Hong Sangsoo wins Berlinale Best Director
By Diana ChengAAP Film & Arts Writer Renowned South Korean director Hong Sangsoo won the prestigious Silver Berlin Bear for Best Director at the 70th Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale)[…]
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Mendis honored for service in Korea, China, and America
By Ajith KumarajiwaSejong Press SEOUL, South Korea (Oct. 17, 2019) — After his lecture at the ancient Longquan Buddhist Monastery in China, Sri Lankan-born American diplomat Patrick Mendis arrived in[…]
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South Dakota WW II veterans are awarded France’s highest award
MITCHELL, S.D. (Aug. 26, 2019) — The Republic of France paid special tribute to three South Dakota members of the “greatest generation.” French Consul General to the Midwest Guillaume LaCroix[…]
France Honors Three WWII Veterans of South Dakota
French Consul, Chicago — (Aug. 23-24) — Guillaume Lacroix, French Consul General to the Midwest presented the French Legion of Honor medal to Kenneth Higashi, 97, of Spearfish, Orville “Bert”[…]
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UN chief supports smallholder farm investing ahead of visit to Lao PDR and Cambodia
Rome (July 18, 2019) — The President of the United Nations’ International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Gilbert F. Houngbo, will meet the Prime Minister of the Lao People’s Democratic[…]
WWII comfort women speak out in Tiffany Hsiung’s ‘The Apology’
By Diana Cheng AAP Arts & Film Writer United Nations researchers report that between 1931 and 1945, the Japanese military forced an estimated 200,000 to 400,000 women and girls into[…]
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From ‘a mud House to the White House’
BEIJING(Nov. 7, 2018) — The University of Minnesota and Harvard-trained scholar Patrick Mendis, Ph.D., joins the Yenching Academy of Peking University as a distinguished visiting professor of Sino-American relations. Mendis[…]
Threat of unexploded bombs exists with Attapeu Dam collapse recovery
By Legacies of War Washington, D.C. (Aug. 8, 2018) — A partially constructed hydropower dam collapsed in Attapeu province in Laos on July 23, 2018, killing at least 30 people.[…]
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Weekend protest over special economic zones, cyber security law in Vietnam
St. Paul, Minn. (July 5, 2018) — Minnesotans of Vietnam origin are staging a rally in support of the people of Vietnam against special economic zones and a new cyber-security[…]
Minnesota-educated professor speaks about US-Sino relations at Peking University
BEIJING (May 11, 2018) — While on a month-long lecture tour of multiple countries in Asia, Prof. Patrick Mendis recently delivered a lecture on “the past and future of Sino-Sri[…]
