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Have you ever been told that the Chinese culture is rich and has the best morals? With people working hard towards their goals and leading the country to success, there are holes that make their ...

When a Romanian businessman returned to his hometown and found a city blighted by mining waste, he hatched a plan to restore it to its former glory. He became a local hero, but now prosecutors accuse of him a running a multimillion dollar fraud
The first time I heard the name Daniel Boldor, I was in Bucharest in a room full of police officers. A discussion about wealthy countries shipping their waste to poorer countries had turned to what Romania – one of the of Europe’s trash – was doing to fight back. Strict surveillance was being conducted at ports, the officers affirmed, and cargo trucks were undergoing checks. And then one of the policemen asked if I had ever heard the story of Daniel Boldor. For a moment, his colleagues awkwardly scanned the floor with their eyes, as if the officer had made some kind of gaffe. Yes, they seemed to eventually nod in agreement, a sense of enthusiasm overtaking the table. It was an extraordinary story.
It sounded like a fairytale. Some years earlier, hundreds of miles north of Bucharest, deep in the mountains of Transylvania, a Roma man claimed to have discovered a great lost treasure: thousands of tonnes of gold and copper that had been dug up decades earlier, then forgotten. His name was Daniel Boldor, and he had a plan. He found investors across the world. He paid his fellow Roma to gather the metal for him. Then he began selling his treasure. Buyers from South Africa to South Korea proved willing to pay tremendous sums of money for it.

They support Taiwan's democratic way of life and don't want China, which considers the island part of its territory, to take over by force.

Ban on Nvidia and AMD sales marks a major escalation of US efforts to restrict China’s military technology capabilities as tensions bubble over Taiwan
Chip designer Nvidia said that US officials told it to stop exporting two top computing chips for artificial intelligence work to China, a move that could cripple Chinese firms’ ability to carry out advanced work like image recognition.
The company on Wednesday said the ban, which affects its A100 and H100 chips designed to speed up machine learning tasks, could interfere with completion of developing the H100, the flagship chip Nvidia announced this year.

Vladimir Putin reacts to Mikhail Gorbachev’s death.

In May 2022, Chinese dancer Chun Wai Chan became the principal dancer of the New York City Ballet (NYCB), the first principal from China in NYCB's 74-year history. This month, Chan will bring a ballet ...

Malden finalized a set of voter accessibility commitments last week. It needs the state legislature's approval for one remaining step.

Pfizer is offering a fellowship program specifically for “early career colleagues of Black/African American, Latino/Hispanic and Native American descent." ...

A Cornell University student was assaulted while posting flyers drawing attention to Chinese Communist Party abuses.

While spikes in hate crimes and violence against Asian Americans have emboldened activism in recent years, filmmakers and creatives have long been working to amplify Asian stories for decades. In 1978 ...

Asian American advocacy groups have opposed President Joe Biden’s nomination of Casey Arrowood to serve as U.S. Attorney. Arrowood, an assistant U.S. Attorney, is one of Biden’s nominees to serve as ...

Asian American advocacy groups have opposed President Joe Biden’s nomination of Casey Arrowood to serve as U.S. Attorney. Arrowood, an assistant U.S. Attorney, is one of Biden’s nominees to serve as ...