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T he city of Spokane on Wednesday announced a two-month-long celebration for the 50th anniversary of Expo '74, a world fair held in Spokane in 1974.

TJ debuted in a video with actor Kal Pen, "Sesame Street" veteran Grover, and Korean American muppet Ji-Young.

Protesters threw what appeared to be cake at the Volkswagen chair, Hans Dieter Pötsch, at a shareholders' meeting on Wednesday. Pötsch can be seen ducking to avoiding being hit.

About 10 activists also interrupted the speech by Volkswagen's chief executive, Oliver Blume, protesting against the carmaker's plant in China's north-western Xinjiang region by waving banners that read: 'End Uyghur Forced Labour at VW'

The return of budget tour groups from mainland China is sparking frustrations — and a dose of snobbery — in a city starved for business.

A three-stop tour by China’s foreign minister this week has everyone trying to balance economic and security interests when it comes to Russia and Ukraine.

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First British ministerial visit to Hong Kong since Chinese crackdown focused on attracting investment
The first British ministerial visit to Hong Kong since the introduction of draconian Chinese security laws five years ago was a chance to demand that China unlock more than £2bn in pensions belonging to British overseas passport holders who fled for the UK, former cabinet ministers have told the Foreign Office.
A letter signed by more than 90 MPs, including 10 former ministers, urges the trade minister Dominic Johnson to do more to release frozen savings belonging to thousands of Hongkongers.

May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month and in honor of the amazing cultural contributions we’ve received from the community over the years, we rounded up the best books by AAPI ...

This beloved debut novel by Ocean Vuong garnered incredible praise and racked up numerous awards quickly after its release in 2019. It’s also an Editor’s Pick for Best Literature & Fiction on Amazon.

This beloved debut novel by Ocean Vuong garnered incredible praise and racked up numerous awards quickly after its release in 2019. It’s also an Editor’s Pick for Best Literature & Fiction on Amazon.

May is Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month, a time to honor and pay homage to the generations of Asian and Pacific Islanders that have contributed to the history and culture of the United ...

This bawdy, irreverent Cultural Revolution classic is also bizarrely moving
During the , children killed parents, lives were broken irrevocably, millions were beaten and starved to death – and Wang Xiaobo wrote an erotic comic novel about it all.
Now one of China’s most popular modern writers, Wang was completely unknown when he released Golden Age in Taiwan in 1992; now it is available for the first time in complete form in a sparky, earthy translation by the young Chinese American translator Yan Yan. Wang wrote prolifically, torrentially, for the next five years, scandalising the authorities and titillating the public, until his death in 1997, when his novels moved from black-market editions to more freely disseminated, semi-sanctioned copies.