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The prominent success of Asian and Asian American performers this award season is drawing new attention to the lack of recognition given to people of Asian descent in former years. The 95th Academy ...

A group of Republicans in the House of Representatives are sending a letter to President Biden demanding an investigation into the Chinese Communist Party's position in the recently-collapsed Silicon ...

Weather event also caused flooding, heavy rain and gusts of over 100mph this week
An unusually deep area of low pressure moved into California late on Tuesday. The low deepened quickly, reaching the threshold for “rapid cyclogenesis”, when a low deepens by at least 24 millibars (mb) in a 24-hour period (millibars measure the effective weight of the atmosphere pushing down on the Earth’s surface, due to gravity). A weather buoy in Monterey Bay reported a drop of 24mb in just 17 hours, with a minimum air pressure of 985mb recorded there.
A similar air pressure was recorded at San Francisco international airport, a March air pressure record for that site. The area of low pressure brought heavy rain to California, with , along with strong winds. A gust of 102mph (164km/h) was recorded over higher ground to the north of Los Angeles. The strong winds resulted in power outages, and were potentially caused by a sting jet, although the details are uncertain until further research has been conducted. Additionally, the low also produced tornadoes on Tuesday and Wednesday. A tornado in Carpinteria, near Santa Barbara, damaged mobile homes on Tuesday. The following day, one person suffered minor injuries from a tornado in Montebello, south-east of Los Angeles. The tornado also damaged building roofs and cars during its path of over half a kilometre in length.

Five Chinese nationals were taken away Monday, and the company, which does corporate investigations, and its law firm have been unable to contact them.

The Foreign Ministry rebuffed claims by U.S. lawmakers that TikTok could be a tool of surveillance for the Chinese government.

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Apple Daily founder and British national, 75, in jail since 2020 facing charges under national security law
A close confidant of the jailed Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai has called on Britain to do more to secure the 75-year-old’s release.
Lai, a prominent businessman and founder of Apple Daily, a pro-democracy newspaper, has been . He has been convicted of fraud and faces more serious charges of foreign collusion under Hong Kong’s sweeping national security law.

Asian Americans' psychological state over the last few years has been one of hypervigilance and pretending — constantly having to act as if everything is "business as usual" even amid high-profile ...

Only one in four of Asian professionals feel that their company or institution is "very vocal" about the issue of hate.

TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew has endured a nearly six-hour grilling by U.S. lawmakers, some of whom are pushing to ban the popular short-video app nationwide.