Illinois man jailed for life over murder of Chinese graduate student
PEORIA, Ill. (Reuters) – An Illinois man described by prosecutors as obsessed with serial killers was sentenced to life in prison on Thursday for the kidnapping and decapitation of a Chinese graduate student two years ago.Zhidong Wang (C), attorney and spokesman for the Zhang family speaks to reporters with Ronggao Zhang, father of Yingying Zhang, […]
U.S. Targeting of Chinese Scientists Fuels a Brain Drain
It was a big opportunity for a small research university. In 2013, Xin Zhao, a prize-winning Ph.D. from the College of William & Mary, landed venture funding to commercialize some of the school’s patented nanotechnology. Zhao’s startup rented space nearby, hired local graduates and agreed to fund $1 million of new research at the Williamsburg, Virginia, […]
Vietnamese Traditional Craft Village
For a long time, craft villages have been an important element of Vietnamese culture and economy. The existence of these villages could date back thousands of years, as archeologists have unearthed a 3500-year-old large bronze making center in Vĩnh Phúc province of Vietnam (a little west of Hanoi), evidence of a town specialized in bronze […]
1200-year-old lost city of Mahendraparvata discovered in Cambodia
An ancient city, dated 350 years before the famed Angkor Wat, has been discovered by a group of archaeologist from University of Sydney led by a French-born archaeologist. All thanks to the airborne Lidar technology which use light detection and ranging data, 7 days of hard work result in a fashionable and extraordinary discovery. Damien […]
THE ORIGIN OF KHMER NEW YEAR
It’s APRIL.What, why? What’s special about April, you ask me.Of course, April is the month where new year starts.Wait, wait. Why April? Couldn’t it be logical for new year to fall on January which is the first month of the year? Yes, this is perfectly logical. However this is the Gregorian calendar we are using. […]
South Korean political leaders vow to work together to resolve Japan dispute
SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in and leaders of the country’s major political parties vowed on Thursday to work together to resolve a worsening political and economic dispute with Japan. Moon met leaders of five parties to discuss Japan’s recent export restrictions on some high-tech materials used by major South Korean companies, as […]
Johnny Kitagawa: Power, Abuse, and the Japanese Media Omerta
Will the death of Johnny Kitagawa lead to a change of attitude by the Japanese media to the powerful Johnny & Associates talent agency that he formed? Public broadcaster NHK and others this week reported a warning to the company from the Fair Trade Commission over alleged pressure on TV stations to keep members of the boy […]
China and Vietnam in stand-off over Chinese survey ship mission to disputed reef in South China Sea
Chinese and Vietnamese coastguard vessels have been involved in a week-long confrontation over a reef in the South China Sea, risking the biggest clash between the two nations in five years. The stand-off may trigger a wave of anti-China sentiment in Vietnam not seen since 2014, when a Chinese oil rig arrived off the disputed […]
Malaysia seized $240m from Chinese company over pipeline project: Mahathir
Malaysia seized more than 1 billion ringgit ($243.5 million) from a bank account of state-owned China Petroleum Pipeline Engineering (CPP) over incomplete pipeline projects, Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said on Monday. The seizure comes nearly a year after Malaysia suspended two pipeline projects, valued at $2.3 billion, on which CPP was the lead contractor. CPP is a unit […]
I have served in the Air Force and in Congress. People still tell me to ‘go back’ to China.
Ted Lieu, a Democrat, is a U.S. representative from California. I served on active duty in the U.S. Air Force and currently serve in the U.S. House of Representatives. Yet I still experience people telling me to “go back” to China or North Korea or Japan. Like many immigrants, I have learned to brush off this […]