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[…]
Category: International
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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[…]
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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.[…]
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[…]
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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[…]
US food-grade soybeans ship to Cambodia and Myanmar for first full-scale trials
FARGO, N.D. (March 2, 2018) — Food companies in Myanmar and Cambodia will soon receive their first shipments of U.S. food-grade soybeans loaded this week in Fargo, creating new opportunities[…]
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Peace Corps to re-establish Sri Lanka program
COLOMBO (Feb. 26, 2018) — Sheila Crowley, acting director of the U.S. Peace Corps, and Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Tilak Marapana signed a new bilateral agreement to re-establish a Peace Corps[…]
China rule on security assessment of new technologies for online news services is about maintaining control
Authors: Sarah ZhaoSally QinStephanie Sun Faegre Baker Daniels Minneapolis / Beijing (Nov. 20, 2017) — China has promulgated a series of implementation rules and guidelines after the Cybersecurity Law of[…]
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Gabbard calls for diplomatic solution with North Korea
Honolulu, HI (Dec. 1, 2017) — U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (HI-2) on Friday called for a diplomatic solution with Kim Jong Un, chairman of the Workers’ Party of Korea and[…]
American Sinologist is inaugural speaker at Hong Kong University lecture series
Hong Kong (Oct. 17, 2017) — Sino-American policy expert Patrick Mendis, Ph.D., recently addressed the inaugural Belt & Road Lecture at the Faculty of Education in the Hong Kong University.[…]
