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This will be the first Asian Festival since the pandemic's onset and the first since UTSA embarked on the Institute of Texan Cultures (ITC) Centennial 2068: Community Stakeholder Visioning process.

US welcomes doubling of military spending but critics express unease over abandoning seven decades of pacifism
Japan has approved its biggest military buildup since the second world war, warning that China poses the “greatest strategic challenge ever” and outlining plans to develop a counterstrike capability funded by record defence spending.
The plans, announced by the government on Friday, reflect growing alarm over a more assertive Chinese military and a North Korean regime that continues to improve its nuclear and ballistic missile capabilities.

If you want to look at growth so far this decade, your best bet is the bureaus Population and Housing Unit Estimates tables or the 2021 American Community Survey 5-Year data sets. What push-pull facto ...

The legacy of voracious collector Charles Lang Freer, a good friend of James McNeill Whistler, is marked by tension and irony ...

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Morning Mail: ‘foreign actors’ election warning, feral deer ‘plague’, Sussexes’ doco reveals palace wars
It might be the end of the year, but there is still a lot of news to keep up to date with at home and abroad. To get caught up on all the important headlines from the Wieambilla shootings to the front line of Ukraine, as well as the latest revelations from the Sussexes’ documentary, have a read of our Morning Mail.

Purdue University Northwest Chancellor Thomas L. Keon apologized for "offensive and insensitive" remarks he made onstage during a commencement ceremony.

The pro-democracy figure has been subjected to a ‘travesty of justice’ because the Communist party regards his power as a threat, experts believe
Even before his jailing, Jimmy Lai knew he faced a grim future, but insisted on fighting his cause.
“Without fighting, we don’t have hope. We don’t know when we’ll win, but we’re so sure we’re on the right side of history, and time is on our side,” the founder of the vocal pro-democracy Hong Kong newspaper Apple Daily told the Guardian in August 2020 while on bail, five days after his arrest over allegations of foreign collusion.

President Biden faced a challenge in winning the confidence of a continent where the circumstances of its leaders vary so dramatically.

The U.S. Department of Commerce is adding 36 Chinese companies to an export controls blacklist, citing concerns over national security ...

The Biden administration placed severe restrictions on trade with dozens of Chinese entities, its latest step in a campaign to curtail access to technology with military applications.

Purdue University Northwest Chancellor Thomas L. Keon apologized for "offensive and insensitive" remarks he made onstage during a commencement ceremony.

Gripped with grief, anxiety and depression, many in China want a national reckoning over the hard-line “zero Covid” policy. Holding the government to account may be a quixotic quest.