be used to reference the Tiananmen Square massacre in the run-up to Sunday’s anniversary have a new target in their sights: a bridge in Beijing where a rare protest was staged last year.
As the 34th anniversary of the 1989 massacre approaches, anyone searching in Chinese for Sitong Bridge on Baidu maps will draw a blank.

Multiple Asian American groups are challenging Republican-led states for laws passed to ban affiliates of the Chinese Communist Party from buying property, according to court records and public statements.

Heatwave continues in southern and eastern Asia as temperatures exceed 40C in vast swathes of region
Shanghai in China has reported a record high May temperature of 36.7C, breaking the previous record by 1C. The new high temperature on 29 May comes amid the heatwave affecting southern and eastern Asia since mid-April. Vast swathes of the region have had temperatures exceeding 40C, with parts of Pakistan reaching almost 50C in mid-May.
South-east Asia has been affected particularly badly, with record high national temperatures in Laos (43.5C), Vietnam (44.2C), and Thailand (45.4C). This is due to low amounts of rainfall over the previous winter resulting in drier soils, which can heat up more quickly than moist soils, thus exacerbating the effect.

LAWRENCEVILLE, N.J. (CBS) -- As we celebrate Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, we're introducing you to a decorated Army surgeon who made military history. Lisa Hou is the first ...