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WASHINGTON, D.C. (Sept. 24, 2020) — Legislation introduced in the U.S. Senate on Thursday would authorize funding for humanitarian assistance programs, including for the clearance of unexploded ordnance and other[…]
Organizations To Examine CBP’s Enforcement, Treatment, and Denial of Admissions to International Students WASHINGTON, D.C. (Aug. 10, 2020) — Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC (Advancing Justice | AAJC) and Asian[…]
By Emerson De-Yi Zhou TAIPEI – As trade war and the South China Sea tensions between Washington and Beijing are intensifying amid Covid-19, the “American betrayal” in 1919 at the[…]
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)[…]
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[…]
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[…]
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”[…]
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[…]
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[…]
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[…]
