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Asian American history studies are not a regular part of school education programs, but that's about to change in Illinois. Beginning this year, every public school and high school in the state must ...

Deep down I was sure that we were incapable financially of bringing a new baby into this world," said an Asian woman in Texas who got an abortion secretly on a rushed timeline.

The company blames the ‘severe depression’ in the property market and says ‘only the fittest will survive’
China’s biggest property developer Country Garden Holdings has reported a 96% drop in profits, blaming a “severe depression” in the country’s crisis-hit property market in which “only the fittest can survive”.
The company, which is listed in Hong Kong, said preliminary net profit collapsed from 15bn yuan ($2bn) to 612m yuan ($88m) in the first six months of the year thanks to the housing market crisis that is slowly engulfing the Chinese economy.

Weather agencies warn of flooding as analyst warns a winter energy crunch is ‘highly likely’
Rain across central China this week is expected to relieve the country’s worst heatwave on record, but weather agencies are now warning of potential floods, while analysts say the energy crisis exacerbated by the months-long drought is not over.
Almost half of China has been affected by the latest heatwave, the . Hundreds of temperature records have been broken, and the heat has exacerbated the effects of low rainfall, drying up rivers and reservoirs across the country.

A 15-year veteran of private equity firm Portfolio Advisors LLC has sued her former employer in federal court for allegedly discriminating against her because she’s Asian-American. Michelle Lee, ...

The White House is debating a tariff cut on Chinese imports, with the president considering the possible impact on inflation against the impact on American workers.

In report since taken off social media, Anbound Research Center said preventing ‘economic stall’ should take priority over virus elimination
A Chinese thinktank has issued a rare public disagreement with the ruling Communist party’s severe “zero-Covid” policy, saying curbs that shut down cities and disrupt trade, travel and industry must change to prevent an “economic stall”.
The Anbound Research Center gave no details of possible changes but said on Monday that Xi Jinping’s government needed to focus on . It noted the US, Europe and Japan were recovering economically after easing anti-disease curbs.

He’s setting his sights on the U.S. to launch a cross-border e-commerce site next month, say Chinese media and Reuters. The aim is to emulate fast-fashion retailer Shein, the mysterious Zara ...

The 26 total equals the number of flights for American Airlines, Delta and United that China recently canceled as "circuit-breaker" penalties resulting from passengers testing positive for Covid-19.

Economists warn that China needs to boost growth that sank to 2.5 percent over a year earlier in the first half of 2022 after Shanghai and other industrial centers shut down starting in late March to ...

Stefanos Tai speaks with Asia Society Korea’s senior correspondent David Tizzard about how identity, culture, and a desire to connect drove to make a film that will touch and inspire many.

We should never take free speech for granted, especially if it concerns art, writes John Finlay
I read with interest your editorial (). In 2016, I was about to publish a book on pop art, which had a short section on artists responding to political and social turmoil in the 1960s, and which included an illustration of . The etching depicts Mao Zedong of the People’s Republic of China and the US president Lyndon B Johnson, who sent troops to counter Chinese communist support in the Vietnam war.
Dine’s coloured etching applies cosmetic touches to the lips, cheeks and eyelids of these two supposed (and opposed) “freedom” fighters (and a black heart painted on the chin of Mao), essentially to caricature political propaganda and masculine conviction. The capitalist and communist leaders appear as drag actors whose posturing affects a global audience. The printers of my book – a Chinese company – forced the London publisher to remove the offending illustration and text. In our cosy western world, we should never take free speech for granted, especially if it concerns art.John FinlayEdinburgh