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On Sept. 29, the Pennsylvania Asian Pacific American Jewish Alliance will convene for the first time, marking a pioneering local effort to build solidarity between the Jewish and Asian American […] ...

The American guided-missile destroyer and Canadian frigate conducted their second Taiwan Strait transit in a year.

A lack of health care services for Asian Americans in Philadelphia contributes to poor screening for serious illnesses like Hepatitis B.

Li acknowledges the link between his changing diet and his diabetes, a disease that costs him a large chunk of his income in medical bills
Li, a retired farmer who lives in Henan province in central China, has type 2 diabetes. The condition is manageable but comes with large out-of-pocket expenses, a common feature for people in China, especially those who, like Li, live in rural areas and don’t have the best insurance policies.
Li doesn’t like to complain too much, though, and says his children help him with the bills.

Health cover varies widely between rich cities and poorer regions, and government messages on healthy living do not always go down well
The tyranny of distance and the yawning social divide in China are seriously hampering attempts to control an “epidemic” of diseases such as lung cancer, despite billions being spent on healthcare, experts have warned.
Health and social outcomes vary greatly between urban and rural areas, between rich and poor, causing such alarm in Beijing that President Xi Jinping has made raising “common prosperity” the watchword of his bid to rule for an unprecedented third term.

Stratospheric economic growth since the late 1970s has brought great prosperity, along with ‘western-style’ health problems that are beginning to have a devastating impact
China faces a health emergency from “hidden epidemics’’ of diseases such as cancer, heart trouble and diabetes that could have far-reaching social, economic and demographic consequences for the world’s most populous nation, experts have warned.
Although China imposed to protect its people from Covid-19, the deadly impact from non-communicable diseases is much less well understood and threatens to kill tens of millions of Chinese in the coming decades without tougher public health policies.

Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Monday met with representatives from the National Committee on United States-China Relations, the U.S.-China Business Council and the United ...

The Asian American Power Network, a progressive advocacy group, has launched a $10 million effort to turn out Asian American voters in seven key battleground states ahead of the midterms.

The world is fretting over the demise of global supply chains and the threat of de-globalization, with the US trying to lure manufacturing activity back home—or at least closer. Yet, supply chains ...

The Asian American Power Network launched a $10 million effort to improve voter turnout from the Asian community in seven battleground states ahead of the midterm elections.

China has pledged to make its Belt and Road initiative greener, but critics say environmental guidelines ‘nonexistent’
In July 2019, China rolled out the red carpet for the Bangladeshi prime minister, Sheikh Hasina. Flown to Beijing by the Chinese government, she was and banquet and the president, Xi Jinping, and the prime minister, Li Keqiang. Three days later, she returned to her capital, Dhaka, with worth billions of dollars to build power plants and provide other development assistance.
Hasina’s short visit . Big new infrastructure projects would help lift living standards in Bangladesh, but also enable China to strengthen its influence on its fast-growing neighbour of more than 160 million people.
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