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Nevada is 1 of 5 states with over 10% Asian Americans. Both parties courted vote, but Dems won out. In the highly competitive swing state of Nevada, both parties aggressively courted Asian Americans ...

Negotiations are centred on ‘loss and damages’ – but some think that language does not fully account for climate debt
Todd Stern, the US climate envoy to Barack Obama who , recalls how at his first UN climate summit in 2009, the first question at his first press conference caught him offguard.
“I had just arrived, and I was asked: do you believe in paying reparations to developing countries?” he recalls. “I said no, absolutely not. But I certainly believe in significant support for developing countries.”

Anthony Albanese’s first summit season as Australian prime minister took place in dangerous times, but began and ended with hopeful signs. Katharine Murphy was with him for crucial meetings at Asean and the G20
Hun Sen is pacing along a carpet like a nervous teenager waiting for a date. Cambodia’s strongman is perusing flower arrangements, checking what appears to be a gold-encased smart phone. Friends are coming over. The gala dinner of the Asean summit is being staged in an enormous ballroom. The carpet is red, embossed with gold motifs. Lights the shape of triffids dangle over the heads of guests.

China is responsible for more cumulative emissions than any country other than the US
Late on Thursday night in the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, the Cop27 UN climate talks seemed stuck in an irretrievable logjam. Rich and poor countries had reached deadlock, a “breakdown between north and south”, according to the UN secretary general, António Guterres.
By Friday morning, the talks had been upended and the battleground dramatically redrawn, in a way it has not been in 30 years of these annual talks. At stake is the question of whether some of the world’s leading economies – countries such as China, Saudi Arabia and other Gulf petrostates, Russia and countries with high per capita income such as South Korea and Singapore – should start contributing for the first time to help the poorest and most vulnerable countries with the impacts of climate disaster.

Last week, my colleague Eileen Guo wrote about a historic settlement won by Chinese-American scientist Sherry Chen, who was wrongly accused of being a Chinese spy. To briefly recap, Chen ...

This story originally published online at NC Policy Watch. Voters elected Asian American women to the North Carolina legislature for the first time. Maria Cervania won House Distr ...

A new poll suggests that more than half of Asian Americans say they would support a potential U S Supreme Court decision to ban affirmative action policies as the nation s higher court weighs ...

According to the survey, 53% of Asian American respondents said they would support the "Supreme Court banning affirmative action," and 26% said they would oppose having the high court ban affirmative ...

Known for going viral for his controversial hit “Asian Baby Girl”, Chinese-American rapper Chow Mane continues ...

In 1872, these dual aims were manifested in the Chinese Educational Mission, where 120 students between the ages of 12 and 15 were sent to the United States, placed with American families, and ...

and Singapore supports the American military presence. The object appears to be to take advantage of development opportunities and close economic ties with Beijing while resisting Chinese domination.

Yes, Virginia, there is an Asian Santa Claus. He's a hockey dad, speaks with a Southern drawl and was recruited for the job out of Dallas. Allan Siu knows he's a unicorn of Santa reenactors. A 2021 ...